Posted on 11/11/2016 6:54:29 AM PST by Cboldt
"I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.
"White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump's victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear - especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.
"I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.
"I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear - fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I've felt their tears and I've felt their fear.
"We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.
"If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.
"If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately."
STFU hairy. Just tune up the puppet strings you’ll be using with cat mantos.
I’ve been up for DAYS waiting on his statement. Now, I can rest.
I don’t care what Reid thinks, he is to blame for so much of this hate that his hands are bloody as are the republicans who sympathize with the hate mongers like insane Senator Reid.
yes, we want to enforce our laws harry. Got a problem with that? Scumbag.
Hey Harry, the only violence being perpetuated since Tuesday is by the thugs that represent your party and ideology.
Oh, and your 26 campaigns speak perfectly to your own criminality.
Spread the word!
20 Jan 2017 - Trump’s Inauguration
21 Jan 2017 - The Great Day of the Rope
Harry needs a good exercise workout
And an enema
Buh bye
Time to get back on that exercise bike, Senator. It’ll help relieve your irrational fear and anger.
That might be part of your problem, there.
.....watta a frickin’ idiot......
Nobody hated Americans as much as the half-caste Obama and this pipsqueak of a Senator.
Since ISIS is the outcome of "the Arab Spring," which was egged on by Obama and Hillary, I think we all know who ISIS wanted to win this election.
This is scary because if anyone knows a thing or two about hate and bigotry it’s Harry Reid and someone with that much experience as a lying, hateful, bigot would certainly recognize a fellow traveler, right?? Right?
LOL
Why would Asian Americans be in fear of trump?
Would someone, just please stomp on that cockroach
Such a horrid, vile and despicable man that his own exercise equipment had to beat him up.
He keeps this up the seat of his stationary bicycle is likely to fall off and shove something right up his a$$.
Also,Harry....Harry S Truman once said that you can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.Yet you have done exactly that.Care to explain?
Dear Harry, you have been on the ballot 26 times and taken the oath of office to support and defend the Constitution many of those times... how about you get started?
Instead of focusing on the message of the American people and how badly the elites got the election polling wrong, they’re trying to make everyone think that Trump has no mandate. Please stop allowing the left’s reaction to overtake the clear message of this election, which was the overthrow of the Establishment by Trump. The left has been far more bigoted than the right since November 8th.
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