On Tuesday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accused Donald Trump of using the death of an 11-year-old boy in Springfield, Ohio as a "political prop." We'll present the facts, and ask you: who is using that tragic death as a political prop: Donald Trump, or Joe Scarborough and the New York Times? As per this article, on August 22nd of this year: "Hermanio Joseph, 36, a Haitian immigrant who did not have a valid driver’s license when he crossed over the center line into the oncoming lane on state Route 41, striking a Northwestern school bus with his 2010 Honda Odyssey. The bus flipped on its top." Aiden Clark, aged 11, was killed, and dozens of other children on the bus were injured. Joseph was one of about 20,000 Haitian migrants who have flooded into Springfield in recent times, radically transforming the life of the town.  Among other things, there has been a rash of traffic accidents in the town. As per this article: "Longtime residents say the immigrants are getting temporary driving permits without having to learn how to drive safely in the US — or even knowing how to drive at all. There must be eight to 10 accidents a day here,” one resident who asked not to be named told The Post. I’ve seen cars drive up into buildings and onto sidewalks. I believe everyone deserves help, but we shouldn’t be providing cars and licenses until people know how to drive here safely.” Aiden wasn't the only Springfield resident to be killed by a Haitian immigrant driver. As per the New York Post article linked above, on December 1, 2023: "A Haitian migrant ran over and killed a 71-year-old grandmother. She was struck so violently that both her socks were left behind on the pavement as her body was thrown across the street. Debris littered the roadway, and clumps of hair were found in the car’s cracked windshield." For reasons that the prosecutors didn't disclose, the Haitian driver wasn't charged. Hermanio Joseph was arrested and charged. He was convicted and sentenced to a prison term of 9.5-13 years for "first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter and fourth-degree felony vehicular homicide." Scarborough accused Trump and JD Vance of using Aiden as a "political prop" because rather than saying that Joseph was convicted of "manslaughter" and "homicide," as he was, they said that Joseph committed "murder. " One week before the election, the New York Times ran an article on Aiden's death. The subtitle: "After Aiden Clark was killed in a school bus accident in Springfield, Ohio, his death inspired conspiracy theories, campaign lies and  anti-immigrant hate." Not only did the Times place the story on the front page, it devoted 5,300 words to it. That's the equivalent of about 20 book pages. Today's Morning Joe devoted a segment to the matter. Mika Brzezinski held the front page story, with its photo of the grieving parents, up to the camera. Scarborough twice instructed her not to take it down: "Hold that up, Mika . . . Hold -- keep that up." So you be the judge: who is using the death of Aiden Clark as a "political prop": Donald Trump, or Joe Scarborough and the New York Times? Note: Scarborough analogized Trump's handling of the Springfield story to the situation in which Trump had accused Scarborough, during his days as a congressman, of having had an affair with an aide and being responsible for her death. Scarborough said that Trump persisted in his allegations even after the widowed husband of the woman asked him to desist because it was causing continuing grief for him and the woman's parents. Scarborough introduced the matter by claiming that Trump's accusation "is not personal to me," but only to the woman's family. Raise your hand if you believe Scarborough. For that matter, wouldn't it be very strange if Scarborough didn't take being accused of adultery and homicide personally? Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 10/28/24 6:07 am EDT MIKE BARNICLE: The front page of the New York Times today, back to Springfield, Ohio, has a story about the parents of Aiden Clark, an 11-year-old child, who died in a school bus accident when his school bus was hit by a Haitian immigrant who was here legally. And both Donald Trump and JD Vance have decided to call it a murder. And they call this young boy's life and death a murder. And the torture that his parents have endured and been put through, since the incident occurred several months ago, is horrendous. It has changed and altered and damaged the lives of the living. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: This is them sitting with their little boy's blanket, Joe. JOE SCARBOROUGH: And I, I, I -- hold that up, Mika. I can't imagine the pain those parents are going through. And then to watch their son, their child, used as a political prop, to be lied about. Making the pain worse.  And hold -- keep that up.  Because this is not personal to me. But this is personal to people I know. When Donald Trump decided to attack me because he didn't like my Covid coverage, and he lied about a woman who worked in my office, and claimed that we were involved, and, and that I had her killed. And her husband, the widowed husband, begged him to stop lying because of the excruciating pain that it put her parents through and put him through. The fact that he had not been able to move on for 20 years, 25years, because of the lies. They could not, they could not find rest or peace. And Donald Trump didn't care. He just kept doing it.

