Donald Trump Went Off-Script to Lie About Where the Orlando Shooter Was Born
Donald Trump today veered off his scripted remarks to briefly lie about where the Orlando shooter was born in an apparent effort to bolster his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country.
Trump gave a press conference Monday afternoon, aided by a teleprompter, at the Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Almost immediately, he suggested the suspected killer, Omar Mateen, could have been prevented from entering the country.
“The killer, whose name I will not use or ever say, was born in Afghan, of Afghan parents, who immigrated to the United States,” Trump said during a press conference Monday afternoon. “The only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here.”
A compelling argument, but for the fact that Mateen was born in New York—just like Donald Trump.
So how did such a blatant lie make it into his scripted speech? Well, according to a copy of his remarks, Trump ad-libbed the line:
A good point—the only reason Donald Trump is in America is because we allowed his family to come here, too. Something to think about.