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dalton99a

(81,428 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 05:16 PM May 2020

Trump Promotes Posts From Racist and Sexist Twitter Feed (NYT)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/politics/trump-tweets-racist.html

Trump Promotes Posts From Racist and Sexist Twitter Feed
On a somber Memorial Day weekend, the president did not mention the mounting coronavirus toll and instead retweeted personal attacks on his political rivals.
By Annie Karni
May 24, 2020

Mr. Trump reposted eight tweets from John K. Stahl, a conservative former political candidate, including attacks on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Stacey Abrams, the black former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives who is considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential pick.

Mr. Stahl, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California’s 52nd District in 2012, has a history of derogatory posts, especially against black women. He has referred online to Senator Kamala Harris of California — who is of Indian and Jamaican descent and is another potential running mate for Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee — as “Willie’s Ho,” an apparent reference to Willie Brown, the powerful California State Assembly speaker who was her mentor and onetime boyfriend.

Mr. Stahl has called Ms. Abrams “Shamu” and posted racist remarks about Joy Reid, the African-American MSNBC host. “When you’re born butt ugly, changing your hairstyle every day is only going to make you look phonier than you nonsense, pathetic show,” he wrote of Ms. Reid, calling her a “skank.”

Among the posts Mr. Trump retweeted on Saturday, one accused Ms. Pelosi of wearing dentures and drinking “booze on the job.” Another mocked Ms. Abrams’s appearance by saying that she “visited every buffet restaurant in the State” during her unsuccessful campaign for Georgia governor, and that Mr. Biden would be “a racist if he doesn’t pick her” as his running mate.

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Trump Promotes Posts From Racist and Sexist Twitter Feed (NYT) (Original Post) dalton99a May 2020 OP
That's nice the NYT is calling Out BLOTUS for his Cha May 2020 #1
Isn't it a refreshing change, Cha? And, no surprise; when I spooky3 May 2020 #2
john k stahl does Nothig But Project.. Cha May 2020 #3
Post removed Post removed May 2020 #4
Here's what John K. Stahl looks like . . . indeed a ugly shithole of a "person" MagickMuffin May 2020 #5
Not that anyone is surprised Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #6

spooky3

(34,427 posts)
2. Isn't it a refreshing change, Cha? And, no surprise; when I
Sun May 24, 2020, 05:49 PM
May 2020

Looked up Stahl, he turned out to be, shall we say, the polar opposite of Brad Pitt.

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