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Donald Trump's ex-butler calls for Obama to be killedhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36283242
Your "anti-establishment" candidate *has a butler*
Just to review: a white nationalist became a Trump delegate, his butler suggested Obama be hanged and David Duke offered to be VP this week
THE BUTLER DID IT
Trumps Butler Hates Negroes, Wanted to Carpet Bomb Ferguson, Called Killery Clinton a C**t******************
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/12/trump-s-butler-hates-negroes-wanted-to-carpet-bomb-ferguson-called-killery-clinton-a-c-t.html
The former butler of stately Trump Manor is a racist, sexist nutjob who issues lurid Facebook fatwas calling for the death of President Obama for being a foreign-born muzzy, refers to black people as negroes in the manner of Cliven Bundy, suggests that American cities should be obliterated for ethnic cleansing purposes and calls future president Hillary Clinton a cunt who should be summarily lynched.
The fact that the man who used to play Alfred to Trumps Batman is the distilled essence of the white nationalist element of every Trump rally ever held isnt important news, apparently. It was reported, but as a sideshow item, as if it revealed nothing more about Trump except how hard it is to get good help these days. The story doesnt appear above the fold at the moment at CNN, The New York Times or other major media outlets. (Imagine the screaming headlines and calls for congressional hearings that would result if the woman who scrubs Hillary Clintons toilets were revealed as a moon landing doubter.)
But lets not pretend this has nothing to do with Trump. The butler did it, but Colonel Marmalade was seen in the conservatory with the crack pipe. So maybe some enterprising Beltway journalist could get a fucking clue and use this unfortunate butler incident as an opening to revisit the GOP nominees birther activities. Heretofore, when asked about birtherism by reporters, Trump says, I dont talk about that anymore. What kind of lame-ass reporter lets an interview subject get away with that? (Cooper, Tapper, Blitzer, et al.)
Imagine if Hillary Clinton tried to deflect a question by airily proclaiming that she doesnt talk about it anymore. She wouldnt get away with it. The complaint here isnt that theres a double standard; of course theres a double standard, which is why Trump can babble about Bill Clintons 25-year-old horn-dog behavior without having his own piggish history, which includes rape allegations, put under the media microscope. The bygones they are gone by!
The fact that the man who used to play Alfred to Trumps Batman is the distilled essence of the white nationalist element of every Trump rally ever held isnt important news, apparently. It was reported, but as a sideshow item, as if it revealed nothing more about Trump except how hard it is to get good help these days. The story doesnt appear above the fold at the moment at CNN, The New York Times or other major media outlets. (Imagine the screaming headlines and calls for congressional hearings that would result if the woman who scrubs Hillary Clintons toilets were revealed as a moon landing doubter.)
But lets not pretend this has nothing to do with Trump. The butler did it, but Colonel Marmalade was seen in the conservatory with the crack pipe. So maybe some enterprising Beltway journalist could get a fucking clue and use this unfortunate butler incident as an opening to revisit the GOP nominees birther activities. Heretofore, when asked about birtherism by reporters, Trump says, I dont talk about that anymore. What kind of lame-ass reporter lets an interview subject get away with that? (Cooper, Tapper, Blitzer, et al.)
Imagine if Hillary Clinton tried to deflect a question by airily proclaiming that she doesnt talk about it anymore. She wouldnt get away with it. The complaint here isnt that theres a double standard; of course theres a double standard, which is why Trump can babble about Bill Clintons 25-year-old horn-dog behavior without having his own piggish history, which includes rape allegations, put under the media microscope. The bygones they are gone by!
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It Wasn’t Just the Butler Who Did It (Original Post)
kpete
May 2016
OP
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)1. Your "anti-establishment" candidate *has a butler*
When I saw that Trumps butler threatened the President, the first thought was Trump has a butler? Then it was like why am I surprised and all those Trumpsters are fools.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)2. tRump sycophants believe that soon they too will have butlers. Only gubmint regulation
prevents this.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. He totally looks like Alfred.
But he's the one who should be hanging upside-down in a cave.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)4. He wants to talk about treason?
This is treason to me:
A would-be president that sends this kind of message to children with disabilities everywhere who are watching:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-trump-mocks-disabled-reporter-20151125-story.html
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. is there a Col. Mustard working for the Trump campaign? they might be in on it together