even most trump voters must know the first definition given for a word is the PREFERRED definition. so thanks for proving how trump lied about a bunch of poor people walking slowly across mexico towards our border to legally apply for asylum was an invasion. he clearly meant an invasion as the definition you provided (thanks, again), as he said they were a threat to our national security, it was a crisis, and a national emergency that needed troops to be sent down to manage and control.
The
white nationalist screed by the suspect in the El Paso shooting was indeed posted in one of the those dark corners of the web: the
extremist message board 8chan.
But the language used by the alleged killer replicates language used by Trump, and his re-election campaign, not in any obscure forum but on his official Facebook and
Twitter pages. The second sentence of the manifesto – “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” –
echoes white nationalist rhetoric falsely asserting that people of Latino or Hispanic descent represent an “invasion” in the United States. Trump has used similar language on numerous occasions.
Trump’s campaign has used the word “invasion” to describe migrants seeking entry at the US-Mexico border in 2,199 Facebook ads since January, according to a Guardian analysis of Facebook’s political ad archive. Those ads have been viewed between 1,059,000 and 5,559,801 times by
Facebook users and cost the Trump campaign between $7,900 and $241,601 to promote. (Facebook reports spending and performance of ads as a range.)
There are dozens of variations on the video clips in each ad, but just two variants of the copy.
The first version reads in part: “The crisis at the Southern Border is even worse than most understand. I have taken MULTIPLE trips to the border to show the true invasion happening but the Democrats and the Fake News Media just won’t listen. THE TIME IS NOW. WE NEED TO SECURE OUR BORDER! Nancy and Chuck have made it clear that they don’t want to know your opinions on how to keep America safe. They don’t want to know why you want the wall. But I do.”
The second version of ad copy reads in part: “We have an INVASION! So we are BUILDING THE WALL to STOP IT. Dems will sue us. But we want a SAFE COUNTRY! It’s CRITICAL that we STOP THE INVASION. Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have not negotiated in good faith to fund a wall at our Southern Border, proving that OBSTRUCTION is far more important to them than YOUR SAFETY. I cannot allow America’s safety and security to be put at risk any longer. We need the wall, and I must put AMERICA FIRST!”
These ads ran with various short videos that largely used dark and foreboding music over dark and moody images, including a series that featured pixelated images of concertina wire against a dark sky, with the slogan: “America’s safety is at risk. This is a national emergency.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/05/trump-internet-facebook-ads-racism-immigrant-invasion
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