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Judi Lynn

(160,695 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:31 PM Jun 2018

Mike Huckabee tweets photo comparing Nancy Pelosi's campaign staff to MS-13 gang members

Source: Washington Post


By David Weigel and Amy B Wang
June 23 at 4:51 PM

Hours before Mike Huckabee lamented the treatment of his daughter at a Virginia restaurant, the former Arkansas governor tweeted a photo Saturday morning of a group of tattooed gang members and suggested they made up Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s campaign committee to “take back” the House of Representatives.

The false implication was clear: Huckabee was another of many Republicans once again trying to stick the House minority leader with the image of an MS-13 gang sympathizer.

“Trump and his surrogates will continue to repeat blatantly false attacks as long as the media continues to take the bait and print them,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill told The Washington Post.

The origins of this line of attack against Pelosi were a May 16 roundtable President Trump held on immigration and crime, where Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims bemoaned California state laws that were hampering police work.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/23/mike-huckabee-tweets-photo-comparing-nancy-pelosis-campaign-staff-to-ms-13-gang-members/

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George II

(67,782 posts)
1. Proving again there's no limit to how low they can go.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:38 PM
Jun 2018

Instead of stupid, insulting pictures he should be giving his daughter a talking to about how to be a nicer person.

dameatball

(7,411 posts)
2. This should give us pause as to how many more turds are ready to jump into the punchbowl
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:45 PM
Jun 2018

once we get rid of Trump. But let's just deal with one turd at a time. To think that at one point, Huckabee was considered a viable presidential candidate for the GOP.

This is gonna be a long bumpy ride folks. Get ready. Show up! Vote!

BigmanPigman

(51,674 posts)
3. Gee, Sarah resembles her idiot father more with each passing day.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jun 2018

Soon we will only be able to tell who is who by checking to see which ass is wearing pearls.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,514 posts)
4. You see kids. This right here is what happens
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:07 PM
Jun 2018

when you limit your gene pool to your cousins and extended family.


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axm

(91 posts)
13. Huck Fuckabee!
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:22 PM
Jun 2018

and his vapid liar of a daughter too!

They may be the worst family in America, besides the Trumps.

Midnight Writer

(21,878 posts)
17. Funny. Just today I was reading about Rudy's NY Mayor campaign. He hired phony "gangstas" to
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:31 PM
Jun 2018

make a show of supporting his opponent.

He set up phone banks of black people to call white voters and urge them to vote for the Democrat.

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