"Donald Trump campaign sinks to new low"

[BainsBane]

There are so many lows, it's hard to rank them.

Donald Trump has spent half his Presidential campaign attacking and demonizing various minority groups, and the other half of his campaign hurling insults at President Obama. Now he and his campaign have found a way to do both in the same breath, with an attack on the President that is raising eyebrows. The racist language involved has managed to drag things to a new low – which at this point some thought was impossible.

Trump’s official campaign spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, took to Twitter to refer to President Obama as being the “head Negro in charge” while lamenting that the United States needs a “pure breed” President instead. When she was later given a chance to walk those comments back, she instead doubled down on them and referred to Obama as a “half breed.” Again, this woman is the top spokesperson for the entire Donald Trump campaign, and not some errant staffer. It’s not the first time this week that Trump and company have gone off the racist rails.

Earlier this week Trump retweeted a neo Nazi account called “White Genocide” which also featured an image of Jewish candidate Bernie Sanders being sent to a gas chamber. And now we have Trump’s top rep throwing the racial slur kitchen sink at President Obama.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/donald-trump-campaign-sinks-to-new-low-president-obama-is-a-negro-and-a-half-breed/23652/

[AllyCat]

1. This is from January. As disgusting now as it was then

But it serves to illustrate that we all (including the GOP) knew that he said horrible, nasty things even then. All the garbage he says now is just more of the same for a man not fit for the office of POTUS.

[BainsBane]

2. Oh, it came across my FB

I should have checked the date. I didn't hear about this at the time.

He really is completely unfit for office. I can't believe he's made it in business behaving like that.

[lostnfound]

5. I hadn't heard it either; it's incredible

Why the hell wasn't this all over the news?? Omg.

[MFM008]

3. Impossible

He's already stuffed in Satan's mouth in Dante's lowest point in hell.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Didn't think that was possible... guess I was wrong.

[Hortensis]

6. Katrina Pierson blamed Obama/HRC responsible for Captain Khan's death.

The Twitterverse is trying to teach Donald Trump's spokeswoman Katrina Pierson a sassy history lesson.

In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four years before Obama was elected.

Now, #KatrinaPiersonHistory has been used more than 31,000 times, sarcastically claiming Obama was to blame for key moments in history.

#KatrinaPiersonHistory Remember the Alamo? Obama and Hillary let it happen.

Pierson attempted to use the hashtag herself, changing its meaning, but she drew more criticism than support.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/03/katrinapiersonhistory-twitter-bashes-trump-spokeswoman-who-blamed-obama-2004-death-captain-khan/87987646/

[BainsBane]

7. That's scary stupid. Nt

[Hortensis]

8. This stuff raised $82 million in mostly small donations

last month. It seems like Trump's mostly populist base just may have taken a lesson from Bernie's supporters.

[glennward]

9. Unemployed millions giving away their unemployment benefit to Trump? Aren't these the people who

claim to be unemployed, lost jobs to trade deals and such? I really think there needs to be a close look at from where that 82 million actually came. I guess they don't want his base to know that he actually gets money from big donors too passed through the RNC.

[Hortensis]

10. I doubt the typical Trump supporter is unemployed,

though. You're certainly right that a majority coming from small donors still leaves a whole lot of millions that could come from big ones.

Populist resentment comes from within, and we know a lot of populists are actually doing okay, even fine -- just typically not as well as they believe they would have. A lot of it is generated by feelings of insecurity and fear from change they don't want and fear of a future they can't foresee.

One trumpster we know, and actually are quite fond of for his good points, designs and builds golf courses. He's the classic strong conservative who has high empathy for those inside his circle and little to no empathy for those outside it. (But we're currently inside his circle because our son is his friend.) Unfortunately, more golf courses are closing than new ones are being built. His income from that has fallen enough that he occasionally fills between-contract periods working as a land surveyor. Less lucrative, but hardly hurting -- except in his expectations perhaps. He's part of Trump's angry populist movement.

[AllyCat]

11. Well, to be honest, that is the way it should be done if we aren't going to publicly

finance campaigns. I'm sick of corporate money in politics.

[BainsBane]

12. We need public financing

Fleecing individuals isn't much better.