Finally...MSM says the right thing about Trump and GOP wanting a police state! Washington Post Editorial. [View all]

[Fred Sanders]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-trumps-politics-of-incitement/2015/08/21/c33d0f2e-483d-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?hpid=z6

Mr. Trump’s immigrant-bashing rhetoric breeds violence


By Editorial Board August 21 at 9:04 PM

"DONALD TRUMP’S rapidly expanding catalogue of bombast is already a weighty tome, and it’s a fool’s errand to take each of his utterances seriously. Still, his loathsome comment on Wednesday, in which he excused violence against a Hispanic man in Boston as “passionate” acts of “people who are following me,” taps into a dark vein in American history and merits special attention.

In the Boston incident, two brothers were charged with using a metal pole to assault a 58-year-old Hispanic man. The man, who was homeless, was left with a broken nose and other injuries to his face, arms and chest. “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported,” one of the brothers, Scott Leader, told police, the Boston Globe reported.

When Mr. Trump was told of the incident, in which the brothers also are alleged to have urinated on the man before beating him, he said the following: “It would be a shame. . . . I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”

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Top Comment


"It's been 24 hours since Trump made his comments defending his passionate supporters who attacked the homeless Hispanic man in Boston after urinating on him.

Perhaps I missed something, but I don't recall the other 16 declared GOP candidates for the presidency stepping forward to condemn Trump's remarks.

The GOP is a morally bankrupt political party. Trump is the perfect incarnation of what the party stands for. As the saying goes, the chickens have come home to roost, and it won't be pretty for the GOP in next year's presidential election."

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