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tRump doubled down on Charlottesville (Original Post)
benld74
Aug 2017
OP
But are the major news outlets debunking his claims, or just repeating them...?
regnaD kciN
Aug 2017
#3
I was wondering if Trump was now blaming the black church goers for provoking Dylann Roof?
Quixote1818
Aug 2017
#7
Did you mean Charlottesville or is he saying the blacks Dylann Roof murdered started it?
Quixote1818
Aug 2017
#5
spanone
(135,873 posts)1. he went into great detail about how BOTH SIDES were guilty
he's fucking insane
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)2. This is a tactic used by hitler in the 30's.
Some shit never changes
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)3. But are the major news outlets debunking his claims, or just repeating them...?
I can see a situation where everyone decides to be "even-handed," and merely describe his opinions as "highly-controversial," while making sure their coverage is "equally-balanced" between white supremacists and those who oppose them.
Keefer
(713 posts)4. What happened in Charleston?
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)7. I was wondering if Trump was now blaming the black church goers for provoking Dylann Roof?
in Charleston? Wouldn't surprise me at this point
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)5. Did you mean Charlottesville or is he saying the blacks Dylann Roof murdered started it?
?
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)6. You mean Charlottesville
benld74
(9,909 posts)9. Yes. I posted from phone and was too mad to spellcheck
nocoincidences
(2,229 posts)8. Anyone want to bet
he doesn't even know the name of the gathering in C'ville, you know, Unite the Right.
It was planned and organized by groups on the right. Left leaning groups only came to protest it.
So how are they equally culpable?