On Wednesday’s Morning Edition (hours before Charlie Kirk’s assassination), co-host Steve Inskeep conducted a puffball interview with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker at the National Museum of Mexican Art, allowing the Democrat to trash Trump as a horrible racist breaking all the laws.
The YouTube video is headlined:
JB Pritzker on “Operation Midway Blitz” and what he calls Trump’s “racist ends”
The graphic promoting the video on YouTube features Pritzker wildly claiming Trump wants people to think "every person that's here that's not born in the United States is a criminal." That's plainly false. Millions of legal immigrants aren't law-breakers. Foreign-born people on visas aren't law-breakers. The illegal aliens are the law-breakers. This is the fuller exchange of falsehood:
STEVE INSKEEP: We're talking here about immigration, also talking about crime. Do you see the president as combining the two issues or ideas?
PRITZKER: Clearly, he -- his ends are racist ends. So he is conflating the two because he wants people to think that every person that's here that's not born in the United States is a criminal. That is kind of the veil that he's put over this entire endeavor of deporting people who are immigrants. Yes, somebody who has committed a crime who is undocumented, I think, we ought to grab and kick out of the country. That's not - violent criminals should not be allowed to stay if they're undocumented. I've said that many, many times. But the idea that every immigrant is a criminal is ridiculous.
Like many Democrats, Pritzker insists illegal aliens are "our people." He said "All I can say is that they ought to understand that Chicago's a place that's going to protect its people." And: "But as we know, the vast majority of the people that they detain are not criminals. They're actually just people who live here in Illinois."
It's Trump he claims is "breaking the law consistently." Plus he said "you've got federal ICE agents wearing masks, grabbing people off the street who speak with an accent or might be brown or Black and disappearing them."
Speaking of false accusations, earlier came the Nazi comparisons:
PRITZKER: How do you prove to somebody that you're a U.S. citizen? Your accent? The color of your skin? That's not the country we live in. You know, you shouldn't have to walk around with papers, the way that they did in the early days of Nazi Germany, to prove that you belong and that you're not one of them.
INSKEEP: The governor, who's Jewish, talked of helping to build a Holocaust museum and said he needed to stand up even at the risk of retribution. He faces critics who also make passionate claims.
So comparing Team Trump to the Nazis is "passionate," but not in any way false. If you're Jewish, you can make Nazi smears? At least Inskeep mentioned that Trump is highlighting the case of Katie Abraham, a college student killed in a drunk-driving accident in Urbana, Illinois caused by an illegal alien. He asked Pritzker "what is your response to that?" The governor just stated criminals should be found, but most illegals were not criminals.
NPR is much more likely to interview Democrats than Republicans, and they're very happy to give the Democrats free rein to spread the worst smears and just call them "passionate." It's a good thing the Republicans finally cut the taxpayer subsidies for this partisan network.
