{"id":42385,"date":"2019-08-04T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T19:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42385"},"modified":"2019-08-04T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T19:24:23","slug":"trump-wont-condemn-white-nationalist-domestic-terrorists-for-fear-of-offending-his-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42385","title":{"rendered":"Trump Won’t Condemn White Nationalist Domestic Terrorists for Fear of Offending His Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

The casualties are piling up as gun violence in America continues unabated. And it is impossible to tolerate any longer the right-wing mantra of “thoughts and prayers”<\/em> while they do absolutely nothing constructive to solve the problem. To the contrary, Republicans in Congress work affirmatively to obstruct common sense solutions that the American people want in unprecedented majorities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t about mental health. It’s not about video games or prayer in school. It’s about easy access to weapons of war and the flagrant racism and hate speech of Donald Trump and his ilk. There have been more mass shootings<\/a><\/strong> (250) in 2019 than there have days (219). And while Democrats have passed bills in the House of Representatives, Republicans, and particularly GOP leader Mitch McConnell, have refused to even allow a vote on any of those bills.<\/p>\n

For his part, Donald Trump remains aloof and unable to tear himself away from his golf game, or Fox News, long enough to address this crisis with any measure of the seriousness it demands. A real president would deliver an Oval Office speech condemning the white nationalists who are responsible for the majority of fatalities related terrorism in the U.S. That’s a conclusion that even the Trump-appointed FBI director affirmed<\/a><\/strong>. It would be nice if we had a real president.<\/p>\n

But Trump himself will not even acknowledge that there is a problem with right-wing violence. In fact, he literally downplays any significant occurrence of it. Following the slaughter at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Trump dismissed<\/a><\/strong> the growing threat of white nationalism saying that “I think it\u2019s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The words “white nationalist terrorism”<\/em> have never passed through Trump’s lips. And this is despite his being one of the most vocal critics of President Obama for not using the inaccurate and inflammatory phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”<\/em> Trump even called for Obama to resign on Twitter asking…<\/p>\n

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Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn't he should immediately resign in disgrace!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n