Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a statement late Friday that “violence has no place in our politics” after protests forced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to cancel his event.
Clinton said that “many people” in the U.S. “feel angry.”
“We need to address that anger together,” Clinton said.
Here’s her full statement:
The divisive rhetoric we are seeing should be of grave concern to us all. We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country feel angry. We need to address that anger together. All of us, no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should not only say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together. Last year in Charleston, South Carolina an evil man walked into a church and murdered 9 people. The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the statehouse and the confederate flag came down. That should be the model we strive for to overcome painful divisions in our country.
Ms. Jerde, did this strike you as a newsworthy press release?
(Man, is this site buggy recently.)
It’s also on the front page of the Post under Abby Phillips’ byline. In that story Hillary is blamed for not saying Trumps name while condemning violence. It seems that people want Hillary to condemn violence by Trump supporters but not the violence done by anti-Trump supporters.
I would not be surprised that there has been some violence perpetrated by anti-Trump protesters, but as far as I know, the reports of last night indicate that some fights broke out between Trump supporters and protesters, without any indication as to who instigated the fights. (For what it´s worth, my friend who was at the anti-Trump rally last night said it was peaceful as far as she could see.) OTOH, there have been numerous examples of violence visited upon protesters by Trump supporters prior to last night. So I think it´s fair to say at this point that the violence is primarily coming from that side.
Distracts from Funeral-gate which, as I’ve read in the only recently working comments section, no one is allowed to hold against Hillary.
Hillary’s campaign slogan, “I’ll fight for you” is in appropriate.