During a campaign rally in Aston, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Donald Trump dismissed the “narrative of cops as a racist force” and said that those who push that narrative, including Hillary Clinton, contribute to unrest following fatal police shootings.
“Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society — and this is a narrative that is supported with a nod by my opponent, you see what she’s saying, and it’s not good — share responsibly and the unrest that is afflicting our country and hurting those who have really the very least,” Trump said, according to the Washington Post.
Trump’s comment followed two nights of violent protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man, though Trump never mentioned Charlotte by name, according to NBC News.
The Republican nominee said that “the problem is not that there are too many police. The problem is that there are not enough police,” according to NBC.
He criticized Clinton and accused her of not caring about those living in poverty in the U.S.
“Hillary Clinton does not have to worry about the sirens and the gunshots. She doesn’t worry about it. She’s sleeping, she’s sleeping,” Trump said, according to the Washington Post. “No, it’s the poor family living in the inner city, it’s the poor mother who feels like a refugee in her own country. Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to hear their voices, so I will be their voice.”
Nope. She’s simply acknowledged a known FACT.
So over this horrible excuse for a human.
The issues surrounding these shootings are incredibly complex. Last night on The Daily Show, Lisa Ling noted that there are different levels of training with regards to things like deescalation, confrontation of suspected criminals, and so forth. This plays into the number of shootings. After all, most of them are in the South, or so it appears. Noah the day before noted that there seems to be this assumption of criminality made by police when approaching a Black suspect that is out of proportion with the reality. Racism plays a part in it, but so does an assumption of criminal life being worth less than the lives of non-criminals. When you add the fact that gun laws are to the point of being bizarre, we’re hitting a point where cops feel threatened no matter what.
But, of course, Trump’s entire view is round up all the ‘thugs’ (Blacks), and terrorists (Muslims).
Said America’s #1 dog whistle racist. Trump has perfected the Pee Wee Herman campaign style: I know you are but what am I?
The reflexive schoolyard bully projection. Whatever insult he hurls at an opponent, or merely someone who punctured his fragile ego, comes directly from that little inner voice, which I suspect sounds a lot like Fred’s, telling him that’s what he really is. Whatever he accuses an opponent of doing is a thing he is actually doing.
I simply do not recall an accusation or insult of his that this doesn’t apply to. Even the birtherism: Obama a liar and a fraud because phony birth certificate? Yeah, says the professional grifter.
Unlike that elitist Clinton, Trump has been down with 'hood all his life – surviving day-to-day on the hardscrabble streets of his Trump Tower penthouse, hustling out a living on his private jet, with only his brownshirts out there in the audience to protect him from the scary Code Pink women who bleed from everywhere all over everything.