Barry Moore predicts Donald Trump indictment means he “will get more support than he has ever had”
On Friday, Congressman Barry Moore appeared on Newsmax’s National Report with Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg to discuss the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Moore predicted that Trump would get more support because of the indictment. “He is going to get support he didn’t know he had,” Moore said. “I think you are going to see a unifying – not just the base for Donald Trump, but the Republican Party because the American people realize that there is more at stake now than just whether you like Donald Trump or not. American liberty is at stake. Trump is the tip of the spear, and he has said many times that the only thing between them and you is me, and now they are coming after him. This DA in New York has just mobilized the whole rest of the country.” Moore predicted that the indictment of Trump would backfire on Democrats in the coming election. “That DA might get reelected,” Moore said. “Mr. [Alvin] Bragg might get reelected, but I think it backfires in the rest of the country because we see this as just another Russia Russia, another impeachment impeachment, another Ukraine Ukraine – all of that stuff that we were told that President Trump did that is so horrible – the investigation into his tax returns.” “I think it is going to backfire on the Democrats, and we are going to see a turnout like we have never seen,” Moore said. “I don’t think they can cheat enough to win this time.” When Moore was in the Alabama State Legislature, he was indicted on perjury charges. Moore was ultimately found not guilty by a jury, but he said that that indictment helped his re-election campaign in 2014. “No, not at all,” Moore said. “After I was indicted, and it was for political purposes, that following weekend, we had more volunteers than we’ve ever had in the campaign – and it was just people who knew we were fighting for the American people even at the state level. This will motivate people to mobilize and vote, and [Trump] will get more support than he has ever had.” New York State Supreme Court Judge Sol Wachtler famously said in 1985 that prosecutors have so much influence on grand juries that they could even “indict a ham sandwich.” To emphasize Wachtler’s famous maxim, Rep. Moore’s office handed out ham sandwiches on Friday. “We have got them in the office that says: ‘Indict this,’” Moore said. “I am inviting everyone to come by. You can indict your ham sandwich. You can do whatever you want to do, but we’re rallying behind President Trump today with ham sandwiches.” Moore released a statement on Thursday denouncing Trump’s indictment. “The arrest of President Trump demonstrates more than ever how the Democrats have weaponized the government against the American people,” Moore said. “As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I am committed to holding the Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney accountable by requesting to review all documents in this case and working to ensure that federal funds are not used on this political witch hunt.” Barry Moore is in his second term representing Alabama’s Second Congressional District. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
Barry Moore visits Yuma, Arizona to learn about the southern border crisis first hand
U.S. Congressman Barry Moore participated in the House Judiciary Committee’s first field hearing of the 118th Congress dealing with the border situation. The hearing was held in Yuma, Arizona, where Moore and his Republican colleagues were able to observe the border situation firsthand. The hearing featured three witnesses: Jonathan Lines, a county supervisor in Yuma County; Sheriff Leon Wilmot; and Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of Yuma Regional Medical Center. Moore’s questions focused on the humanitarian crisis created by the flood of humanity crossing the U.S. southern border. 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses – most of them from drugs that were smuggled across the U.S. southern border with Mexico. “In Alabama recently, I was told that in Birmingham we seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in my entire state, so this may be affecting border communities, but it’s a crisis for our entire nation,” Moore said of the fentanyl crossing the border in large quantities. Moore discussed the high costs that some traffickers have charged people worldwide to cross the U.S. southern border. “We actually seized some Chinese nationals, [said] a Sheriff’s Department in Texas, and it was $80,000 each,” Moore said. “Folks, they’re not coming here to do us any favors, just so you know.” Moore discussed the benefits, including cell phones, being issued to migrants paid for by American taxpayers. “We are actually, with taxpayer dollars, trafficking children, and we’re paying to get them here on American taxpayer dollars, and putting them in God knows what and God knows where,” Moore said. Moore expressed his concerns about the vast numbers of unaccompanied minor children our government has lost after transporting them to unverified and unvetted people and places throughout