It's only been a day since Politifact's brilliant fact-checking of Republican candidate Donald Trump's first campaign ad called out the misrepresentation of imagery from Morocco as America's southern border.
But the presidential hopeful is apparently (still) not wasting any time fretting about pesky fact-checks. Just hours after Politifact released the story, the Trump campaign retorted, saying the move was "intenional." If mainstream media doesn't understand that, well, that wasn't Trump's problem.
In other words:
Here's the statement:
It was "intentional". New official statement from the Trump campaign: pic.twitter.com/uPzaG5zL2l
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 4, 2016
It appears that according to the Trump campaign, showing border images of a completely different site and year is the best way to illustrate the incomprehensible danger immigrants pose to the US.
This, of course, is also despite the fact that in 2015, the US actually saw anegative trendof migrants coming across the southern border with Mexico, with last year seeing more Mexicans returning to their home country than coming to America, according to a Pew study.
Meanwhile, Trump's Muslim comments have managed to seep into the headlines twice before the first week of 2016 has even ended, and somehow, almost incomprehensibly, that doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
