Thread by @PaulaChertok

GOP & @VP saw this at border in Texas: 400 dirty hungry men in squalid fenced cages. Stench so intense, guards wore masks. When reporters arrived, the men reached out in desperation.

Crisis & dysfunction results when govt prioritizes political propaganda over solving problems.

https://twitter.com/DavidNakamura/status/1149817569668423686

@VP Since this was a PR trip to the border, Pence manages to gaslight like we've come to expect from this Orwellian regime. The images were shocking—400 migrants kept in squalid smelly overcrowded cages, many for 40 days. VP paints THAT as "humane and compassionate care"! 😲😢#inners

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1149782406024638464

Pence's gaslighting about squalid detention camps turns my stomach:

"What we saw today is encouraging… They're getting healthcare, hygiene. We have to put the lie to this 'concentration camp' slander… The Nazis killed people. Our CPB are saving lives."

#Inners #Maddow #AC360

https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1149839393084981249

Poor Pence can't dispute the squalor captured on video, so he attacks media & Dems w/ alternative facts! How Trumpy! He calls @CNN dishonest for not showing the caring camp. Like that erases the haunting images? More likely he wanted video for propaganda, Pence's purpose in WH.

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1149879269373300736

Think Pence was bad about the inhumane immigration detention camp conditions?? @LindseyGrahamSC said, “I don’t care if they have to stay in these facilities for 400 days! We’re not going to let THOSE MEN go that I saw. It would be dangerous” 🤨#RacistGOP vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/l…