{"id":2327716,"date":"2024-08-20T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-slams-dnc-for-walling-off-convention-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:30:14","slug":"trump-campaign-slams-dnc-for-walling-off-convention-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-slams-dnc-for-walling-off-convention-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign slams DNC for walling off convention &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-slams-dnc-for-walling-off-convention-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2327716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump campaign\u2063 criticized the Democrats for hypocrisy after they erected\u2064 a\u200c fence around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, claiming that while they protect their \u200down events with barriers, \u200cthey \u200coppose the construction of a border wall intended to secure \u2064the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-laughs-when-asked-if-she-is-going-to-visit-border-to-see-crisis\/\" title=\"WATCH: Kamala Harris Laughs When Asked If She Is Going To Visit Border To See Crisis\">southern border amid<\/a>\u2062 ongoing \u200cillegal \u200cimmigration issues. Karoline Leavitt, Trump\u2019s press secretary, argued that the Democrats endorse \u2062a double standard, \u2062securing their events while pushing to defund local\u2062 police and opposing school choice for others. <\/p>\n<p>The convention preparations \u2062included a \u200bnewly\u200c installed 6-foot\u200b fence around the United Center, which faced protests on the opening day. Demonstrators \u200bchanting against\u2063 President Biden and Vice President Harris were able to breach the outer perimeter \u2064of the fence, leading to swift police intervention. Although tens of thousands were anticipated at the protests, only\u2062 about 3,500 participated on the first day, resulting in several arrests. The protests were primarily focused on \u2062U.S. \u2063support for Israel during its conflict with Hamas. Leavitt\u2019s comments and the protests highlight the tensions surrounding the convention, as \u200cboth political statements and demonstrations \u200dreflect ongoing national debates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump campaign slams Democrats walling off convention but not border: &lsquo;Hypocrites!&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1734010\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Trump campaign lambasted Democrats as &ldquo;hypocrites&rdquo; for walling off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>convention<\/a> in Chicago to protect those inside despite the White House&rsquo;s yearslong refusal to build a wall on the southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>border<\/a> amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-accuse-biden-of-playing-political-game-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"House Republicans Accuse Biden of Playing \u2018Political Game\u2019 Over Border Crisis\">illegal immigration crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrat Party is made up of out-of-touch elites who live by the motto &lsquo;rules for thee but not for me.&rsquo; 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!&rdquo; said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary to Republican presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>, in an email to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Work crews were on-site overnight ahead of Day Two of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, putting up a new 6-foot-tall fence around the United Center, where this week&rsquo;s festivities are centered.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats have now built three layers of walls outside their convention to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The same Democrats that have spent 3.5 years leaving our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shows-you-what-his-priorities-are-blake-masters-hits-mark-kelly-for-backing-bidens-irs-buildup\/\" title=\"\u2018Shows You What His Priorities Are\u2019: Blake Masters Hits Mark Kelly For Backing Biden\u2019s IRS Buildup\">southern border wide open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Building walls is good when they&#8217;re protecting Democrats but evil when they protect our border. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ohvoPBBM3n\">pic.twitter.com\/ohvoPBBM3n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1825907599109165098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats have now built three layers of walls outside their convention to protect themselves. The same Democrats that have spent 3.5 years leaving our southern border wide open,&rdquo; the Trump War Room account on X posted Tuesday morning, along with a CNN clip that showed crews installing the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Building walls is good when they&rsquo;re protecting Democrats but evil when they protect our border,&rdquo; the Trump War Room added. The Harris campaign and the Democratic National Convention Committee did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The fencing was partially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/gaza-protesters-break-through-security-fence-dnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>taken down<\/a> Monday by protesters on-site who called for the Biden administration not to fund Israel&rsquo;s war against Hamas in Gaza, according to a city official.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They breached the fence. They got into the outer perimeter. They were trying to get into the inner perimeter. They were shaking the fence on the other side,&rdquo; Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters on Monday. &ldquo;Officers responded swiftly to make sure that that didn&rsquo;t happen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters knock down a fence surrounding the United Center at the Democratic National Convention after a march on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pro-Palestinian protesters chanted, &ldquo;Biden, Harris, you can&rsquo;t hide, you&rsquo;re funding a genocide,&rdquo; according to videos from inside the protest Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Several tens of thousands of protesters were predicted to descend on Chicago this week, but Monday&rsquo;s showing involved roughly 3,500 attendees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/democratic-convention-chicago-protests-war-gaza-f064683535bbbe93231d31ecc2dbafc7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>More than a dozen<\/a> protesters were arrested on Monday. A leader within the group downplayed the group&rsquo;s collision with the fencing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our focus for the march was having a march on the DNC, and we did that,&rdquo; said Faayani Aboma Mijana, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-protests-dnc-crews-add-new-fencing-around-united-center-after-breach-during-protest-democratic-national-convention\/15208089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> ABC-7 in Chicago. &ldquo;We marched within the sight and sound of the United Center. We protested the genocide, and we don&rsquo;t control everyone, but at the same time, we are talking about a fence when there is a genocide happening.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The new fencing appeared to be in addition to two fence perimeters erected before Monday, roughly two blocks from the United Center at Washington Boulevard and Wolcott Avenue.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Arizona, to seek asylum. (AP Photo\/Eugene Garcia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s first acts upon taking office in January 2021 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2578043\/wall-of-waste-biden-ending-trump-wall-leaves-border-rancher-with-field-of-rusting-steel-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>canceling<\/a> more than 300 miles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2578043\/wall-of-waste-biden-ending-trump-wall-leaves-border-rancher-with-field-of-rusting-steel-2\/\" title>border wall<\/a> that Congress had passed during the Trump administration but was not completed before Trump left office.<\/p>\n<p>Under Biden, more non-U.S. citizens have been encountered at the nation&rsquo;s borders than during any one-term or two-term presidential administration. Over 3 1\/2 years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has intercepted more than 10 million migrants at ports of entry and between the ports.<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1734010\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1734010\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump campaign criticized Democrats as &#8220;hypocrites&#8221; for securing the convention in Chicago while neglecting to build a wall on the southern border during an ongoing illegal immigration crisis. Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Donald Trump, stated in an email to the Washington Examiner that the Democratic Party consists of disconnected elites who adhere to a double standard: they create barriers around their events but oppose a border wall meant to safeguard American citizens. They hire private security while advocating for defunding local police and resist school choice even as they send their children to private institutions. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the Trump War Room account on X highlighted that Democrats had erected three layers of fencing around their convention venue, contrasting this with their failure to secure the southern border over the past 3.5 years. The account remarked that constructing walls is acceptable when it protects Democrats but deemed wrong when it serves to protect national borders.<\/p>\n<p>Protests occurred outside the United Center where demonstrators called for an end to U.S. funding for Israel&#8217;s actions against Hamas in Gaza, leading some protesters to breach part of the fencing set up by authorities. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling reported that officers quickly intervened during these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite expectations of tens of thousands attending protests throughout the week, only about 3,500 showed up on Monday, resulting in several arrests. A spokesperson from one protest group downplayed any confrontation with law enforcement regarding fencing and emphasized their focus was on protesting at the DNC.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, President Biden&#8217;s administration has faced criticism since one of his first actions was canceling over 300 miles of border wall construction initiated under Trump&#8217;s presidency\u2014leading to record numbers of non-U.S. citizens encountered at U.S. borders during his term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2327717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dnc-protesters-fence.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4087,19752,7705,3634],"class_list":["post-2327716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-campaign","tag-convention","tag-dnc","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dnc-protesters-fence.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}