President Trump accused Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of making up the claim that migrants in detention centers were drinking from toilets while speaking to reporters Friday morning.
“I mean, to have Ocasio[-Cortez] say they are drinking out of toilets. She made that up, okay? That’s a phony story. She made it up. I tell you what. I have been with ICE, and I’ve been with border control a lot,” Trump said. “They love those people coming across the border. They love them, and I’ve seen it. They love them.”
Trump’s accusation comes over a week after Ocasio-Cortez’s claim, which she made the day she and other members of Congress visited detention centers.
“Just left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically & sexually threatening towards me. Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets,” the New York Democratic congresswoman tweeted, referring to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Just left the 1st CBP facility.
I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me.
Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.
This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
Trump also insulted the media’s reporting on the situation at the border.
“I read a phony story in the New York Times today or the other day about the detention centers, about the conditions,” the president added. “I have people calling me up at the highest level from Border Patrol and ICE, almost crying about that phony story, and they never saw anything. They have phony sources. They don’t even have sources. They write whatever they want.”
