Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush released a joint statement denouncing “racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms” on Wednesday after President Donald Trump equated protesters under those banners to counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
However, though the statement clearly appeared to be a response to Trump’s equivocations on white supremacy, the Bushes didn’t name Trump explicitly.
“America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms,” the former Presidents wrote, according to a copy of their statement posted by CNN’s Jake Tapper. “As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.”
“We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country,” they concluded.
I guess I was hoping they would tell Trump to go eff himself.
Sadly, this is not a time for grace and lovely, handwritten notes on scented, heavy rag paper.
“However, though the statement clearly appeared to be a response to Trump’s equivocations on white supremacy, the Bushes didn’t name Trump explicitly.”
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Maybe I’m a bit too emotional now but if they cannot NAME trump for what he is then the Bushes are part of the problem.
hhhhhmmmm…this is the GOP Deep State talking. Speak in carefully constructed anodyne ways. Do not ruffle feathers. Do not lose votes.
Yesterday trump showed who he supports and it wasn’t the anti-Nazis.
It occurs to me that trump ought to take a state trip to Poland to see Treblinka, Auschwitz, and the several other camps. Make him watch documentaries on the evils of the Nazis. Have him talk to survivors. Show him the ashes in the ovens. Send him back to Yad Vashem in Israel. Pound it into his head that the people who did the torch light rally on Friday at U Va are of that legacy and that by defending them as he has he makes himself part and parcel in what they believe.
I didn’t think I would ever see a president I dislike more than Nixon. I just didn’t think it would be possible. But it is.