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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 01:57 PM Dec 2016

Allen West recently praised a plan to exterminate Muslims, and now hes meeting with Donald Trump

Source: salon

Monday, Dec 12, 2016 11:34 AM CST

The former Tea Party congressman's genocidal meme was about Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Gen. James Mattis
Sophia Tesfaye




Former Florida Tea Party congressman turned right-wing pundit Allen West returned to Trump Tower for his second visit with the president-elect and his transition team in one week, even as he failed to publicly apologize for sharing a meme with his 2.5 million Facebook followers that praised Donald Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon for his plan to “exterminate” Muslims.

When West, rumored to be in talks to join Trump’s national security team, arrived for his second meeting with the president-elect on Monday, he was remarkably not asked by any member of the gathered press about the meme he shared praising Trump’s pick to be defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis.

Mattis, an Obama appointee, stepped down from his United States Central Command in 2013, just months after recommending to the president that at least 13,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan past the scheduled end of the combat mission in 2014.

Shortly after midnight Friday, West praised Mattis with a meme posted to his official Facebook post. The meme showed Mattis with the words “Fired by Obama to please the Muslims. Hired by Trump to exterminate them”:

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/12/12/allen-west-recently-praised-a-plan-to-exterminate-muslims-and-now-hes-meeting-with-donald-trump/

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BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
2. I read the title of this OP and absolutely shuddered.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 02:06 PM
Dec 2016

I have never felt so afraid for our country. I feel sick with worry about the perversions he's going to promulgate, and I fear for the safety of my co-citizens.

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
3. He's sending out the message hey, it's OK to hate, kill and maim. They are the enemy, they are
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 02:11 PM
Dec 2016

why you are losers. This guy about to go into the WH is clearly a madman. Also, he is going to provoke some kind of war for sure IMO, and hard to tell what that might escalate into. We are in such deep sh** I can't even believe this is the US.

keithbvadu2

(36,770 posts)
6. Here's another Trump supporter, Pamela Taylor, who considers West an "ape".
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:56 PM
Dec 2016

Here's another Trump supporter, Pamela Taylor, who considers West an "ape".

Maybe Trump could put them on a committee together.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/an-ape-in-heels-wv-officials-slur-michelle-obama-and-say-melania-trump-will-be-refreshing/

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