Yes, folks, that's what the president said in his first public statement following the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that, combined, left 29 people dead and 57 wounded.
"Hate has no place in our country."
This is the same man who unabashedly holds political rallies with his rabid base of haters, who this same president excites with his rhetoric that is based on hatred and the stoking of hatred for those who -- they want to believe -- are not part of us, but outsiders.
What else does President Trump mean when he refers to the "infestation" -- a word he loves to use at his rallies -- that is coming into our country? And then, reportedly, one of the shooters in this latest, awful, twin mass shooting said he wanted to kill as many Mexicans as possible.
How are the two not connected?
No, Donald Trump did not pull the trigger. But he told his base, in effect, that these are people to be hated. It's OK to hate them; you're justified. What after all do you do with an infestation? You try to get rid of it, don't you?
Just saying, with wife Melania standing mutely by his side, that hate has no place in this country -- does not make it so. He lies about everything.
Why would we expect anything else from him? If the legal processes do not get rid of him prior to November 2020, he must be defeated at the polls -- by a landslide.
By a landslide. Because it's not just Donald Trump we want to replace in the presidency. It's the stench and taint he has brought to besmirch our democracy and our inclusiveness and our optimism that must be expunged.
Kirsten Gillibrand is far from my favorite candidate for the Democratic nomination; but in the recent debate, she had a good line. She said her first act as president would be to Clorox the Oval Office.
Amen.
Ralph
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