Posted on 07/19/2019 3:26:33 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump rarely admits a mistake, much less an overstatement, so well take the regret he expressed Thursday at the chant of send her back during his Wednesday rally as the moral equivalent of an apology. Lets hope his supporters get the message, and that Mr. Trump stops egging them on.
The crowd in North Carolina broke into chants of send her back after Mr. Trump lambasted Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for hating America. Mr. Trump had used the words go back in a tweet earlier in the week, and the crowds chant shows how easily an ill-thought presidential comment can inspire ugly expressions of mass psychology.
The best that can be said is that the chant echoed the 2016 calls of lock her up regarding Hillary Clinton, and it may have begun in that raucous partisan spirit. But Wednesdays chant was meaner in targeting Ms. Omar not merely for what she has said but as a naturalized citizen who should be banished from the U.S. The impulse is raw nativism.
Mr. Trump isnt the first President to indulge in such group-targeted demagoguery. FDR railed in his 1932 campaign against the Ishmaels and the Insulls, whose hand is against every mans. That was an anti-Semitic jibe against disgraced Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull, and the press corps at the time cheered Roosevelt on.
This time the chant was widely denounced, and not merely by the anti-Trump chorus. Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican who was at the rally, tweeted afterward: Though it was brief, I struggled with the send her back chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing thats painful to our friends in the minority communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Wsj clutching their pearls
If Trump doesnt like the chant people should stop doing it.
Not so much. Trump had to add more spice to the mix. Tweets this morning called her "Foul Mouthed Omar." Press will focus on HIS words, not hers.
It is amazing how the Fake News Media became "crazed" over the chant "send her back" by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen.......Mainstream Media, which has lost all credibility, has either officially or unofficially become a part of the Radical Left Democrat Party. It is a sick partnership, so pathetic to watch! They even covered a tiny staged crowd as they greeted Foul Mouthed Omar in Minnesota, a...
....State which I will win in #2020 because they can't stand her and her hatred of our Country, and they appreciate all that I have done for them (opening up mining and MUCH more) which has led to the best employment & economic year in Minnesota's long and beautiful history!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1152190436825604096 : 8:16 AM - 19 Jul 2019
So what? Are some of you this paper-thin?
I had forgot about this nonissue a day ago, but there are actually some limp-wrested people on the right that either are pretending that this hurt them so bad, or are really are so pathetic that they are. I dont care if he liked it one way or the other because it is so inconsequential to any damn thing.
And imagine that some people on this site brag about “CWII” and how the left will lose in a week because THEY are supposedly the ones that are all fragile?
Pffffffft! Point them to this nonsense.
No you are spazing over the chant. I want the world to know this is about us and not Trump. Trump may me the front man but we are not under anyones control. Send her back!
I love the guy but Trump can’t stop sh!t. Send her back.
I havent seen any direct quotes from Trump...just some story about what the family supposedly said to Trump.
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There is a short ( 1:36) video of his remarks at this link. I know it’s Politico but I send it just to show that he did disavow the chant and personally I don’t understand it or think it was a good thing to do. Seems like a lose/lose situation. The left are still going to hate him and many supporters will be disappointed in him as it is the first time he has shown weakness. And it comes when this vile woman is the target? makes zero sense.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/trump-disavows-send-her-back-chant-from-his-rally-1421371
Do you know what a pussy you look like? Send her back. I am Trump supporter but he doesn’t control what I say. F that.
So what? Are some of you this paper-thin?
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My concern is what it might bode for the future. I don’t want radical Islam getting any (further) foothold in this country. So I loved Trump going after this terrorist sympathizer. But doing this casts her (and Islam) as a victim in my mind and puts Trump on the defensive.
Just my opinion but I NEVER will post where a card carrying member of the MSM posts anything...
Taking what they say as “truth” and dragging it over here to stimulate either hits to their site or to stimulate threads like this one have no value to me.
Simply put they are in the bag on the deep state side and one who argues about the veracity of what they said and stands on their side of the argument has already told me all I need to know. Wolves in sheeps clothing, and I have will express my own thoughts on them and what they do and how diligently they try and defend this position.
Do with your own time as you will, but when I visit FreeRepublic if their is a post with any of the Co-Conspirators as a source I will save myself the time and agony of visiting it as it gathers Trolls and others of the same ilk like flies
Good luck to all and save yourselves the agony of time and brain cells lost by following them
She can leave gives all the decision-making to her.
Dan Bongino had a great take on those rallies.
Sure, they are done to generate enthusiasm with the base.
But more importantly, every single rally he holds...people RSVP for them. The venues only hold 20,000 people, but he is getting up to 50-100,000 RSVP with real names, emails, and addresses of people who fervently want to support him.
When election time comes around, this data he is collecting will be invaluable.
Instead of purchasing lists or having to depend on the RNC (the scum) for lists, he can send TARGETED lists for money to people who will, in large percentages from those RSVP lists, be willing to send money and offer support.
If they did a mass mailing from some POS RNC list, they might get money back on 5 or less%. If they do a mass mailing on people who RSVP’d and waited in line for hours to get into a Trump rally, do you think he could get 60%? Maybe 70% or more?
Point is, people like us no longer want to give money to the Republican Party, even if we WOULD willingly give it to Trump. This gives him a way to ask, and to get a great return on it!
And, of course, the rallies DO “fire up the base”!
Omar's immigration fraud problem has been simmering for a while. A lot of people on the right have known about it for months.
There is this article from May 20, 2019 "Ilhan Omar Becomes Subject Of Immigration Fraud Lawsuit".
And this from March 12, 2019 "Compelling evidence supports claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud"
I suspect Trump knows exactly what the situation is, and Omar's problems are just beginning. Trump is crazy like a fox.
The WSJ can bite me on this editorial.
The authors can kiss our collective a$$es.
There will be a muslim caucus forming.
Ellison had/has a picture of him holding an Antifa manual.
She tweeted “god is great (in Arabic)/life is good” not two weeks after Benghazi.
She is quoted as saying, “Long live Somalia,” and “...our nation back home.”
Apologize? FFS, THIS should be going on the red hats in 2020.
Given that WSJ has still not addressed the revelation that things have been printed in their paper at the behest of Fusion GPS, I don’t believe a word of this article.
“No you are spazing over the chant. “
Oh brother, this 3rd rate reply attempt...Yeah, I’m totally the one making this some big deal. okaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
“I want the world to know this is about us and not Trump.”
LOL! Dude, YOU have virtually no power or say in any part of this government WITHOUT Trump. Maybe some of you forgot that by now, but HE is the only thing even putting you on the field right now. Hate to break the big bad reality to you all.
“Trump may me the front man but we are not under anyones control.”
So? But if some of you want to be anything other than people yelling at a computer screen, you all need to get over this stupid nonissue and get with it.
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