On Feb 10 and 11, the Lincoln Project played an advert blaming Trump for killing Biden’s bipartisan border deal in Mar-a-Lago and South Carolina. Based on the former president’s subsequent late-night rant on Truth Social, the ad really got to him.
Called out
“Donald Trump doesn’t care if your family’s safety or the lives of law enforcement officers are in the balance,” a voiceover said in the ad. “He’s on the side of the cartels, coyotes, and child traffickers.”
Directly responsible
The ad highlighted Trump’s role in killing Biden’s border deal, which was negotiated with several key Republicans and included major concessions to conservative demands on immigration. Trump repeatedly urged Republicans to vote against the deal, which they eventually did.
Comparison
“Joe Biden is ready to protect America’s southern border,” the ad continued. “There’s only one problem” — at this point, the ad cuts to a clip of Biden, who finishes the sentence by saying, “Donald Trump.”
Raging
Trump took to social media to vent about the ad, writing a long, rambling post on Truth Social after midnight on the East Coast. He lashed out at what he called the “Failed Lincoln Project.”
Not happy
“The perverts at the Failed Lincoln Project, who I was told were left leaning RINOS that had lost their way and almost all of their financial support, just did an ad showing a grassy, calm, and peaceful Southern Border, not an Illegal Migrant in sight, explaining what a great job Crooked Joe Biden did in dealing with what has become just one of many Biden inspired, Country threatening, problems facing the United States today,” Trump wrote.
Partly true
On Feb 4, videos went viral on X showing participants in the “Take Back Our Border” convoy expressing confusion at the distinct lack of chaos at the border. “They expected to see lines of immigrants lined up wanting entry and many trying to cross over outside the normal ports of entry,” Ford News wrote on X. “They say this isn’t happening at all.”
Empty spaces
“In fact,” Ford News continued, “they aren’t seeing lines at all, no one crossing the border.… Some aren’t even sure now why they are there.”
Rant continues
The Lincoln Project also “didn’t happen to mention anything about the 18,000,000 Illegal Aliens that will have invaded our Country, many from prisons and mental institutions, by the end of the failed Biden Administration,” Trump wrote in his Truth Social rant.
Fact check
In fact, as of 2021, there are about 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the US in total. Between 2007 and 2021, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the country decreased by 1.75 million, according to the Pew Research Center.
Another fact check
According to the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security removed “a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump DHS did over its last two years. Moreover, migrants were more likely to be released after a border arrest under President Trump than under President Biden.”
Rage on
“Nor did [the Lincoln Project] talk about the drugs pouring into the USA in amounts so large that no one, just three years ago, would have thought it possible,” Trump continued.
Another fact check
According to the National Immigration Forum, in 2022, 88% of fentanyl trafficking offenders were US citizens. In an April 2023 report, Third Way revealed that “just 0.02% of people arrested by Border Patrol for illegally crossing possessed fentanyl.”
Finishing off
“Watch what happens to these Failed Lincoln Project screwballs!” Trump ended his rant.
Response
The co-founder of Project Lincoln, Rick Wilson, responded to Trump with a video calling the former president a “weak, nihilistic weirdo.”
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