Psaki: 'No Question' That Trump Admin's Rhetoric Has 'Elevated Threats Against Asian Americans'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said there is “no question” that the Trump administration’s “damaging rhetoric” has led to “elevated threats against Asian Americans.”

“I think there’s no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration — blaming, calling COVID the ‘Wuhan virus’ or other things led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair and … has elevated threats against Asian Americans,” Psaki said during a press briefing.

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The press secretary’s comments came one day after a Tuesday-night shooting spree at three Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead, including six Asian-American women. However, officials said Wednesday the attack may not have been racially motivated as previously thought.

Shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long took “full responsibility” for the shootings, police said, adding that while the rampage was initially believed to be part of a rising number of hate crimes against Asian Americans, Long allegedly opened fire at the spas because he saw them as “an outlet for him” to feed a sex-addiction temptation that he was trying to “eliminate.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/psaki-no-trump-admin-rhetoric-204604704.html

[machoneman]

1. Ooh, McCarthy will be apoplectic by tomorrow morning. How dare she say that!

Trump never said anything like that?

[gratuitous]

2. That'll go over well with the Republicans

And that's too bad, so sad.