Clarence Page: Behind the 'Lie of the Year' about Haitian immigrants are some bitter truths

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : For Vance and Trump, the Haitians were a convenient, symbolism-laden group to raise fear and suspicions about immigration and border security reform.
57% : "So it was a lie, but it was OK because Vance and Trump needed anti-immigrant hysteria front and center in election coverage.
37% : Accusing Haitian immigrants in Springfield of eating pets had become a Republican talking point before Trump mentioned it in the debate.
32% : As I often point out when political arguments break out at my own home, everyone is entitled to have their own wrong opinion.
26% : An astonished-looking Harris gave an incredulous laugh, but the line was not a new one for Trump and his MAGA movement supporters, including his running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance, whom PolitiFact co-credited for the Lie of the Year.
18% : Through all the navel-gazing, port-mortems and autopsies, the corporate media has learned nothing about why Donald Trump is president and nobody trusts them."
18% : But let's get back to Housman's conceit about "why Donald Trump is president."
12% : Trump and Vance's lie, Housman offers, "is the equivalent of a speck of dirt sitting at the base of a mountain that is one of the biggest scandals in American political history: the lie that Joe Biden was acting as president in 2024 and was mentally capable of serving another 4 years.

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