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President Donald Trump denied Friday that his language enabled a Coast Guard officer accused of being a white nationalist who plotted to kill journalists and Democratic politicians.
While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he believes Lt. Christopher Paul Hassons plan to carry out white-supremacist terror attacks is a shame.
"Its a very sad thing when a thing like that happens, the president said. Ive expressed that.
When asked whether he bears any responsibility for monitoring his language, the president said no. I think my language is very nice, he said.
Trump has launched a verbal assault on the media, often referring to news outlets as the enemy of the people and fake news. The presidents supporters have heckled reporters at the presidents rallies, and a reporter was once physically attacked. In addition, CNN and prominent Democrats last year were targeted with pipe bombs by an apparent Trump supporter.
The president has also been criticized for his racially charged language, which critics fear incites violence.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/22/trump-coast-guard-1182009
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)referring to the assorted Nazis and KKK members and other white supremacists.
struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)... Why are we acting like this is a space that Donald Trump is going to go in and behave of the American ideal?, said Michael Steele, who is also a former lieutenant governor of Maryland, in an appearance on MSNBC. No, he is not. These are his people. And hes not going to thank law enforcement because hes probably not happy about what law enforcement did ...
Im not going to dress it up and be pie in the sky and hopeful that, oh, maybe in the next incident Trump will actually get it right, that he will have matured in his presidency enough to act like a president, Steele said ...
TRUMP WON'T CONDEMN SELF-PROCLAIMED WHITE NATIONALIST
BY GILLIAN EDEVANE ON 2/23/19 AT 9:33 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-refuses-condemn-hasson-those-are-his-people-michael-steele-says-1341543
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)I'm sure Hitler said something similar back in the day.