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Outkick founder goes toe-to-toe with Dem strategist: ‘Dumbest argument ever made in the history of Fox News’

September 28, 2024 | | Print Article

Outkick’s Clay Travis slammed the Democrat Party’s deputy press secretary for making “the dumbest argument ever made in the history of Fox News.”

Listen:

Travis’ fierce criticism of deputy press secretary Jose Aristimuño came during a discussion on Fox News’s “The Story” on Friday about new data released this week by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

This week ICE officials penned a letter to Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales revealing that of all the criminal aliens who’ve been allowed into the country, there are “62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide,” as later reported by Fox News.

The discussion on “The Story” began with host Martha MacCallum confronting Aristimuño with this data.

“I’m sure that you don’t want to know some of these 13,000 who have committed murder or 15,000 who have committed sexual assault are in your neighborhood or anywhere near your family,” she said.

His response was disappointing, to say the least.

“Yeah, look, it’s a real problem,” he began before going full anti-Trump. “It’s so sad to see and I can tell you – me as a Venezuelan-American – when I see Donald Trump insult Venezuelan immigrants, insult Haitian immigrants to say that they are doing a bunch of things.”

“The majority of immigrants are good-serving people. Martha, the FBI says it releases reports year after year, less than 10 percent of undocumented immigrants are criminals,”  he added.

It doesn’t matter, because a single homicidal criminal is one homicidal criminal too many, no?

MacCallum, for her part, responded to Aristimuño’s anti-Trump rant by drawing attention to former President Donald Trump’s plans to deport violent criminal aliens.

Aristimuño predictably responded by first playing the race card and then hilariously blaming the border crisis on Trump.

“They want to deport people that look like me simply because you are Latino,” he said. “Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, the first day Joe Biden got sworn into office, he put forth an immigration bill, and Republicans blocked it. What happened with the border bill a couple of months ago? Donald Trump called Speaker Johnson and said, ‘Kill the bill.'”

FYI, on President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he reversed virtually all of Trump’s successful border policies and unveiled the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a bill that would have opened a pathway for all criminal aliens living in the U.S. to become citizens.

As for the recent so-called “bipartisan border bill” that congressional Republicans rejected, it would have — much like the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 — done very little to actually secure the border.

Conversely, the Republicans’ H.R. 2 would have actually resolved the border crisis by purging the workforce of criminal aliens, tightening asylum eligibility requirements, building additional border fortifications, and much, much more.

Asked to respond to Aristimuño’s ridiculous rhetoric, Travis then unleashed.

“Martha, I feel like I am taking crazy pills,” he said. “Did Jose just say it’s Donald Trump’s fault Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have let in 13,000 known murderers and 16,000 known rapists? With all due respect, this is the dumbest argument ever made in the history of Fox News, at least while I’ve been a guest.”

It appears for all intents and purposes that he wasn’t wrong …

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