PolitiFact may have teamed up with PBS for the remainder of the 2024 election cycle, but perhaps they should be checking PBS News Hour instead because on Friday, host Amna Nawaz falsely claimed Donald Trump was using “more dangerous, kind of, vicious language” in targeting “black and brown immigrants” than he was in 2016.
Recapping Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Nawaz declared to New York Times columnist David Brooks, “The thing that struck me about — that was different this year was particularly on illegal immigration. There was much more dangerous, kind of, vicious language, targeting really black and brown immigrants, talking about them carrying disease and attacking women and stealing jobs.”
That’s simply wrong. Here’s what Trump actually said, “And you know who's being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country, the black population and the Hispanic population because they're taking the jobs from our black population, our Hispanic population, and they're also taking them from unions. The unions are suffering because of it.”
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