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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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29-Nov-2017, 5:49 PM

oojason said:

TM2YC said:

oojason said:

‘Trump retweets British far-right leader’s anti-Muslim videos’…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/29/trump-account-retweets-anti-muslim-videos-of-british-far-right-leader

Even after all he has said and done. The US President supporting a fascist group, who had a member that assassinated one of my countries’ (UK) politicians is a new low. If Trump wants to support Nazis in his own country, that’s his right I suppose but don’t bring aid and comfort to enemies of my country please, if you still want to claim to be our ally.

Aye, Trump may well be a moron - though surprising that no-one is reigning him on his tweets (or activities in general) in at all.

WTF is he doing following - let alone endorsing - that particular group in the first place?

Nazi propaganda kept showing up again and again during his campaign, but they kept deleting/revising the Nazi images as soon as they were found out. The media response was generally that it was an accident, that he clearly didn’t intend it, but why was his campaign going through Nazi propaganda sites in the first place? Then the next time, that it was an accident, that he clearly didn’t intend it, but why was his campaign going through Nazi propaganda sites in the first place? Then the next time, that it was an accident, that he clearly didn’t intend it, but why was his campaign going through Nazi propaganda sites in the first place?

That’s pretty much verbatim what Politifact kept saying again, and again, and again:

Based on the evidence available, it seems unlikely that the Trump campaign intended to put out a Star of David image. In fact, the campaign moved to replace the star with a circle when the image gained attention.

Having said that, this seems to be yet another a case of Trump using social media to broadcast material that comes from sources with a history of spreading racism, anti-Semitism or white supremacy. It is unusual to see a presidential campaign operate with such a lack of message discipline.

Eventually this “oopsie my silly browser cache did it, not me” excuse will wear thin. But not today.