By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Her eyes shooting daggers, an unpleasant-looking Hillary Clinton showed during her first presidential debate against Donald Trump that she doesn’t favor knife control the way she wants gun control. That was a repeated revealing glare once the televised combat began at Long Island’s Hofstra University.
Many people in the electronic audience of tens of millions on September 26 gathered at viewing parties across the nation, including here at the Arizona Project Tea Party’s headquarters, where illegal immigration arose as a topic before the show started.
The next morning, media reporter Joe Concha, of The Hill national political news site, noted that debate moderator Lester Holt, of NBC News, didn’t do a very good job either.
Grading Holt’s performance as a C-minus, Concha wrote: “How exactly immigration — a very hot topic over the past 18 months — was completely ignored is an utter mystery.”
Some of that blame would have to go to the headstrong Trump for not injecting it after Holt, who said he chose three topics and their questions himself, skipped over it — even though one of his topics was “securing America.”
But Holt’s unfair slant was less than the ferocious media bias against Trump and for Clinton every day as epitomized in the flagship New York Times and Washington Post. Should Trump be elected president, their grim hostility toward him likely would flare into a fury determined to destroy his administration in any way possible.
Shortly before the September 26 debate began, the Arizona Project featured Mary Ann Mendoza, a Trump supporter, as a speaker at its north Phoenix headquarters.
Her son, Mesa, Ariz., police Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, was killed in a 2014 collision with a drunken, drug-impaired illegal alien driving in the wrong direction. She wrote to Barack Obama that year to complain that the alien had been convicted of previous crimes and should have been deported. (Search at: East Valley Tribune Mary Ann Mendozas letter to President Obama.)
She had been among the speakers at Trump’s July 11, 2015, Phoenix rally whose enthusiastic turnout, Trump later said, made him think his new presidential candidacy had a serious chance. Mendoza took the lectern then as one of the relatives of people killed by illegal immigrants.
The Wanderer reported that rally on the front page of its July 23, 2015, edition, under the headline, “Candidate’s Electrifying Stand: Will Trump Walk a Straight Path on Opposing Illegal Entry?”
Mendoza told the September 26 Tea Party gathering, “I am more concerned about the criminal element” of the illegal immigrant population. “…I don’t think there’s any way we can get rid of 30 million people here illegally,” so the nation should start processing paperwork to keep track of them.
She repeatedly used the figure of 30 million as the number of illegal aliens in the U.S.
Her stand led to reaction from the Phoenix audience.
One man said, “I want them all out of the country,” then they can apply for permission to return.
He said he came to Arizona in the 1980s, when it was a beautiful place, but what he sees now “looks like a Third World country.”
Another man, a native of Southern California, said he went back to see his hometown, but he was warned not to go downtown because of how the population had changed. He did so anyway, he said, but a truck full of possible illegal aliens drove by. One of them, he said, yelled in Spanish, “Hey, gringo, get out of our barrio.”
This could serve as an illustration of how a flood of unauthorized, unassimilated immigrants bands together and tries to re-create their homeland on U.S. soil, the exact opposite of the traditional American pattern of inclusion. It’s a tragedy that open-borders U.S. Catholic bishops and bureaucrats prefer to avoid seeing.
Another man in the Phoenix audience said he’s a former police officer. If the aliens are hard workers, he said, “There’s no reason to throw them out when they’re willing to pay the taxes.”
Recalling the Arizona law from 2010 known as SB 1070, which discouraged illegal immigration, a man in the audience said there was no need for the authorities to deport illegal immigrants because the measure’s passage had prompted them to start leaving Arizona on their own.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the majority of the law in 2012, with the effect of rewarding border-jumping.
Mendoza told the Tea Party audience that the Obama administration still is bringing people from across the border to the Phoenix Greyhound terminal by the busload, to disperse them around the U.S.
This surreptitious effort by Obama to spread illegal aliens around the nation first was revealed in 2014.
Sitting down with The Wanderer before the televised debate began, Mendoza said reasons she’s supporting Trump include her opposition to expenses associated with illegal immigration and also the potential for terrorism.
