Wednesday night on MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes blasted the President, claiming Trump's promotion of “bigoted stereotypes” have caused the “conditions for cruelty” leading to deaths among illegal immigrants in U.S. custody at the southern border.
This was presented in light of the recent deaths of six migrant children. Children who had traveled hundreds of miles with caravans, many without parental care, and lived in harsh conditions with exposure to a variety of diseases.
But it seemed that, in 2019, it wasn’t germs that cause fatal illness, it was instead the “President’s rhetoric.” Despite the old adage about sticks and stones, Hayes insisted that Trump’s words do have lethal power: “There is a body count to the President’s rhetoric now, and unless something changes, it is going to grow.”
Apparently, Hayes was okay with irresponsible rhetoric as long as it's his own.
Here is a transcript of the May 22 rant from Hayes:
All In with Chris Hayes
05/22/19
8:49:35 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS HAYES: We have news tonight about the sixth migrant child to die after being detained by border authorities. This time a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador who died back in September and only now are we learning about her. If you refer to immigrants as an infestation as the President has, if you promote bigoted stereotypes about their unique depravity and talk about them as a nefarious band of infiltrators you will promote the conditions for cruelty as surely as affect follows cause. There is a body count to the President’s rhetoric now, and unless something changes, it is going to grow.
