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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:20 PM May 2016

Here's What Happens When Trump Refuses To Denounce His Racist Neo-Nazi Supporters

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/05/06/heres-what-happens-when-trump-refuses-denounce-his-racist-neo-nazi-supporters/210275

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has thrilled and emboldened his racist online neo-Nazi supporters with his refusal to denounce them in a recent CNN interview.

Reporter Julia Ioffe recently wrote a profile of Melania Trump for GQ which was criticized by Melania Trump for purportedly being unfair. The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that’s endorsed Trump, responded to Ioffe’s piece by directing followers to “go ahead and send her a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty kike trickery.”

What followed was a barrage of anti-Semitic messages and death threats against the reporter. Ioffe told CNN that Trump fans have been sending her “the most obscene, anti-Semitic stuff I have frankly ever seen directed at me in my life.” She “also received a call from someone claiming to be from a company called ‘Overnight Caskets.’ ‘We got an email with your phone number saying you'd need our services,’ Ioffe detailed in a post on her Facebook page.”

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Trump on May 4 and asked if he would denounce the anti-Semitic death threats against Ioffe. Trump refused to condemn the threats, saying he was unaware of them and adding, “I don’t have a message to the fans. A woman wrote a article that was inaccurate.”


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Here's What Happens When Trump Refuses To Denounce His Racist Neo-Nazi Supporters (Original Post) KamaAina May 2016 OP
Expected backlash. Behind the Aegis May 2016 #1

Behind the Aegis

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1. Expected backlash.
Fri May 6, 2016, 09:44 PM
May 2016

Anti-Semitism is a "go to" for oh so many people, but then again, some say she deserved it because she misrepresented Melania, and some say the journalist deserved it because she is part of the "media". Just goes to show, there are always those who can find times when bigotry, especially anti-Semitism, can be "acceptable" sometimes.

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