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Trump Once Again Showed He Only Speaks Up Quickly After an Attack if Perpetrator Is Presumed To Be Muslim
By Daniel Politi
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/04/trump_reacts_quickly_to_attacks_only_if_perpetrator_is_presumed_to_be_muslim.html
It didnt take long for President Donald Trump to go on Twitter and comment on this weekends terror attack in London. And that followed a clear pattern for the commander in chief, who seems eager to comment on and condemn attacks when he believes the perpetrators are Muslim but is conspicuously quiet when the attackers are white extremists. Lets take a look at a few examples since he was sworn is as president (although the pattern really started long before):
Quebec mosque shooting
When a gunman shot and killed six men at a mosque in Quebec City on Jan. 29, Trump was quiet on social media. That silence was particularly conspicuous considering the attack came merely two days after Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. He doesnt tweet about everything, senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said when she was asked why the president hadnt condemned the attack on social media. "Oh, he doesn't tweet about everything?" Late Night host Seth Meyers said in response. "Because it sure feels like he does."
Kansas shooting
When a white man in Olathe, Kansas shot two Indian men, and killed one of them, at a bar in February apparently under the presumption that they were Muslim and illegal immigrants, Trump stayed silent for days. It took Trump almost a week to condemn the February 22 attack. We are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms, Trump said in a joint address to Congress six days later.
Portland train attack
When a known white supremacist killed two men and injured another in a train in Portland, Oregon last month it took Trump three days to condemn the attack. And even then it was through his official POTUS account. The two men were killed when they tried to intervene and stop the attackers hate speech toward two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. And while it took three days for Trump to issue a pretty bland Twitter statement condemning the murders, in the meantime he sent out 21 tweets that, among other things, criticized the media and pushed his tax cuts.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)rpannier
(24,330 posts)Trump would have sent a link to it
47of74
(18,470 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)and refused to admit to mental illness because it might come up in a background check for a security clearance if they can over look his murdering a church full of people.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Drummed up by the FAKE media to keep from blaming mooselim attacks on US soil.
central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)Thanks for posting!
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Racist scumbag.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Hoo boy, then Trump will blather on for a full minute about illegal immigrants, murderous foreigners, and the poor victims. To date, I've seen no indication that Trump has even mentioned the names of Best, Namkai-Meche, or Fletcher, the victims of the Portland attack.
IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)it was very weak and ineffective. Many of his supporters are the same way, refusing to admit that we have a problem of white terrorists killing Americans on US soil.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)By hate. He 's got plenty of that.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)They all bend over backwards to avoid calling white killers "terrorists," calling them "lone wolves" or "loose cannons" or the like. Even such "Liberal" media sources as NPR are guilty of this.
Trump is an absolute fuckhead idiot asshole, but on this one point I don't think he should be singled out for condemnation.