Dan Rather blasts Trump for not treating Portland attack as a terrorist act
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Dear President Trump,
Their names were Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best. One was a recent college graduate. The other was an army veteran and father of four. I wish we would hear you say these names, or even just tweet them. They were brave Americans who died at the hands of someone who, when all the facts are collected, we may have every right to call a terrorist. A third brave man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, was wounded in the knife attack.
This story may not neatly fit into a narrative you pushed on the campaign trail and that has followed you into the White House. They were not killed by an undocumented immigrant or a "radical Islamic terrorist." They were killed in an act of civic love, facing down a man allegedly spewing hate speech directed at two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab. That man seems to have a public record of "extremist ideology" - a term issued by the Portland Police Bureau.
This "extremism" may be of a different type than gets most of your attention, or even the attention in the press. But that doesn't make it any less serious, or deadly. And this kind of "extremism" is on the rise, especially in the wake of your political ascendency. Most people who study these sorts of things do not think that is a coincidence. I do not blame you directly for this incident. Nor do I think other people should. But what a President says, who he has around him, and the tone he sets can set the tone for the nation at large.
Perhaps Portland, Oregon is off your radar. It is, after all, a rather liberal place. It's even a "sanctuary city." But it is still an American city. And you are its President. Two Americans have died leaving family and friends behind. They are mourned by millions more who are also deeply worried about what might come next.
I hope you can find it worthy of your time to take notice.
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has 45 tried to bring this country together. He knows darned well that white supremacists are among his "base", and hasn't done ONE THING to try to control these animals. Not ONE WORD to the alt-right to cool things down. On the contrary, he's done everything possible to fan the flames of hate and intolerance. His supporters LOVE the fact that it's open season on journalists now. There WILL BE more attacks on the media, you can count on it.
There has never been such a failure in politics at ANY LEVEL, than Trump has been as President. 
He is the absolute WORST, and this country can't survive much longer with this jerkoff in the Oval Office.
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speaks loudly. His silence is tacit approval of violence against his political opponents.
Frankly at this point, the president* could condemn this murder, and condemn the beatdown of a journalist in Montana, and condemn any number of other hateful things that have happened now that the right-wing radicals are so emboldened.
I wouldn't believe a word of it. 
Peace to those 3 brave men. 
