Posted on 08/04/2019 11:26:58 AM PDT by jazusamo
After former Congressman Beto O'Rourke (D) appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and cited President Donald Trump's alleged racism as the reason behind the "violence in America," host Jake Tapper pressed El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on the issue.
Despite Tapper's repeated attempts to get Margo to take a stance on Trump's alleged racism, the Mayor shut him down.
"Former Congressman from El Paso, Beto O'Rourke, told me earlier in the show that, in his view, the president's anti-immigrant rhetoric is making things worse and creating an atmosphere of violence. Do you agree? Do you have any concerns about the things President Trump says about immigrants?" Tapper asked.
"Jake, I'm not qualified to make a comment on that. I'm not a talking head. I'm focusing on the El Pasoans and the 20 deaths, their families and what it means to this community and how we can come together and not be victimized by this," Margo responded. "This will not define us. We are a unique region that's been here for 350 years. There's families on both sides. There's commerce on both sides. We're bi-national and bi-cultural. We're almost 2.5 million people and our average age is 32. This will not define us."
Tapper set the stage for another ask.
"The Texas Land Commissioner, George P. Bush, said in a statement that 'white terrorism' is a 'real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat.' Do you agree that white terrorism is a threat to the United States?" Tapper asked
"Jake, I'm not qualified to respond to that anymore than the previous question," Margo said. "I'm focusing on El Paso. There's evil in this world and it's unfortunate."
El Paso Mayor won't attack Trump
I’m more interested if George P. made that statement. If true, he can kiss his political career buh-bye.
A better response would've been, "Tim, or Chris or Chet or whatever your name is, 73 people have been shot in Chicago so far this weekend, are you and Robert and G.P. gonna blame that on President Trump, too"?
Robert is from El Paso??? How conveeeeeeenient.
That would have been a great response guaranteed to get a Deer In The Headlights look.
I would have preferred something a bit stronger....like, Why are you trying to politicize this tragedy, Fake Tapper?
Excellent!
I think people are simply begining to tune out yhe Left.
Yes, he most certainly did:
https://www.newsweek.com/president-bush-grandsonblasts-white-terrorism-el-paso-shooting-1452480
Exactly, the fact these two slimeball murderers are Democrats doesn’t fit the enemedia’s agenda.
YES!!! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? I’ve been looking for that all day!!! I heard about it but couldn’t find it! That needs to be spread around as much as possible!
Fake Tapper.
I hosted it at ImGur so if you right click and save the URL then you can post it as much as you like, anywhere.
His response was good, but “perfect”? It would be “perfect” if he pointed out the leftie followings of the killer and the leftie violence.
Another “BOOM” clickbait scam.
What a useless tool gpb is.
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Commies love trashing white people and calling them all white supremacists, yet when a Muslim killed a bunch of gay people at a bar in Orlando(During Obama’s presidency) everyone in the media said “Cant blame Islam, blame the shooter”
His reputation score only dropped by 0.1.
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