Cindy McCain, the widow of Republican Sen. John McCain, ran out here and told a whole-ass lie about stopping a child-trafficking incident at an Arizona airport and even her lie was steeped in racist beliefs.
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Iโm just going to let Maverickess McCain tell it.
โI came in from a trip Iโd been on and I spottedโit looked oddโit was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had, and something didnโt click with me,โ the anti-trafficking activist said in an interview Monday with radio station KTAR.
โI went over to the police and told them what I saw and they went over and questioned her and, by God, she was trafficking that kid.โ
McCain, co-chair of the Arizona Governorโs Council on Human Trafficking wasnโt finished as she added: โShe was waiting for the guy who bought the child to get off an airplane.โ
Letโs go over this a bit, shall we?
First Maverickess McCain claims that she spotted a woman of a different ethnicity holding a child and instantly knew from her years of being a human-trafficking advocate or just living in racist Arizona that something wasnโt right. As a race-policeย deputized by her whiteness, McCain went to the police to report the woman holding a child who didnโt match the childโs race because that is a race-police violation. Of course, the police responded to McCainโs claims because sheโs a white woman reporting something and, low and behold, Maverickess McCain was correct and her quick thinking and racist eye helped save the imaginary child from her imaginary traffickers.
Now, hereโs what actually happened: โPhoenix police Sgt. Armando Carbajal told KTAR on Wednesday that officers conducted a welfare check on a child at the Sky Harbor International Airport on Jan. 30 at McCainโs request,โ the New York Post reports.
Carbajal told the news station: โofficers determined there was no evidence of criminal conduct or child endangerment.โ
McCain, 64, apologized for the incident on Twitter.
โAt Phoenix Sky Harbor, I reported an incident that I thought was trafficking. I commend the police officers for their diligence. I apologize if anything else I have said on this matter distracts from โif you see something, say something,โโ she wrote.
Hereโs what McCainโs apology shouldโve said: โAt Phoenix Sky Harbor, I reported an incident that I thought was trafficking based on how we do things in Arizona, which is basically calling the police on anyone non-white. The police investigated the incident and found that I was wrong and racist-y. Thankfully, no one was shot or tasered because of my ill-informed actions and oh, about that story I told, I made all of that shit up because I canโt not see myself as a hero even when I was wrong AF.โ
There, I fixed it for you.
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