As if we needed more proof the narrative is more important than the truth regarding politicians.
On September 20, 2021, The El Paso Times released images of border patrol agents on horses supposedly whipping Haitian migrants at the border.
The left lost their minds over the pictures; even those unfamiliar with horse riding could tell the agents did not whip anyone.
Four days later, President Joe Biden unleashed anger at the photos, promising the agents would pay for their actions.
Hours later, Marsha Espinosa, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary of public affairs, alerted Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other DHS officials that pictures of border patrol supposedly whipping Haitian migrants were not true.
Over two hours later, Mayorkas did not acknowledge the truth or push back against Biden’s speech at a press conference. Instead, Mayorkas described the pictures as “horrifying.”
Mayorkas said: “Our nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are. We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”
The guy never mentioned the fact that the photographer said he did not witness any whipping. Mayorkas admitted he made a statement before he saw the pictures:
Mayorkas did not make any mention of the new information from the photographer at the conference. He was asked about his initial remarks and said: “I made the statements without having seen the images.””I saw the images on the flight back, and I made the statement that I did with respect to what those images suggested,” he said.He was then asked about the discrepancy between the photographer’s claims about no whipping being witnessed and the president’s statement.”The horses have long reins, and the image in the photograph that we all saw, and that horrified the nation, raised serious questions about what…occurred and as I stated quite clearly, it conjured up images of what has occurred in the past,” he said.”There’s also a question of how one uses the horse and how one interacts with individuals with the horse,” he said. “And so I’m going to let the investigation run its course.
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