MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton profiled departing Department of Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin — a woman who, in her Hylton’s words, is “known for her combative posture to the press and a relationship to the truth that is at times tenuous.”
Hylton opened the segment on Tuesday night with a clip of McLaughlin, a key media-facing figure, accusing Democrats of inviting terrorism against border officials.
“There’s a highly coordinated campaign of violence against our law enforcement,” said McLaughlin in the clip. “There are foreign terrorist organizations who are going after our law enforcement who are shooting at them. The Democrat Party has decided that violence against law enforcement is okay. These rioters, these Democrat politicians, are protecting the worst of the worst criminal, illegal aliens among us. These agitators, these rioters are protecting these criminals. They’re talking about this is racially based. Absolutely not.”
“For the past year, McLaughlin has basically been the main gatekeeper for information out of DHS, and she has provided journalists, including myself, with non-responses,” said Hylton. “Outrage at our lines of questioning, even smears for the immigrants whose stories we’ve told on this network. Blame for the protesters, for the violence that they suffered, suggesting Renee Good, for example, was a domestic terrorist, saying Alex Pretti violently resisted the officers who shot him to death. And when DHS social media accounts began to push out a steady stream of content that experts warned were full of racist dog whistles and white nationalist content, McLaughlin dismissed criticisms as cherry–picking.”
Furthermore, Hylton continued, “like her boss Kristi Noem, McLaughlin has faced questions about possible corruption. Last year, ProPublica investigated a $220 million DHS contract to produce a series of video ads starring Kristi Noem, and the main beneficiary of that contract was a company whose CEO is married to, you guessed it, Tricia McLaughlin. She told ProPublica, quote, ‘My marriage is one thing and work is another. I don’t combine them.’”
“McLaughlin explained how she views that work in an interview last month with her hometown paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer,” she continued, “Quote: ‘Media is so much of the battle, so to speak, on the immigration issue. So much of the debate is a public relations debate. It’s a PR war.’ McLaughlin often fought dirty in that war, and now it appears she’s throwing in the towel, leaving behind a badly scarred department after setting its credibility, and at times her own, on fire.”
“Make no mistake: DHS is still, according to experts and judges, regularly violating people’s rights, taking orders from Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, of course,” said Hylton. “And they have the massive war chest that they got in Trump’s big budget bill. And even this shutdown can’t keep their agents off the streets right now, but their momentum is slowing. Their agency is in limbo, and their spokesperson is now out the door.”
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