A bombshell email reveals that Mayorkas was informed by his top public affairs official that the Border Patrol agents, who were accused of whipping Haitian illegals, were not doing so.
And they information came from the horse’s mouth.
NEW: Email reveals DHS Secretary Mayorkas was alerted by DHS' top public affairs official that the "whipping" narrative behind horseback BP photos wasn't true, but at a WH press conference 2.5 hours later, he didn't refute that narrative, instead calling the images "horrifying". pic.twitter.com/Qyfy2NBkNo
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The email reads:
The photographer behind images depicting Border Patrol agents on horseback told KTSM that things are not exactly what they seem when it comes to the photos.
The photographs, which were taken Sunday, appear to show agents on horses with a whip in hand. The photos caused outrage because from certain angles, it appears to show Border Patrol whipping migrants, but photographer Paul Ratje said he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone.
“Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses,” Ratje said.
I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
The man who took the photos said that the Border Patrol wasn’t whipping anyone. But instead of standing with the Border Patrol, which work under him, Mayorkas decided to feed the outrage narrative and act utterly horrified by the false whipping that everyone was outraged over, claiming the images were ‘horrifying’.
What a puke. He had a chance to back his agents up, but he turned on them like any corrupt politician who is more interested with his own reputation and ambition.