When this newspaper pointed out Hillary Clinton’s pitch leading up to the debate that Trump is a big liar, Mendoza replied that “Hillary lies intentionally.”
During the televised debate, Clinton repeatedly assailed “the wealthy” as people who need to be taxed more. Despite her own under-the-table activities to amass as much personal wealth as possible, Clinton didn’t seem to think she was among the rich deserving derision.
One conservative pundit described her debate demeanor as that of a “smug schoolmarm.”
It’s probably easy to lose touch with reality when the liberal media ocean that Clinton swims in only wants to tickle her with warm little ripples while sweeping Trump away in a crushing tsunami.
Sounding like tough partisan Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nevada) four years ago attacking 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney over his tax returns, Clinton suggested that Trump could be covering up something by not releasing his yet.
Clinton speculated that Trump may not be as successful a businessman as he claims to be, or isn’t as charitable as he says.
Or, Clinton said, maybe Trump is trying to “hide something terrible.”
Only a left-wing Democrat as completely removed from reality as Clinton is could possibly try to demean an opponent with that sort of accusation, when it’s known beyond doubt that Clinton’s staff illegally destroyed tens of thousands of her government emails in order to hide her international shakedowns to enrich herself.
If Clinton is comfortable with sneaky speculations, might the audience speculate whether secret medical treatment for her rumored ill health is affecting her calculations? Only a day before the debate, TV reporter Liz Kreutz encountered coat-clad 68-year-old Hillary in New York City once again carefully walking down a few stair steps like an ill elderly person.
However, moderator Holt never raised the topic of Clinton’s health, despite her mysterious collapse and escape to her daughter’s apartment from New York’s Ground Zero on September 11. Nor did Holt inquire into her shady financial deal-cutting as U.S. secretary of state.
Nor did he ask how Clinton deeply embarrassed herself by declaring half of Trump’s supporters to be a “basket of deplorables.” Proud Trump supporters quickly stirred up a market for “deplorables” merchandise they could wear and drink from. Perhaps this is how Clinton intends to help stimulate the economy?
In the debate, Trump repeated his successful theme that he’s fighting for an oppressed working class hurt by elitists and their trade deals. Perhaps his major weak point was interrupting Clinton too frequently.
On the topic of cyber hacking by foreign sources, Trump scored a wider point when he said, “Under President Obama, we’ve lost control of things we used to have control of.”
Earlier in the debate, environmental extremist Clinton claimed that pursuing a green agenda would help the economy. Later, when Clinton suggested that an erratic Trump would be fine with having a nuclear war, the Manhattan billionaire said the world’s greatest problem is nuclear weapons, not “global warming.”
In reply, Clinton shot him a dagger look.
Trump The Winner
The Tea Party audience here seemed agreed that Trump won the Hofstra face-off. There was no excuse-making for Trump or halting explanations that would betray a fear he’d hurt himself.
Liberal media bias being a longtime problem, national radio talk host Larry Elder told his audience on September 26 that a newsroom friend revealed reporters were weeping at work over the loss of Democrat Vice President Al Gore to George W. Bush for the presidency in 2000.
Hurting the left-wing cause is the last thing they want — hence their suppression of the scandal of Hillary’s rabid international pro-abortionism, too.
On September 22, writer George Neumayr took note at the American Spectator website of Hillary’s pose as a champion for the disabled. He recalled her rhetoric when she was defending hideous partial-birth abortion as a useful way to dispose of unborn ill infants in 2003.
As Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) showed pictures on the Senate floor of what partial-birth abortion involved, Neumayr recalled, then-Sen. Clinton complained that Santorum was only showing images of healthy babies.
“Where are the swollen heads?. . . They show a perfectly formed fetus, and that is misleading,” Neumayr quoted Clinton.
As of today, has ill Clinton developed more sympathy for sick babies? Will Trump dare recall Clinton’s ghastly language and send her journalist cheerleaders into dizzy collapse?
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