Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau finally responded to his now infamous deleted tweet that incorrectly labeled photos from 2014 as occurring in the present day, saying he should’ve checked the date first but others journos made the same mistake so ¯_(ツ)_/¯:
1. I tweeted a story that multiple journalists were posting. My mistake for not checking the date first. A few minutes later, when I realized my error, I deleted the tweet and immediately tweeted the correct info and date of the picture.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
But this description of what he did is a little too self-serving. He went from criticizing the images to defending Obama for doing the best he could under the circumstances:
2. In 2014, when the Obama Administration dealt with an influx of unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border, fleeing violence from Central America, the agencies charged with sheltering the children were overwhelmed, and the conditions were often atrocious.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
And he’s STILL defending it:
3. That’s why the government tried to move those children out of those shelters as fast as humanly possible and connect them with their parents, most of whom were already in the United States. This happened in more than 80% of cases.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
4. To learn more about what happened during the 2014 crisis, listen to this excellent interview with Cecilia Munoz, who helped lead Obama’s immigration policy: https://t.co/7iETBaXUPU
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
And as we’ve told you earlier today, what Trump is doing is not “COMPLETELY” different It’s only slightly different as thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants were separated from their parents during the Obama years:
5. What the Trump Administration is doing right now is COMPLETELY different. Parents and children are showing up at the border – together – to flee from violence in Central America. And Trump’s response is to tear the children away from their parents – some as young as 18 months.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
Trump’s policy of separating families at the time of arrest, and people can disagree on it, is to try to prevent future illegal immigrants from traveling to the U.S. in fruitless quest for citizenship. The same thing happened during the Obama years, except back then it was hoped that housing families together in detention centers would act as a deterrent:
6. This policy is new, cruel, and unprecedented. It was not an Obama policy. It was not a Bush policy. It was not a Clinton policy. That is a fact. And that is what all of us – Democrats and Republicans – should want changed as soon as humanly possible.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
DHS chief Jeh Johnson evern called the policy a deterrent in public:
ok. https://t.co/FSDjqquKkp pic.twitter.com/8voU3Sa365
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 27, 2018
“We simply cannot have a situation where if you cross the border and are apprehended, you can count on being escorted to the nearest bus station.” — Jeh Johnson 2015 https://t.co/uFopU4CdJ0 https://t.co/5qOLj6h3eP
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 25, 2018
Favreau ended with a plea to fix our broken immigration system, which could get done if only Dems would give Trump funding for the wall (which will never be built anyway and any funds will just be used to fix or improve the existing fence):
7. Our immigration system has been broken and, in many cases, inhumane, for decades. Democrats and some Republicans in the Senate want to fix that. Most Republicans and Donald Trump do not want to fix that. That is the difference.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
8. Democrats want to protect dreamers from deportation, and a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. We want to keep families together. Trump and the Republicans do not. They’re perpetrating cruel and inhumane policies, and many are doing it to hold power.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
9. If you want to help fix our immigration system, vote for candidates in favor of citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in our country. Vote out politicians who don’t.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
10. And if you want to support the many lawyers and activists who are helping keep parents and children together RIGHT NOW, donate to these groups, who’ve already raised $75k over the weekend: https://t.co/1CoaqodIl5
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
11. I’m always happy to talk to friends on the left who are upset with Obama’s immigration policies – some of which I’ll defend, some of which I won’t. I won’t be responding to bad faith Trump fanatics who want to perpetuate inhumane policies, even the ones posing as journalists.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 29, 2018
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Related:
Jon Favreau, Shaun King, Linda Sarsour and other libs just committed the greatest self-own in the history of Twitter https://t.co/gDEi2HwwcF
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 27, 2018
Outrageously OUTRAGED! Jon Favreau has a long history of blaming Trump for Obama's immigration FAILS (tweets) https://t.co/IW3OFj3Heb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 28, 2018
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