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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Makes Pathetic Excuse for Trump’s Silence Over Coast Guard MAGA Terrorist
On Monday a self-avowed white supremacist Trump supporter was arrested in a terror plot to murder leading Democrats and journalists that Donald Trump has singled out for abuse.
According to court documents unsealed this week, Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested Friday on gun and drug possession charges. But prosecutors said that was “the proverbial tip of the iceberg,” pointing to rantings against liberal ideology and a target list that included House Speaker Nanci Pelosi, figures from CNN and MSNBC and a number of members of Congress.
He also made “thousands” of visits to pro-Russian, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi web pages.
And to dispel the possibility that the rantings were words without threat, prosecutors filed a picture in court documents showing a major arsenal of 15 firearms, both handguns and military-style rifles, and ammunition boxes packed with more than 1,000 rounds.
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“The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct,” prosecutors said in a memo begging a judge to keep Lt. Hasson detained.
Trump has thus been quiet about the case, and when asked about it on Friday morning, Sarah Huckabee Sanders deflected.
A reporter asked Sanders whether Trump holds any responsibility after his divisive language about the press, including calling the press the “enemy of the people.”
She responded that Trump hasn’t “at any point” done anything “but condemn violence, against journalists or anyone else.”
Of course this is a lie, and Twitter pointed it out:
it might surprise ABC News' social media team to learn that the president praised a sitting congressman for violently assaulting a reporter https://t.co/uA400XEScR
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 22, 2019
it's been roughly 48 hours since the president tweeted that the New York Times was a "true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" https://t.co/ZIeqjqZsvH
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 22, 2019
"Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!” … "Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court.” … "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK?” —DJT https://t.co/dKGnARVDZz
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) February 22, 2019
This is a blatant, easily provable lie. https://t.co/JvnkL4elk0
— Dave Miller (@ChiSoxDave) February 22, 2019
WATCH:
After arrest of Coast Guard lieutenant, who allegedly amassed weapons and compiled list of Democratic lawmakers and journalists, Sarah Sanders says Pres. Trump hasn't "at any point" done anything "but condemn violence, against journalists or anyone else." https://t.co/vD1SnbtLMf pic.twitter.com/JO6LCpexIm
— ABC News (@ABC) February 22, 2019
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