If you weren’t already disgusted enough by the overnight events in New Zealand, in which an Islamophobic white supremacist and his associates murdered nearly 50 people in attacks on two large mosques, the news today that the killer’s 714-page manifesto directly cited Donald Trump and the rise of white nationalism around the world as his motivation surely didn’t help.
But if there’s one constant in America now — if there’s a single thing that citizens of this once-proud nation can count on every time there’s a tragedy like this — it’s that Trump himself will say or do something to make the entire situation infinitely worse.
Today, the way he did that was by barely mentioning the horrific events in New Zealand, failing to mention at all that it was a terrorist attack (let alone condemn the anti-Muslim rhetoric that led to it), and swiftly moving on to topics he thought were more important — namely, the “witch hunt.”
Trump went on a tirade filled with Fox News talking points and long-debunked nonsense, so it’s not like he was even pivoting from New Zealand’s deadliest shooting in nearly 30 years to give us new commentary or useful information — just revisiting his greatest hits:
“New evidence that the Obama era team of the FBI, DOJ & CIA were working together to Spy on (and take out) President Trump, all the way back in 2015.” A transcript of Peter Strzok’s testimony is devastating. Hopefully the Mueller Report will be covering this. @OANN @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
So, if there was knowingly & acknowledged to be “zero” crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary) and now disgraced Andrew McCabe (he & all stated no crime), then the Special Counsel…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
….should never have been appointed and there should be no Mueller Report. This was an illegal & conflicted investigation in search of a crime. Russian Collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the Democrats for losing an Election that they thought they were going to win…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
…..THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
Nothing is worse than listening to this crybaby wail about the Mueller probe, but watching him do it as millions around the globe join hands and hearts in support of New Zealand and against the hateful rhetoric that led to this attack just means he doesn’t care what harm he does.
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