JOURNALISM! Andrea Mitchell pushes 'out-of-context' BS about Trump's illegal immigration truth

Doug P. | 6:12 PM on May 16, 2018

Speaking about illegal immigration and MS-13 today, President Trump made this comment:

“These aren’t people. These are animals,” Trump says in response to a question about the MS-13 gang during his roundtable on sanctuary cities. “… because of the weak laws, they come in fast” https://t.co/FfO3D5ug97

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 16, 2018

Trump discussing MS-13, “you wouldn’t believe how bad some of these people are. These aren’t people — they’re animals.” https://t.co/xjH8MJoqj9

— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) May 16, 2018

MS-13 are “animals,” Trump said. Got that? In helping explain California Gov. Jerry Brown’s criticism of Trump, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell did a solid for the anti-Trump Resistance when translating what the president actually said:

? @realDonaldTrump is lying on immigration, lying about crime and lying about the laws of CA. Flying in a dozen Republican politicians to flatter him and praise his reckless policies changes nothing. We, the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the world, are not impressed.

— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) May 16, 2018

A tough take down by the California governor after @realDonaldTrump calls people trying to get into the country "animals" not people. https://t.co/LPKiHPJaWZ

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) May 16, 2018

Oh really?

That’s not what he said & not even remotely close to the context. The animals comment was in response to concerns about MS-13. Backing MS-13 over Trump isn’t the media narrative road I’d go down but this is going to be another rake so have at it https://t.co/XBMhVIb4ww

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 16, 2018