After Charlie Kirk's death, Trump Jr. falsely claims trans people more dangerous than al-Qaeda

[milestogo]

Donald Trump Jr. has made the outrageous and false claim that transgender people are more dangerous than terrorist groups. Trump Jr. made the comment Thursday on The Megyn Kelly Show in the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s shooting death — and on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

“I can’t name, including probably like al Qaeda and the Taliban, a group that is more violent per capita than the radical trans moment,” Trump Jr. said. The 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda, a terrorist group with a radical interpretation of Islam. He said there may be more “mass killings” that are not known to the public “because you’re not allowed to talk about the truth.”

“I’m sure people are totally sane after jacking themselves up on hormones given to them by some rainbow hair freak doctor because they think men can somehow magically become women,” he said sarcastically. He also falsely claimed that violence and hate speech are coming only from the left.

In reality, the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men — 95 percent of the perpetrators in shootings tracked since 1966 were male, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government. And almost all have been cisgender.

https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-jr-transgender-terrorists

Not The Onion.

[TommyT139]

2. "rainbow hair freak doctor"

Too too funny, if you've ever seen a group of endocrinologists, doctors, and surgeons at a conference.

Someone needs a drug test.

[MineralMan]

3. Utterly ridiculous!

The transgender people I know have all been more in fear, themselves, than a danger to anyone.

[Haggard Celine]

4. The turd doesn't fall very far from the asshole.

[bigtree]

5. 1.3 percent of all shooters

According to figures from the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 131 mass shootings this year, and there were 647 in 2022. In total, there have been 2,861 mass shootings in the U.S. since 2018. Some have had more than one perpetrator.

"4 shooters out of over 300 mass shooters since 2009 are transgender or non binary. That's just 1.3 percent of all shooters," Anthony Zenkus, a lecturer in social work at Columbia University, wrote on Twitter. "You just proved our point: 99 percent of mass shooters in the United States are cis gendered."

https://www.newsweek.com/mass-shootings-transgender-perpetrators-1790854

[hildegaard28]

7. You can't

Use math, statistics, or any of that stuff with Republicans. They don't understand it, even the simple concept of larger and smaller numbers. They can't read, either.

[hildegaard28]

6. Maybe he

Meant to say white, Christian, Republican men. Because that is who commits most of the political violence in this country.

[Solly Mack]

8. He's another hate-monger.

[milestogo]

9. He's either totally brainwashed or totally delusional.

Or both.

[Solly Mack]

10. Completely delusional. He's in it for the attention, the money that comes with it - his own Trump brand.