Trump campaign slams Democrats walling off convention but not border: ‘Hypocrites!’

Published August 20, 2024 3:59pm ET



The Trump campaign lambasted Democrats as “hypocrites” for walling off the convention in Chicago to protect those inside despite the White House’s yearslong refusal to build a wall on the southern border amid the illegal immigration crisis.

“The Democrat Party is made up of out-of-touch elites who live by the motto ‘rules for thee but not for me.’ They put walls around the DNC and Capitol Hill but oppose a border wall to protect the American people; hire private armed security for themselves but support defunding local police; and they oppose school choice as they send their own kids to private school. Hypocrites!” said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in an email to the Washington Examiner Tuesday afternoon.

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