our country. “We’ve lost 20,000 children. [Alejandro] Mayorkas said himself in a hearing he does not know where 20,000 of these children are, and that’s just staggering to me,” Moore said. Moore appeared Thursday on Newsmax’s National Report with Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg live from the southern border near Yuma, Arizona. “The people of Yuma have a story to tell,” Moore said. “The number of encounters they’ve had over the last three years, the difference in what the Trump administration was doing for this community and what’s going on now under the current administration is a remarkable difference. It’s a stark difference in how we handle the southern border.” Moore said that President Joe Biden should visit Yuma. “If nothing else, it would show he actually puts America first. We have a president who globe-trots around the world trying to solve other nations’ problems and denies and ignores the problems right here in our very own country, whether it’s East Palestine or the U.S. southern border,” Moore said. “These are things that this administration could lead on, and they’ve turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to the American people and the crises we face here in this country.” Moore said that if the American people knew what was happening at the border, they would be upset. “A closed border is a compassionate border,” Moore said. “We cannot address immigration reform in this country until we close this southern border and get a handle on what’s going on down here.” Moore is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has ordered the Committee to hold hearings on the border crisis to draw attention to the problem. Moore said that Democrats were invited to attend the field hearing; but chose not to. Barry Moore is in his first term representing Alabama’s Second Congressional District. Moore previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
Barry Moore said that the human toll of the border crisis ‘continues to escalate’
On Saturday, Congressman Barry Moore discussed the southern border situation with Newsmax’s Lidia Curanaj. A hearing of the House Judiciary Committee revealed the negative side of the border crisis. Moore discussed how the fentanyl epidemic plaguing American communities does not discriminate against race, gender, or party affiliation. Moore also contrasted former President Donald Trump’s $4 billion request to continue the construction of a border wall with President Joe Biden’s spending of $100 billion to defend Ukraine’s border. “President Trump asked for $4 billion to secure our border and finish the wall, and they said, ‘Oh, that’s too much money,’ the Democrats voted no. He was fought every step of the way, and yet we’ve spent $100 billion securing Ukraine’s border against Russia, and we have an invasion on [our] southern border,” said Moore. “The 2,200 pounds of fentanyl we’re seizing on the southern border [per month] is more than we seized in all of 2018, and Sheriff [Mark] Dannels said himself, in four decades of working that border, the most manageable he’s ever seen it was in 2018 under President Trump. He said it’s the worst he’s ever seen it today, and it continues to escalate.” Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told the Committee that the border situation has never been uglier in his career than it is now. “I work with many border patrol agents, federal agents, and to date, I have never heard one say that it’s working: the morale, the frustration they feel, the frustration we feel,” Sheriff Dannels testified. “We’ve had to step up our game.” Since July, the border patrol and customs officials have averaged seizures of 2,200 pounds a month. U.S. authorities are confiscating more fentanyl in a single month than they did during all of 2018. Rep. Moore also spoke with Newsmax’s Emma Rechenberg and Jon Glasgow about the House Judiciary Committee’s first hearing on the border. “Fifty years ago, we declared a war on drugs with just 6,700 deaths,” Moore said. “Last year, [we had] 107,000 fentanyl deaths, and it’s pouring across our southern border. The Democrats on the other side of the aisle say, ‘Well, it’s coming through the ports of entry,’ but that is not the case, and we talked a great deal to the sheriff about that. We’re finding out now that it’s all along the U.S. southern border. It’s pretty porous, and the drug cartels control in that area of the border.” The Border Patrol apprehended a record number of border crossers in 2022. Biden has overturned a number of Trump-era border policies resulting in a record increase in human migration. Alabama Today recently spoke with a waitress in Leeds who was apprehended at the border. The 21-year-old woman from Guatemala speaks English and Spanish as well as her Native American language, a dialect of old Mayan. She entered the U.S. alone though she has a brother and a sister already here. The young lady said that she had intended to enter the U.S. over land but was intercepted at the border, brought to Alabama, and has been here for a year. Moore is in his second term representing Alabama’s Second Congressional District. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
