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hoolstoptheheels

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How about because Seattle is not president of the US.


He doesn't carry the moral imperatives of the Oval Office on his words. That failure last year was the president's.

He most without any question IMO encouraged the behavior of the White Supremacists who invaded C-ville last year. He made statements that left reporters shouting at him on the day of the deadly protests, by refusing to isolate the philosophy of hate exhibited by only one side. He walked that failure back in prepared remarks that following Monday. If he'd left it there, I would have little disagreement with you. He didn't. In Trump Tower the following day, speaking extemporaneously, so not from remarks prepared for him, but more from his heart, he abandoned his walk-back from the prior day completely.

Which brought him an "attaboy" from David Dukes, which is the strongest public indicator you could hope to get from a bunch of racists that they were, in fact, quite encouraged by the president's remarks. It was a whole lot more than mere misdirection.

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Posted: 10/10/2018 at 11:05AM



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