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New York Times Smears Border Officials With Deceptive Tweet

Ryan Saavedra

The left-leaning New York Times smeared federal law enforcement officials tasked with protecting the U.S. border and points of entry with a deceptive tweet that distorted the number of officials who had been arrested in a two-year period for corruption charges.

“More than 500 employees of the United States’ primary border security agency were charged with drug trafficking, accepting bribes and a range of other crimes over a two-year period,” the Times tweeted on Friday and again on Saturday.

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