[GodOfReader: Please let this shit end in this chapter.]
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The "Kathy Griffin prank incident" hadn't ended yet.
Another event related to Trump began sweeping across North American public view.
Recently, a video from an organization called "Project Veritas" went viral online.
The video exposed CNN fabricating "Russia ties" hot news for ratings.
In the video released on July 26, a CNN producer named John Bonifield stated that CNN had no evidence regarding Trump's "Russia ties"—the series of reports was just to boost ratings.
According to Bonifield, hyping the "Russia ties" was the idea of CNN's top leadership.
In another video released on July 28, a CNN host bluntly said the Trump "Russia ties" reporting was a "nothingburger"—meaning it wasn't as serious as reported.
After that, Trump also posted a video.
In the video, Trump "furiously beat" a person with a CNN logo on their head in the ring.
CNN responded that this was a sad day—the U.S. president was promoting violence against journalists.
Trump then began targeting those behind CNN.
Mid-July.
The Kathy Griffin incident continued.
Another Trump-related event began dominating North American screens.
Recently, even liberal U.S. government figures were turning against him amid Trump's pressure.
Countless victims and their families also spoke out.
Trump's "travel ban" used counterterrorism as pretext, but overall tightened immigration policy.
The Trump administration, since taking office, intensified crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, with U.S. xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments rising.
The U.S. Congress House recently passed two bills.
One: Deported undocumented immigrants caught sneaking back into the U.S. would face 5 years in prison.
The other: Cut funding to places like California and New York unwilling to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
This wave also made people feel U.S. xenophobia and anti-immigrant emotions were rearing their heads.
Trump recently revealed in an Iowa speech that he was drafting a proposal: Future U.S. immigrants must be self-sufficient financially, ineligible for any welfare for at least five years.
Actually, Trump had laid groundwork for overhauling immigrant welfare: In February this year, Trump issued an executive order targeting green card holders living on welfare in the U.S., to be deported.
Its purpose was to protect U.S. taxpayers' interests, encouraging foreign immigrants to be self-reliant.
How to put it—Trump's policy was sure to be welcomed by many ordinary U.S. taxpayers.
For years, countless foreign immigrants came for U.S. welfare, creating the immigrant "parasite" phenomenon, including some foreign rich—living in mansions, driving luxury cars, yet whole families immigrating to the U.S. for welfare; all sorts of study abroad and immigration brokers often used U.S. welfare as bait to attract clients.
Now, immigrating to the U.S. for welfare was becoming increasingly unfeasible.
If the proposal passes, new immigrants can't access welfare for at least five years.
The chain leading to U.S. immigration benefits was a major resource, one of the Clinton Foundation's main funding sources.
Trump's move was partly to please ordinary Americans, partly to retaliate against the Clinton family.