![]() They brought to the speech as their guests two women, Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz, who were illegal immigrants when they worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. ![]() The big picture will cost him support with the middle-class voters who want him to play by the rules just like they do.”ĭemocratic members of Congress began highlighting the illegal hires during the president’s State of the Union address. “His employment of immigrants is simply a small part of a bigger picture. His illegal use of immigrants is just another example of Trump saying one thing and doing another, just like his embrace of traditional values in contrast to his extramarital affairs,” he said. Trump’s credibility and try to puncture his Rust Belt base, said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. They should expect to hear more about the illegal hires as Democrats make it part of their assault on Mr. His supporters said he either was not responsible for front-line hiring decisions or that employing illegal immigrants is a common and near-unavoidable practice in America’s hospitality and construction industries. In interviews with Trump voters throughout Pennsylvania, the president got the benefit of the doubt. “He is fighting his ass off for the wall,” said Mr. Trump nevertheless was keeping his promises, including combating illegal immigration. Trump next year, saying he was more excited about it than in 2016 because Mr. Skidmore, who cites stopping illegal immigration as a top concern. “That’s a little upsetting, to be honest with you,” said Mr. “I’m sure it is just cheap labor,” said Butch Skidmore, 40, a Trump voter and former Navy SEAL who was tossing back a beer at the bar in the Republican Club of Hanover.īut he bristled at the reports of widespread hiring of illegal immigrants as housekeepers, groundskeepers and laborers at Trump golf clubs and resorts, as well as a Washington Post report detailing how the president’s son Eric Trump employed an illegal immigrant as the caretaker of his private hunting retreat. Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.Now she, like other Trump voters across this crucial 2020 battleground state, struggled to excuse the president. Bush in terms of the percentage of female appointments,” the Washington Post’s fact-checkers determined, awarding Lara Trump’s claim “ four Pinocchios.” In fact, he currently lags behind Obama and Clinton and possibly George W. “Under no metric has Trump appointed more women than any previous president. Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and the Republican National Committee both claimed around that time that Trump had appointed record numbers of women in his administration. Of the 23 people currently listed on the White House website Cabinet list, just four are female.Īccording to a 2018 analysis in The Atlantic, Trump appointed twice as many men as women over the first two years of his tenure - while women comprised 47% of the national workforce and 43% of the executive branch staff. Trump’s Cabinet, for example, has been almost entirely men from the beginning. Unlike Biden’s highly diverse hires so far, Trump’s administration was largely dominated by white men. The Post quickly debunked McEnany’s false claims, noting that Trump’s team includes prominent men, such as deputy press secretary Judd Deere, deputy communications director Brian Morganstern, and vice presidential press secretary Devin O’Malley. These women include communications director Kate Bedingfield, press secretary Jennifer Psaki, principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, deputy communications director Pili Tobar, vice presidential communications director Ashley Etienne, vice presidential chief spokesperson Symone Sanders, and communications director for the first lady Elizabeth E. ![]() She was responding to a Washington Post report that President-elect Joe Biden has selected seven women to be his top communications staff for his incoming administration. ![]() “The completely DISCREDITED once again reveals their blinding propagandist Fake News proclivities Downwards arrow,” she added. “President already has an ALL FEMALE Senior White House Press Team,” Kayleigh McEnany tweeted, claiming that Vice President Mike Pence, first lady Melania Trump, and second lady Karen Pence do as well. ![]() The outgoing White House press secretary falsely claimed on Sunday that Donald Trump has an “ALL FEMALE” senior communications team. ![]()
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