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Trump Loses It on Twitter: Stop Trying To Blame Me For New Zealand!
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to accuse the news media of blaming him for last week’s deadly shootings on a pair of mosques in New Zealand.
And once again he’s blaming the “fake news media.”
“The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand. They will have to work very hard to prove that one. So Ridiculous!”
The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand. They will have to work very hard to prove that one. So Ridiculous!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2019
Some U.S. media coverage has focused on the suspected gunman’s manifesto, which called Trump a “symbol of renewed white identity,” and some pundits have argued he has stoked white nationalist fervor worldwide.
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Former Rep. Keith Ellison made that argument during a Monday morning appearance on CNN.
“I think sometimes you simply have to yield to the objective evidence, and that is, it points to him being sympathetic to that point of view,” said Ellison, who was the first Muslim elected to Congress and now serves as Minnesota attorney general.
Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to ever be elected to Congress on why Pres. Trump was not willing to say white nationalism is on the rise: “I think sometimes you simply have to yield to the objective evidence, and that is, it points to him being sympathetic to that point of view” pic.twitter.com/eekjb36l7j
— CNN (@CNN) March 18, 2019
Ellison was reacting to Trump’s comments from Friday, when the president said he does not believe white nationalism on the rise despite the shootings that left 49 people dead.
“I don’t really, I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems,” Trump told reporters.
Trump has also come under fire for his August 2017 statement that there were “very fine people on both sides” of a rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist killed a counter-protester.
White House officials have repeatedly denied that Trump harbors white nationalist views.
“The president is not a white supremacist. I’m not sure how many times we have to say that,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Twitter didn’t agree with Trump:
The Shooter Mentioned YOU Directly!https://t.co/aMfLOXzqDD
— Ryan Hill (@RyanHillMI) March 18, 2019
All they have is a signed confession by the killer https://t.co/YJD7iAbV6W
— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 18, 2019
Choice A: "In this time of grief and sorrow, we stand with our allies and their citizens no matter who they are and pray for sanity to return to a troubled world."
Choice B: This. https://t.co/kJNkgapBWR
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) March 18, 2019
The real victim of the New Zealand massacre: https://t.co/9qaent0oj9
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) March 18, 2019
The shooter wrote in his manifesto that YOU (by name) inspired him to carry out his attack on the attendees at mosque in New Zealand. It doesn't help that you continue to incite hate in this country by encouraging Americans to attack each other! The shoe fits! @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/62KHn9aX3L
— Barbara Patterson (@patte151) March 18, 2019
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