Dem Congressman jokes about banning MAGA hats after fake Covington Catholic story

Rep[ulsive] John Yarmuth (D-KY) tweeted Sunday morning that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on. They seem to be poisoning young minds."

So the Democrat seemed to call for a "total and complete" ban of teens wearing Make America Great Again hats after the left-wing fake news media went after a group of Catholic school kids from Yarmuth's home state, for allegedly harassing a group of Native Americans.

Yarmuth immediately tweeted again calling the "conduct we saw in this video is appalling," and added that "it didn't happen in a vacuum." He added, "This is a direct result of the racist hatred displayed daily by the President of the United States who, sadly, some mistake for a role model."

But there was more to the story than the video shown by the media.

Yarmuth’s first tweet was ratioed, receiving 25,000 comments and just 2,800 retweets.

The responses to his tweet mostly focused on how the original story of the Catholic students harassing the Native Americans was badly misreported. It was a lie as the two hours of footage showed that the students were themselves originally harassed with racial and homophobic slurs by a group of Black Hebrew Israelites.

The group of Native Americans then entered the group of Catholic students and the leader of the group, Nathan Phillips, began beating his drum just inches from one of the boys’ faces, as he smiles nervously and politely back.

Some also suggested Yarmuth imagined the same thing being said about banning the hijab.

Several hours later, Yarmuth sent out a couple follow-up tweets saying his original thread was a “joke,” and he was repurposing a quote from President Donald Trump’s campaign website suggesting a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

“The President’s fans seem far more upset by my (obvious) joke [he misspelled 'oblivious'] about banning hats than they were when the President said literally the same thing about banning actual human beings. Go figure,” Yarmuth tweeted, evidently referring to banning illegal aliens entering the U.S. as giving up our sovereignty as a nation.

Yarmuth said in a second tweet that he is “a passionate supporter of the 1st Amendment” and “will always defend the right to wear MAGA hats. Just not the un-American policies they represent.”  This was possibly his attempt at a "save" for the garbage statements he made.

Yarmuth seems to have bought into the false narrative originally purported by the media, which goes to show that people often believe what they want to believe, video proof be damned.

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