Fmr Trump Speechwriter: Gen. Hayden 'Laughed In My Face' When I Said We Should Restrict Immigration Instead Of Invading Foreign Lands to Keep U.S. Safe

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 25, 2019

Former speechwriter for President Donald Trump, Darren J Beattie, said Monday night on Twitter that General Michael Hayden laughed in his face back in 2013 after he suggested we should keep America safe from terrorism by restricting immigration instead of "invading countries or dramatically enhancing domestic surveillance."

Exactly.

It is somehow more acceptable in polite discourse to call for the occupation or bombing of a muslim majority country than to simply restrict travel from it.

An important example of the general stupidity of the "national security" ideology. https://t.co/vq0hFJWuQS
— DarrenJBeattie (@DarrenJBeattie) February 26, 2019

Here's the full quoted tweet:

Thoughtful @WSJ piece from @DanCrenshawTX & @RepGallagher on keeping troops in the ME. But a q—they write, "an ISIS terrorist can reach US soil after a 12-hr flight." But why does he get in? Is this a case for a continued deployment or a "travel ban"?https://t.co/RCDrCAgfw4
— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) February 26, 2019

"I will never forget a small lunch I had with @GenMHayden in which I suggested that instead of invading countries or dramatically enhancing domestic surveillance, we might deal with terrorism by restricting immigration," Beattie said. "He laughed in my face."

I will never forget a small lunch I had with @GenMHayden in which I suggested that instead of invading countries or dramatically enhancing domestic surveillance, we might deal with terrorism by restricting immigration.

He laughed in my face.
— DarrenJBeattie (@DarrenJBeattie) February 26, 2019

Beattie said the incident happened on November 11, 2013 when he was employed by the political science department at Duke University.

See the piece I wrote for @DukeU newspaper while a professor there, titled "Duke foolish to condemn perfectly reasonable travel ban" https://t.co/ZbyaHAwyUO
— DarrenJBeattie (@DarrenJBeattie) February 26, 2019

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