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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 06:42 PM Oct 2018

Glaring hypocrisy on hate

Dean Obeidallah
Updated 2:58 PM ET, Sun October 28, 2018

... Trump has spread religious hatred both as a candidate and as president. And he has also refused to denounce anti-Semitism when given the opportunities to do so.

Yet now Trump hypocritically tells us he opposes "any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice" ...

... Trump made fearmongering of Muslims one of the main pillars of his 2016 campaign -- with comments like "Islam hates us" and false claims that Muslims in New Jersey cheered on 9/11. And, of course, there was Trump's December 2015 call for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims" being allowed to enter our country ...

... in November 2017, he retweeted videos that had been shared on Twitter by one of the United Kingdom's most notorious anti-Muslim groups. These videos were created with the sole purpose of stirring up hate against Muslims -- and Trump helped to spread them to an even larger audience ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/28/opinions/trump-hypocrisy-hate-glaring-obeidallah/index.html

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Glaring hypocrisy on hate (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2018 OP
As far as I'm concerned, it's all on him. He knows what he's doing. libdem4life Oct 2018 #1
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
1. As far as I'm concerned, it's all on him. He knows what he's doing.
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 07:03 PM
Oct 2018

It's what Russia intended...split up the American people because there is strength in unity...weakness in division. Especially if the divisive factions are fighting each other. Meanwhile...in Congress, we lose daily. He's merely the shiny object and he knows it. I see it every time he smirks.

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