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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteve Schmidt...: Trump is Responsible For the 'Fulfillment of Osama bin Laden's Vision'
Steve Schmidt on Travel Ban Ruling: Trump is Responsible For the Fulfillment of Osama bin Ladens Visionby Josh Feldman | 4:46 pm, June 26th, 2018
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Former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi said that today we became a little bit less of that shining city on a hill into a country thats now closed to people not like us.
You cannot separate the policy thats been carried out at the border, Wallace added, from the Presidents celebration from what Steve Bannon described as travel ban vindication.'
Schmidt said that today was a fantastic fulfillment of Osama bin Ladens vision by Donald J. Trump.
He elaborated:
What Osama bin Laden hoped to provoke was a war of civilization. A war between the West and one billion Muslims. And so what Donald Trump and this Muslim ban signal to the world is that Muslims are not welcome here, that this iswhether the conservative justices say in fact this is about executive powerthe Presidents clear intent was to impose a religious test, and that is as fundamentally un-American as anything that hes done over the course of this presidency.
He said moderate Islam is a key force in helping defeat extremist Islamic radicalism and today was a step in the wrong direction on that.
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/steve-schmidt-on-travel-ban-ruling-trump-is-responsible-for-the-fulfillment-of-osama-bin-ladens-vision/
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Steve Schmidt...: Trump is Responsible For the 'Fulfillment of Osama bin Laden's Vision' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2018
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. He hit the real story line in the world today.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)2. Says the guy who worked to get Dubya elected
Just because he's correct about Trump doesn't exonerate Steve Schmidt from being an asshole. In fact, one of the key asholes who orchestrated the current model of the GOP and enabled Bush and our multiple botched and ongoing responses to 9/11. Fuck that guy.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)3. Schmidt is correct