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The documentary both evokes empathy for the wave of immigrants flooding into the country and outrage at the greed, corruption, and government excess that has kept the roiling tragedy alive so long.Truth socialThe screening attracted an eclectic group of supporters, including several MMA fighters, social media influencers, and Donald Trump’s second wife.MMA legend Tito Ortiz savaged the media for making a movie like "Line in the Sand" necessary. The narratives in the film stand in stark relief to border press coverage.“The mainstream media has been telling a lie for such a long time, and it's making people believe it. This is Psychology 101. This is, if you tell somebody a lie long enough, they think it's the truth. And, I mean, my mother's a victim of it herself,” Ortiz said. “She's a lifelong Democrat. I try to make her believe into the truth, but she believes what she sees on mainstream media.”The outspoken patriot said it’s crushing to watch the current administration turn his country from the land of opportunity to a free lunch free-for-all. “What [O’Keefe] has done is expose what is really happening and what’s going on in this country, and it’s heartbreaking for me,” he said.Evading capture"Line in the Sand" comes to us with an assist from Carlson, who created a new platform from scratch following his abrupt Fox News exit. This DIY strategy is something actress Sam Sorbo knows all about. Sorbo Studios, the production company she formed with husband/actor Kevin Sorbo, allows the canceled couple to make movies on their own terms.Such radical independence is "even more important these days because the media has so been captured,” Sorbo said. “That's a term that's new for us, but it's a term that applies now. And so what they're doing, branching out on their own in a hostile environment, even, is so difficult. And that's why I'm here supporting them.”Sorbo also praised "Line in the Sand" for opposing the Biden administration’s open-border policies.“We're left with millions of people here in the country illegally, people we don't know, people who have not been vetted, and an extraordinary surge in child sex trafficking that is untold,” she said.Risky businessO’Keefe, who lovingly steered his parents down the red carpet, called the documentary a “long-form” version of his undercover stings. He added that he hopes to remind Americans of the vital importance of genuine investigative journalism, something too few news outlets are willing to invest in.“I think that there really isn't any investigative journalism really out there. There's a lot of podcasts, but not a lot of journalism. It's very expensive. It's very risky, a lot of liability associated, a lot of danger associated with it,” said O’Keefe, who put his own safety on the line to capture the footage found in "Line in the Sand."“You don't see news correspondents really going to Mexico. You see some YouTubers ride the train, but we rode La Bestia, and you'll see that in the film.”The train in question lets illegal immigrants hop aboard and travel through Mexico toward the U.S. border.Ex-factorMarla Maples, visiting an old haunt from her days as Trump’s wife, said "Line in the Sand" puts the emphasis where it belongs: on the vulnerable children most affected by the border chaos, ripped away from their families or plunged into the nightmare of human trafficking.The film’s mid-section explores this frightening reality.It’s why she went back to Mar-a-Lago on a muggy fall day. She also defended her former husband from a non-stop Hitler comparisons.I've known Donald Trump since I was 20 years old. We went to church. His daughter converted to Judaism. He has Jewish children. I study from the Torah, and I study the teachings of Christ. He's always supported that. For my daughter's wedding, we did a Torah session. We did a Shabbat here at the wedding for all those that were Jewish and supported all of that. So again, it's a false narrative to try and take away his ability to help America and help the people.Joy in the fightSinger Joy Villa had Trump’s back virtually from the jump. And she stood there mostly alone, at least in celebrity circles.“When I came out [as a Trump supporter], nobody was out in a very public way at the Grammys,” she recalled. “I was fed up. I felt like Madonna can come out and say, ‘I'm gonna wear a pussy hat and let's kill the president.’“And I'm like, ‘Wait. I live in Hollywood and I'm pro-Trump. Why am I not represented?’ And everyone loves to fight for, oh, black rights, Latino rights, which I'm black and Latino,” she said. “And it's not about that. It's about what do we think. Not just how we look.”That was then. These days, figures as far afield as Dr. Phil and Dennis Quaid are openly supporting the former (and future?) president.“Now we have an outpouring of support for Donald Trump in the public eye. It's incredible,” she said.That matters in her eyes.“There's really good people out there who are feeling like they can't speak up or they'll fear for their lives, their livelihood, their jobs, all of that,” she said. “So when celebrities do speak up ... it makes the little guy less afraid.”

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