Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), a Trumper election denier (details here), not only can’t read an election result, but can’t count warm bodies wading across the Rio Grande and climbing over fences, either.
She tweeted on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, “Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 1,000,000,000 migrants at our southern border in just 6 months. President Biden’s open border policies are fueling this crisis!” (See below; read story here.)
That’s 1/7th of all humans on Earth, and eight times Mexico’s entire population.
The blowback was swift and merciless:
- “This is what happens when you ban math books.”
- “Two possibilities: (1) ONE BILLION MIGRANTS have tried to cross our border in just 6 months, or 230,000 PER HOUR, which is more than the population of Des Moines, Iowa every 60 minutes, – or – (2) Debbie doesn’t know how many zeroes are in a million.”
- “Using a Florida math book, I see … “
- “Numbers not your thing, huh?”
