TV host Tiffany Cross, House Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries go bonkers on deportations, ex-CIA boss John Brennan lies again and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This claim:

“[ICE is] kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps.”

— Tiffany Cross on CNN, Tuesday

We say: No wonder even far-left MSNBC had to boot Cross.

ICE doesn’t “kidnap” people: It arrests those who enter the country illegally; many have criminal records.

“Concentration camps”? As The Post’s Kelly Jane Torrance responded, such claims are “insulting to Jewish Holocaust survivors.”

Detention centers are nothing like Nazi camps, with gas ovens and hard labor.

If CNN is going to give Cross a platform, maybe it should make sure she’s taking medication first.

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This charge:

“Trump . . . [is] deporting American citizens and children, some with cancer.”

— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Monday

We say: Tiffany Cross may hope to build her career on unhinged, inflammatory statements, but what’s Jeffries’ excuse? He’s the House Democratic leader.

Trump & Co. don’t intentionally deport US citizens. When illegal immigrant parents are lawfully sent home, they may take their children with them.

But even if the kids were born here and are thus citizens, that doesn’t mean they’re being deported.

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This assertion:

“[The 2016 election-interference assessment was] done in an apolitical and nonpartisan fashion.” 

— Ex-CIA Director John Brennan, Wednesday

We say: Brennan’s lies never end. He told Congress in 2017 the bogus Steele dossier “wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information” informing that 2016 assessment, but in a just-released email, he insisted it be included.

He falsely suggested The Post’s 2020 scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

Now he claims the 2016 assessment was “apolitical and nonpartisan,” even as a new review of it, as CIA boss John Ratcliffe notes, shows it was done “through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments.”

No wonder the FBI’s probing him.

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This description:

“[The recent LA unrest] was a mass, nonviolent, peaceful protest, and there was an 8- or 10-block area where there were riots happening.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin, Saturday

We say: Didn’t Raskin learn from the mockery sparked by claims the George Floyd protests were “mostly peaceful”?

The recent anti-ICE “protest” in Los Angeles injured dozens of people, damaged property and led to hundreds of arrests.

And it might’ve been worse without Trump’s intervention.  

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board