A few hours after he delivered a statement condemning hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, President Donald Trump retweeted a post by Jack Posobiec, an alt-right linked activist who promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory.
Posobiec promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which culminated in a man bringing a gun into a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Recently, Posobiec was angered by the Anti-Defamation League’s decision to list him as a member of the “alt lite,” which the group described as a “loosely-connected movement whose adherents generally shun white supremacist thinking, but who are in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others.”
In response, Posobiec posted a video from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial saying, “It would be wise of the ADL to remember the history of what happened the last time people started going around making lists of undesirables.”
Following intense criticism for his initial response to the attack in Charlottesville that failed to condemn white nationalists, Trump on Monday gave remarks calling out those hate groups. It took him two days to clarify his comments.
Clueless.
Ask the NRA.
Yes, someone should study this problem……
Infuriated by CDC-funded research suggesting that having firearms in the home sharply increased the risks of homicide, the NRA goaded Congress in 1996 into stripping the injury center’s funding for gun violence research – $2.6 million. Congress then passed a measure drafted by then-Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.) forbidding the CDC to spend funds “to advocate or promote gun control.” (The NRA initially hoped to eradicate the injury center entirely.)
The Dickey Amendment didn’t technically ban any federally funded gun violence research. The real blow was delivered by a succession of pusillanimous CDC directors, who decided that the safest course bureaucratically was simply to zero out the whole field.
He isn’t even capable of giving a subtle dog whistle. This is his form of “Just Kidding, Guys - Love your support so much am going to retweet it!”
OK so this is interesting (and there’s no thread on it)—first the heads of Merck and UnderArmour left that manufacturing council, and now the head of Intel, and here’s what he had to say:
and this:
This is a guy who had planned a fundraiser for Trump at his house last year (but cancelled after the media asked him about it). So figure a conservative leaner but skittish about appearances. I just find it interesting and maybe significant.