VP Joe Biden pointed out last week that Trump has suggested that as President he can lean on the Trump U judge to rule his way.
Yesterday Trump was again attacking the press. Now he's banned the Washington Post for allegedly lying about his saying that Obama might sympathize with terrorists.
"Donald Trump continued to spew disgusting, offensive and patently false hate talk today, this time bashing all Muslims following the terrible mass shooting yesterday in Orlando at Pulse Nightclub."
Earlier today, Trump said: "For months, and despite so many attacks, [Obama] repeatedly refused to even say the words 'radical Islam'."
The attack came on the same day that Hillary Clinton came out and said, "Whether you call it Radical Jihadism or Radical Islamism I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either."
"Trump further insinuated that President Obama was a terrorist sympathizer! The nerve, the shocking gall to even suggest that our President would support extremism is treason, in my opinion."
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/donald-trump-has-almost-completed-his
Jake Tapper, though, has the goods on Trump in this one:
"I reached out to the Trump campaign hours ago for clarification as to what specifically Mr. Trump was suggesting about the president. I have not yet heard back. Now, the interpretation from the reliably pro Trump New York Post was the following, quote "Trump: Maybe Obama Sympathizes With The Terrorists." That can't be, though, right? I mean, he just revoked the press credentials of the Washington Post for making that exact same interpretation. So he could not possibly be saying that the president of the United States who sent thousands of US troops, not to mention drones all over the world to kill radical Islamic terrorists, that he secretly sympathizes with these twisted, homicidal Islamic psychopaths.
Yesterday Trump was again attacking the press. Now he's banned the Washington Post for allegedly lying about his saying that Obama might sympathize with terrorists.
"Donald Trump continued to spew disgusting, offensive and patently false hate talk today, this time bashing all Muslims following the terrible mass shooting yesterday in Orlando at Pulse Nightclub."
Earlier today, Trump said: "For months, and despite so many attacks, [Obama] repeatedly refused to even say the words 'radical Islam'."
The attack came on the same day that Hillary Clinton came out and said, "Whether you call it Radical Jihadism or Radical Islamism I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either."
"Trump further insinuated that President Obama was a terrorist sympathizer! The nerve, the shocking gall to even suggest that our President would support extremism is treason, in my opinion."
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/donald-trump-has-almost-completed-his
Jake Tapper, though, has the goods on Trump in this one:
"I reached out to the Trump campaign hours ago for clarification as to what specifically Mr. Trump was suggesting about the president. I have not yet heard back. Now, the interpretation from the reliably pro Trump New York Post was the following, quote "Trump: Maybe Obama Sympathizes With The Terrorists." That can't be, though, right? I mean, he just revoked the press credentials of the Washington Post for making that exact same interpretation. So he could not possibly be saying that the president of the United States who sent thousands of US troops, not to mention drones all over the world to kill radical Islamic terrorists, that he secretly sympathizes with these twisted, homicidal Islamic psychopaths.
"I reached out to a conservative friend of mine who is voting for Mr. Trump. He says he thinks Trump is suggesting that President Obama, because of his quote” leftist politics or sympathy to Islam in general” is reluctant to identify the radical strain of Islam as the cause of this horror. Perhaps, that seems to me, a rather charitable interpretation given Mr. Trump’s comments that Obama quote gets it better than anybody understands, but the truth is I don't know for sure what Mr. Trump was suggesting because it was an allusion to a more nefarious motivation that Mr. Trump would not specify. Now look, on a day like today it’s tough to get too worked up about anything other than that which is immediately relevant to the heinous terrorist attack from Sunday morning. But if Mr. Trump was not suggesting what so many folks, including his fans thought he was, he should probably clarify it because an accusation by a major party presidential nominee, that an American president sympathizes with these religious fanatics who bring nothing but hatred and death throughout the world and killed in cold blood 49 innocent people just a few hours ago in Orlando, well, that accusation would be ridiculous and, frankly, truly offensive."
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/06/13/tapper-excoriates-trump-s-truly-offensive-claim-obama-sympathizes-these-religious-fanatics/210910
For more on Trump's Washington Post ban see Media Matters.
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/13/trump-revokes-washington-posts-press-credentials/210907
Off topic, the tendency of Trump and much of the GOP to link every lone wolf attack in the US to ISIS gives ISIS too much credit and exactly what it wants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/how-the-islamic-state-exploits-americas-mass-shooting-problem/?tid=sm_tw
"Analysts, though, noted that there is a distinction between attacks directed by the Islamic State and those inspired by it — and it's a distinction the group likes to blur. "People are so ready to give the Islamic State as much credit as possible, as it's easier to compute," said Charlie Winter, a terrorism analyst at Georgia State University. "The organization is getting exactly what it wants whenever it wants."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/how-the-islamic-state-exploits-americas-mass-shooting-problem/?tid=sm_tw
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/06/13/tapper-excoriates-trump-s-truly-offensive-claim-obama-sympathizes-these-religious-fanatics/210910
For more on Trump's Washington Post ban see Media Matters.
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/13/trump-revokes-washington-posts-press-credentials/210907
Off topic, the tendency of Trump and much of the GOP to link every lone wolf attack in the US to ISIS gives ISIS too much credit and exactly what it wants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/how-the-islamic-state-exploits-americas-mass-shooting-problem/?tid=sm_tw
"Analysts, though, noted that there is a distinction between attacks directed by the Islamic State and those inspired by it — and it's a distinction the group likes to blur. "People are so ready to give the Islamic State as much credit as possible, as it's easier to compute," said Charlie Winter, a terrorism analyst at Georgia State University. "The organization is getting exactly what it wants whenever it wants."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/how-the-islamic-state-exploits-americas-mass-shooting-problem/?tid=sm_tw
While Obama has gotten creamed for saying that ISIS is the JV team, Trump and the GOP commit the error of making ISIS way too big.
So far today, Jen Rubin is continuing her onslaught against Trump.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Erickson falls off the deep end, blaming cosmologists (i.e. people like Sean Carroll (though he doesn't specify him by name) and other "neo-pagans" for turning Americans into terrorists.
I notice that Trump didn't point out that Mateen was from Queens. What other despicable characters are from Queens? =)
ReplyDelete(Mike, you were born in England, right? Not Queens? Lol)
I'm sure you've heard about the Russians hacking into DNC oppo research on Trump by now. Erickson is convinced it was for Trump's benefit:
ReplyDeletehttp://theresurgent.com/donald-trump-probably-has-his-opposition-research-file-now/