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Johnny2X2X

(19,114 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 01:20 PM Oct 2018

Trump is directly responsible for the propaganda that led to yesterday's massacre!

I want to hear this on the news over and over, it's a fact, if not for Trump the massacre yesterday would not have happened.

Let me explain. The caravan was the reason the killer cited for the attack. This killer would have had no idea there was even a caravan of refugees anywhere if Trump had not chosen it as his primary campaign issue for the mid term elections. There was a bigger caravan in May, this killer took no action then, because he didn't even know about it. And further, if Trump and the right had portrayed the caravan accurately the killer wouldn't have been outraged. But Trump portrayed this caravan as a product of Jewish bankers including George Soros who were funding it and filling it with criminals to invade the United States to influence the election. Trump even repeated a Neo Nazi generated lie that there were Middle Eastern Terrorists placed into the caravan by the Jews to invade and attack America.

If Trump hadn't chosen to make this an election issue those people are alive today. If trump hadn't given credibility to far right antisemitic conspiracies by repeating them the last couple weeks this killer likely doesn't commit his massacre yesterday.

Trump is directly responsible for the propaganda that this man claims caused him to kill. He needs to be called out for this.

And people still spreading lies and distortions about the caravan need to be held accountable too, they have blood on their hands.

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