“I don’t know if you know what’s happening,” he said. “People are coming over from Honduras. They have like 5,000 people. Honduras and Guatemala, El Salvador. Some of these people are hard criminals. Hardened criminals.” It was a month before the 2018 midterm election, and misinformation fueled by Trump on Twitter and then picked up by Fox News had turned footage of a protest march by Central American migrants into a supposed “caravan” of asylum seekers heading for the United States. “They broke through in Guatemala,” he said. “These are some bad people coming through. These aren’t babies,
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