For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
To nail down Sunday’s media spin, we take you back to the chaotic southern border and the continuous, unchecked flow of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States – and the Biden administration’s desperate attempts to first convince us that it wasn’t happening, and then that if it was happening, it was all Republicans’ (read: Trump’s) fault.
It was Jennifer Palmieri — who previously worked for both former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — who said the words aloud on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” telling guest host Michael Steele that President Joe Biden had “done more to secure the border than any other president.”
She went on to claim that “Congress has not followed up because Trump said they should not” and argue that Biden’s recent executive order — which expands DACA and offers legal status to the immigrant spouses of American citizens — “Compare that to Trump who tried to separate families and not solve the problem.”
.@jmpalmieri on Biden’s immigration record: “[Joe Biden] has done more to secure the border than any other president and Congress has not followed up because Trump said they should not… Compare that to Trump who tried to separate families and not solve the problem.” pic.twitter.com/PWQidf7RER
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) June 23, 2024
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) also blamed Trump during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” telling anchor Shannon Bream that Biden had used his State of the Union address earlier this year to petition Trump directly to cooperate with legislation aimed at securing the border instead of trying to “block” it.
“Every state is now a border state,” Bream said, adding, “So how does the buck not stop with the president on this issue?”
“Shannon, President Biden, in his state of the union address this year extended his hand to former president Trump and said instead of blocking legislation, instead of campaigning against legislation that I believe would have passed if it had gotten to the floor, work with me. Let’s solve this problem,” Coons said.
Bream pushed back, pointing out that the failed bipartisan border deal would not have done anything to stop the recent rapes and murders allegedly committed by illegal aliens who crossed the border since Biden became president.
“You can’t assume that every person seeking asylum in this country is going to commit a crime,” Coons protested.
“It only matters that it’s one, when it’s an American life,” Bream argued.
WATCH: @ChrisCoons on the border crisis and President Biden’s attacks on the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/p2PirCeuOR
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) June 23, 2024
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also joined Bream to discuss the border, but he painted a very different picture of Biden’s impact on the chaotic scene that has played out there since he took office and began systematically dismantling Trump’s border security measures.
Graham referenced the imminent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, explaining that if the court ruled against Trump — and said that presidents did not have blanket immunity — it could raise issues for Biden.
“On and on and on, all of these women who’ve been raped and murdered have one thing in common: The people that killed them, raped them, and murdered them were in our custody and let go, I think illegally. So Joe Biden better hope and pray there’s presidential immunity, because when he allowed the killer of Laken Riley to be released on parole because of ‘lack of capacity,’ I think he’s subject not only lawsuit, but criminal prosecution, if there’s not presidential immunity,” Graham said.
WATCH: @LindseyGrahamSC on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congress and the crisis on the border. pic.twitter.com/LrX86ESxfN
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) June 23, 2024
A report on ABC News’ “This Week” noted that the Biden administration had taken some actions but the problem was far from solved: “While Biden’s announcement provides new protections for immigrants already living in the U.S., it comes just two weeks after a separate executive order that severely limited asylum claims for those looking to enter the country.”
“While Biden’s announcement provides new protections for immigrants already living in the U.S., it comes just two weeks after a separate executive order that severely limited asylum claims for those looking to enter the country.” @MattRiversABC has more: https://t.co/PdWSoDvBAD pic.twitter.com/fb67ofV42T
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 23, 2024
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) responded by … blaming Trump, complaining just as Sen. Coons had — that he had pushed congressional Republicans to block the bipartisan border bill. She also defended Biden, saying that he “is using the tools available to him to try to do as much as he can.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren pushes congressional Republicans for a comprehensive deal on immigration after a bill was blocked earlier this year by former Pres. Trump.
“Right now, Joe Biden is using the tools available to him to try to do as much as he can.” https://t.co/IIiMPdoYLr pic.twitter.com/2t6jJbSmyO
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 23, 2024
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell joined anchor Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” and he suggested that a change in focus might be part of the reason for recent reports indicating that multiple people on terror watch lists and with connections to terrorist groups had made it across the border and into the country without detection.
“We’ve shifted resources from the counterterrorism community to the China community,” Morell said, adding that he believed it was at least part of the reason intelligence at the southern border was “under-resourced.”
“We’ve shifted resources from the counterterrorism community to the China community,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell says, noting that it’s contributed to the “under-resourced” intelligence behind vetting and terror watch lists at the U.S. southern border.
“It’s the… pic.twitter.com/a77I6dJSF4
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 23, 2024
Not one of them, save Graham, pointed to the fact that Biden had spent his first several days in office taking Trump’s border security measures apart — and then spent the next two years claiming that the unfolding crisis at the border was not a crisis until it was an unmitigated disaster, at which point he blamed Trump and Republicans in Congress.
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