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shurtha2000, "A Willfully Illiterate moron would be used to describe a White House Employee"

Only a willfully moronic troll intent on spreading misinformation like a mosquito spreads itch would say that.

"Such as when they try to change the definition of the word recession " -- You sure as hell needed a link for that one.

"or when the Homeland Security comes on TV and says the Border is safe and secure" -- and that one.

Fact Check: Is the U.S.-Mexico Border More Secure Than Ever, as Trump Says?
By Lauren Giella On 1/13/21 at 1:31 PM EST
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The number of Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border has fluctuated over Trump's term. The 2017 fiscal year number was 303,916, the lowest since the fiscal year 1971, according to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). This led the Department of Homeland Security to boast that "the southwest land border is more difficult to illegally cross today than ever before."

However, in the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, there were large increases in apprehensions to 396,579 and 851,508, respectively.

According to CBP, the number of total enforcement actions (from Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations), including the deportation of people deemed inadmissible under asylum laws, surpassed 1.1 million in 2019. This number decreased by nearly 500,000 in the following fiscal year.

While these figures were the highest in nearly a decade, they are significantly lower than the numbers during George W. Bush's administration. In 2000, the number of apprehensions from Border Patrol reached 1.6 million.

Decade-long data from CBP shows that apprehensions along the Southwest border have significantly increased since 1960.
[...]
In January 2018, the president tweeted:

"We must have Security at our VERY DANGEROUS SOUTHERN BORDER, and we must have a great WALL to help protect us, and to help stop the massive inflow of drugs pouring into our country!"

The Cato Institute found that border counties have far less crime per capita than American counties that are not along the border.

"If the entire United States had crime rates as low as those along the border in 2017, then the number of homicides would have been 33.8 percent lower, property crimes would have been 2.1 percent lower, and violent crimes would have dropped 8 percent," the report said.

According to FBI crime statistics, U.S. towns along the Southern border are among the safest in America. Some border cities have crime rates far below the national average.
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In his speech Tuesday, Trump talked about his efforts to keep terrorists out of the country, including terrorists from "seriously dangerous places in the Middle East" who come in through the Southern border. Trump used this talking point throughout his presidency to justify increased presence at the border.

However, in September of 2019, the State Department issued a report finding "no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups have established bases in Mexico, worked with Mexican drug cartels or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States." The report stated that while the U.S. Southern border remains vulnerable to potential terrorist transit, "terrorist groups are likely to seek other means of trying to enter the United States."

The Associated Press (AP) found that most of the State Department reports on terrorism have expressed more concern about the Northern border. In 2017, the State Department said Canada has been home to "violent extremists inspired by terrorist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaida and their affiliates and adherents." While more suspected terrorists enter the country by air travel, Canada has more often been a source of terrorism suspects entering the U.S. by land crossing.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-us-mexico-border-more-secure-ever-trump-says-1561303

As a Trump supporter you have no credibility at all to be critical of any announcement by Homeland Security.

"or when you draw out OIL from emergency strategic reserves and ship it to China" --- yet again an assertion without the link YOU KNOW is required.

U.S. Selling Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the Highest Bidding Companies

By D'Angelo Gore Posted on July 14, 2022

Q: Is the Biden administration selling crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to other countries?

A: The oil is sold to eligible companies that make the highest offers. Some of the companies are U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies, and some that purchased oil have then exported a portion to buyers overseas. Exports increase the global supply and still help with U.S. gas prices, experts told us.
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But after the Reuters story was published, some conservative politicians, pundits and media outlets criticized the Biden administration for allowing a portion of the country’s emergency oil supply to go abroad.

A July 7 story from the Washington Free Beacon focused on nearly 1 million barrels of the reserve’s oil that was sold in April to Unipec America, an arm of the Chinese oil and gas company Sinopec, which has, or had, some connection to the president’s son, Hunter Biden. (Hunter Biden once was part of BHR, a Chinese investment fund company that purchased a stake in a Sinopec subsidiary that sells oil products. In March, the Washington Examiner reported that Chinese and American business records still showed Hunter owned a minority stake in BHR, although a lawyer for Hunter told the New York Times in November that he no longer held any financial interest, directly or indirectly, in the company.)

However, the Department of Energy said that U.S. subsidiaries of foreign energy companies have long been eligible to place bids on SPR oil.

Prior to 2015, “it was unlikely any product delivered to the winning bidder was exported outside the US,” the department’s email said. But that changed after the broad export ban on U.S-produced crude oil was lifted that year.

“U.S. companies are permitted to place bids on SPR crude oil; DOE cannot dictate what selected bidders will do with the SPR crude oil after delivery,” the department explained.

For example, U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 is one of the American companies that has purchased SPR oil made available this year. Reuters reported that, in June, the company shipped about 470,000 barrels of the crude oil it bought to Italy, according to government data. The news agency found that other companies that bought reserve oil also made shipments to the Netherlands, India and China.

Still, it’s “rare” for companies that purchase oil from the reserve to export it, the Energy Department said, adding that it “is only possible to know retroactively where oil is sent after delivery, and not when oil is delivered to the selected bidder.”

The Exports Still Help Gas Prices
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/u-s-selling-oil-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-the-highest-bidding-companies/

"or after withdrawing from a prolonged 20 year war with the Taliban in Afghanistan and in less
than 6 months you start proxy war with Russia and give billions in aid like it was candy" .. now that is just stupid. And untrue.

Only a willfully ignorant moron would blame an American president for a war Putin started.

"You could also say Democrats could pass for illiterate or willful moron" .. you could also say that Trump was a decent American citizen.

YOU need supporting evidence for assertions as those. Any post as that in future consider most eligible for deletion without comment .