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I know it's been 48 hours since a white supremacist Islamophobe murdered 49 people, and in our modern culture, that's now the social media equivalent of 2 months, but I need to remind us of something. Two days ago a man murdered 49 people and said Trump was his cultural hero.
72 hours ago the President of the United States bragged that his base of supporters, including white biker gangs, cops, and the military were calm now, but were fully ready and willing to get violent if he needed them to. No modern President has ever made such a public threat.
24 hours ago a reporter asked Donald Trump if white supremacist violence was a growing problem in the United States and around the world. Trump boldly and clearly said "No." White supremacist violence grew by 182% LAST YEAR alone in the United States. And Trump said no.
Do not allow the normal passage of time to normalize the overt bigotry and existential threat of Donald Trump. The past 72 hours have been 3 of the most dangerous and bigoted days of his entire presidency from his veto of Congress for a bigoted wall on down.
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@waltshaub
I find this type of rhetoric deeply disturbing, divisive, and threatening. Words like this should not be used against the American people and are not to be taken lightly.
I demand accountability for such words.
@SenWarren
@sethmoulton
@EdMarkey
Also Putin uses Russian biker gangs in eastern Europe to signal an invasion or bully citizens when he is not pleased with policies. Trump knows this and has admired this in Putin. He doesn't want to be President only a cheap oligarch.
Still not sure why we are putting up with this.
This happened in Brazil a day prior to the New Zealand! LETS PRAY AND CHANGE THIS WORLD
“Not all right wing extremist hate speech ends in violence. But all right wing extremist violence starts with hate speech.” Bill Shorten ( hopefully Australia’s next PM)
I wrote my city council and asked them what our small town police are doing about this.
Sometimes I wonder if Trump even understands the implications of what he says, and regardless of whether he does or not, the result is terrifying.
Sort of a ramped up version of the homophobic Berner who went after HRC’s daughter?
Weird question on this: since we know trump projects can we actually assume the cops and military are NOT on his side??? (I’ll give him bikers for Trump)
Thank you. This timing seemed like, er, an unfortunate coincidence at best.
They’ve never been so unlearned either.
The double standard is appalling! What if Obama had said anything close to this threat?
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