7/16/19: President Trump’s tweets aimed at four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color, calling on them to “go back where they came from” are not going over well with most Americans. True, many Trump fans loved them – which is part of the problem with many Trump fans.
Pollsters say 7 out of 10 Americans believe the attacks were offensive. That includes 45% of Republicans who said his tweets were “racist.” It also strikes many of those polled that telling four women to “go back where they came from” was stupid, since three were born in this country.
The family of Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), one of the lawmakers,
has been in this country far longer than Trump’s.
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FOR ONCE, a few GOP lawmakers find it in their souls to criticize the Hater-in-Chief. Asked if she found Trump’s tweets “racist,” Sen Joni Ernst responded, “Yeah, I do.” Rep. Will Hurd of Texas agreed that the president’s words were “racist and xenophobic.”
Sen. Mitch Romney said if a measure to condemn the president reached the Senate floor, he’d support it. “A lot of people have been using the word [racist],” he told a reporter. “My own view is, that what was said and what was tweeted was destructive, was demeaning, was disunifying and, frankly, was very wrong. It’s clearly destructive and it has the potential to being dangerous as well.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Ralph Abraham, for one, was happy to back the president. “I’ll pay for their tickets out of this country if they just tell me where they’d rather be.”
Other Republicans sought cover
by criticizing the four women first, then daintily criticizing Trump – as if a president’s words from the
Bully Pulpit don’t carry more weight than the words of four new members of
Congress. Sen. Tim Scott admitted that Trump had engaged in “unacceptable
personal attacks and [used] racially offensive language.” Rep. Chip Roy was
correct in saying Trump “was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in
Congress or not, has any ‘home’ besides the U.S.” Rep. Fred Upton said both sides were wrong,
but admitted he was “appalled by the President’s tweets.” Rep. Elise
Stefanik made it clear she disagreed with the four Democrats on policies and
rhetoric, but added, “the President’s tweets were inappropriate, denigrating,
and wrong. It is unacceptable to tell legal U.S. citizens to go back to their
home country.”
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“As Jews, we’re all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice... the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists.”
Jonathan
Greenblatt
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Trump couldn’t admit he was wrong and went on to defend his language, saying without evidence, that the four women “hate our country.” All four, he said, again without evidence, had talked of “evil Jews.”
Trump tried to defend himself by saying the four were anti-Israel. But the Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish organization that has long fought anti-Semitism and racism, blasted his position.
“As Jews, we’re all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,” Jonathan Greenblatt, League CEO and national director, responded. “While the ADL has publicly disagreed with these congresswomen on some issues, the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists and cynically using the Jewish people and the state of Israel as a shield to double down on his remarks.”
Cynical racism?
That’s the Trump brand.
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“The worst president in the history of this country.”
LONGTIME Texas judge Elsa Alcala announces that she has had enough. She is leaving the Republican Party. “It has taken me years to say this publicly but here I go,” she said in a Facebook post. “President Trump is the worst president in the history of this country. Even accepting that Trump has had some successes – and I believe these are few – at his core, his ideology is racism,” she continued. “To me, nothing positive about him could absolve him of his rotten core.”
Worst president ever?
Presidential historian Jon Meachem is blunt in his assessment. “And what the president’s done here is, yet again, because he did it after Charlottesville and I think he did it, frankly, when he was pushing the birther lie about President Obama,” Meachem explained to Newsweek, “is he has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president in American history [emphasis added].”
(Meachem later makes it clear he
means the most racist since the Civil War, which ended slavery.)
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IN NON-RACIST news, Jason Miller, former communications chief for the 2016 campaign and the Trump transition team admits in court that “he hired numerous prostitutes and visited ‘hand job’ massage parlors as recently as a few months ago.” Miller is suing the website Gizmodo for defamation, after a reporter posted a story – based on court documents – saying that Miller had slipped an “abortion pill” to a Florida strip club dancer he impregnated.
In initial court hearings,
Miller puts some dents in his defamation case when he admits visiting “happy
ending” massage parlors as recently as this past spring. He can recall having
sex with an “escort” in 2015 and again in the early months of 2017. By that
time, Trump had named him communications director for his administration.
Miller’s chances for a plum position were quashed when the “Fake News” folks
began turning up evidence that he had been conducting multiple affairs
while working on the 2016 campaign. At the time, Miller’s wife, Kelly, had been
pregnant.
A final dent to Miller’s position came when defense attorneys quizzed him about those affairs. “Your mistress got mad at you because she thought you were sleeping with … your [other] mistress; correct?” an attorney for Gizmodo inquired.
Yes, the plaintiff agreed.
And did we mention that Miller impregnated one of his mistresses, who did at least go on to have his child.
Can someone get the guy a
box of condoms!
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