Donald Trump Just Retweeted A Notorious Right-Wing 'Pizzagate' Troll

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-jack-posobiec-retweet_us_59926ea0e4b08a247276df7a

Hours after denouncing far-right extremists on Monday, President Donald Trump retweeted a far-right “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist known for disrupting a performance of “Julius Caesar” over the summer. 

Trump’s RT was a post by Jack Posobiec: 

TWITTER

For days, Trump was criticized for not specifically calling out white supremacists for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Instead, he blamed “many sides” for the incidents that killed a 32-year-woman and injured 35 others.  

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

wouldn't be surprised if next trump retweets one of the fools who are trying to go protest heather heyer's funeral.

[Jacque67 7,328]

JackieP was sweating it into the early hours deleting old tweets, and posting new ones with one hand , if you catch my drift. Stone prob told Donnie about this peddler of fake news.

[smilesammich 10,727]

donnie loves fake news, thinks its the best, gets the greatest ratings..

[Jacque67 7,328]

Just now, smilesammich said:

donnie loves fake news, thinks its the best, gets the greatest ratings..

Seriously, JackieP is a deluded as Trump.

 

gotta send out the dog whistles, show Kelly you're boss...what a joke.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Oh my, Donnie triggered this morning and acting cray cray!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/after-charlottesville-trump-retweets-then-deletes-image-of-train-running-over-cnn-reporter/

 

the unifier!

[smilesammich 10,727]

but but...trump doesn't have a violent bone in his body!!!

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

but but...trump doesn't have a violent bone in his body!!!

 

As JackieP would say, look at Poland and the kiddies blowing bubbles in a park with no coloured people.

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

wouldn't be surprised if next trump retweets one of the fools who are trying to go protest heather heyer's funeral.

The so-called president needs to make up with his base again. He faltered in his support to their cause, over the weekend. 

[charmander 692]

Potus must have had some bowel issues this morning. three weird re-tweets; actually two; the third one was someone calling him a fascist. Deleted two of them later on; mentioned retweet is still on. Covfefe take 2.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Trump this morning: According to report just out, President Obama knew about Russian interference three years ago, but he didn't want to anger Russia.

 

 

quite the admission there Donnie, all night coke binge ?

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

Oh my, Donnie triggered this morning and acting cray cray!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/after-charlottesville-trump-retweets-then-deletes-image-of-train-running-over-cnn-reporter/

 

the unifier!

White House official tells CNN was inadvertently posted .

 

 

suuuuurreee

[CaliCat 3,957]

27 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

White House official tells CNN was inadvertently posted .

 

 

suuuuurreee

 

An unidentified source and fake CNN?

 

Can you say fake news? 

 

LOL. 

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

An unidentified source and fake CNN?

 

Can you say fake news? 

 

LOL. 

It was his type. Swiped right.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Some had hoped that Trump would be moderated by office; there was much talk of a presidential pivot. It was all utter nonsense and wishful thinking from lazy commentators who have found it difficult to cover, and call out, a president who regularly traffics in racially-charged rhetoric while surrounding himself with an array of race-baiting advisers. Since entering the Oval Office, Trump has appointed Steve Bannon — former executive chairman of Breitbart News, which has stories tagged ‘Black Crime’— as his White House chief strategist, and Jeff Sessions — who was once accused of calling a black official in Alabama a “xxxx” — as his Attorney General; he has claimed, without a shred of evidence, that millions of immigrants “voted illegally” for Hillary Clinton; and, perhaps most shocking of all, he has publicly and repeatedly belittled a female U.S. Senator, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has claimed Native American heritage, as “Pocahontas.”

This is racism 101 from a sitting US president. And it is the stark and undeniable truth, and key context, that is missing from much of the coverage of the political fallout from Charlottesville. Journalists, opinion formers, members of Congress and members of the public continue to treat Trump as they would any other previous president — they expect their head of government to come out and condemn racism with passion, vigor, speed and sincerity. But what do you do if the president is himself a long-standing purveyor of racism and xenophobia? What then? Do you still demand he condemn and castigate what is essentially his base? Do you continue to feign shock and outrage over his lack of shock and outrage?

Yes, the United States has had plenty of presidents in recent decades who have dog-whistled to racists and bigots and even incited hate against minorities — think Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Reagan and his “welfare queens,” George H.W. Bush and the Willie Horton ad and the Clintons and their “superpredators” — but there has never been a modern president so personally steeped in racist prejudices, so unashamed to make bigoted remarks in public and with such a long and well-documented record of racial discrimination.

So can we stop playing this game where journalists demand Trump condemns people he agrees with and Trump then pretends to condemn them in the mildest of terms? I hate to say this but it is worth paying attention to the leader of the Virginia KKK, who told a reporter in August 2016: “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in.”

So can we stop pretending that Trump isn’t Trump? That the presidency has changed him, or will change him? It hasn’t and it won’t. There will be no reset; no reboot; no pivot. This president may now be going through the motions of (belatedly) denouncing racism, with his scripted statements and vacuous tweets. But here’s the thing: why would you expect a lifelong racist to want to condemn or crack down on other racists? Why assume a person whose entire life and career has been defined by racially-motivated prejudice and racial discrimination, by hostility towards immigrants, foreigners and minorities, would suddenly be concerned by the rise of prejudice and discrimination on his watch? It is pure fantasy for politicians and pundits to suppose that Trump will ever think or behave as anything other than the bigot he has always been — and, in more recent years, as an apologist for other bigots too.

We would do well to heed the words of those who have spent decades studying this bizarre president. “Donald is a 70-year old man,” Trump biographer David Cay Johnston reminded me in the run-up to his inauguration in January. “I’m 67. I’m not going to change and neither is Donald.”