Posted on 08/18/2017 1:34:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and other prominent Republicans have faulted President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., but there was little criticism — and even some praise — for Trump’s handling of the issue when more than 400 activists, donors and candidates gathered Thursday for a GOP dinner outside Boca Raton.
There has been some “chaos and turmoil” of late, Palm Beach County Republican Chairman Michael Barnett acknowledged to the crowd at the party’s annual Lobsterfest event at the Polo Club. But, Barnett added, “God is on his throne, Republicans are in charge and Mr. Trump, our president, is in the Oval Office doing one heck of a job.”
Part-time Palm Beach resident Trump initially blamed “many sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, then on Monday specifically condemned “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.”
On Tuesday, however, Trump drew fire for saying in a news conference that “there’s blame on both sides” and that there were some “very fine people” among those protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Barnett, the only black county GOP chairman in Florida and the state’s only black delegate at the 2016 Republican convention, said Trump has satisfactorily condemned prejudice and bigotry.
“He’s right to criticize both sides, where the hate’s coming from,” Barnett said in an interview. “He’s, in my mind, clearly condemned the hate that’s being spewed by these neo-Nazis, these Klansmen who wave the Confederate flag. I don’t know what more people could ask in the way of a response.”
U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Palm Coast, credited Trump with “leadership” and said the president’s “both sides” remarks don’t dilute his criticism of white supremacists.....
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Man I rather like this Barnett guy: “God is on his throne, Republicans are in charge and Mr. Trump, our president, is in the Oval Office doing one heck of a job.”
It’s all out of control. We are having our Annual GOP County Picnic tomorrow and I was just told that we have had anonymous calls saying that ANTIFA will be there to protest! It’s a County picnic for crying out loud. What they don’t realize is that we all have guns and we’ll all be carrying. Our first Vice Chair has the largest gun store in probably all of the Southwest. I hope he brings his machine gun! ROFLMAO! I love living in AZ!
George Soros. Who is quite out of touch himself.
I believe Trump is actually soaring in the opinions of most rank-and-file Republicans.
It might be hard to get an accurate measurement of this. But that's the sense I get. And your article bolsters my confidence.
It's not just Republicans. A lot of "unaffiliateds" are shocked and disgusted by the violence of the Left, and the blatant hatred for America and its institutions.
Some voices of leadership. Now we are beginning to see who is really who in all of this. All of the masks are dropping off of everyone.
As they are wont to do, the left will again overplay its hand.
Trump’s handling of Charlottesville was just fine.
The two things he has to realize ... and then deal with...
are.,,
1. the DNC-SOroz-RINO Uniparty is serious about destroying his presidency before he can even get started, and
2. the communistic MSM is out to destroy him by creating “narratives of frenzy and despair” about him
DJT has to drain the swamp...ASAP....of perhaps 10.000 Obama appointees and their enablers and sympathizers .. enemy moles in our government that will undercut and destroy DJT at every opportunity. They are mostly in the Snake Department (a long-standing hideaway nest for Nazis and IslamoNazi sympathizers).....also Obama packed them into critical agencies like defense, intelligence, security
if DJT does not Drain the Swamp, its alligators will eat him and his presidency alive
period.
DJT has to stop trying to ‘get along’ and start draining the swamp of all of its rabid alligators, NOW
just saying, this is really his last chance
I think so too. The propaganda press has crossed the line and American don’t like it.
Ironic that the statue in Durham portrayed an ordinary, nameless Confederate soldier. Not some wealthy plantation owner, politician or slaver.
Most rank-and-file Confederate soldiers were not slave owners. They were poor farmers who felt a sense of duty to defend their homes from the invasion of the Yankees, as I understand it.
From a modern perspective, the soldier's motivation might seem quaint or outdated. But evil? I don't think most Americans would agree.
Some of these statues are [were] also works of art. We don't know how great the Durham statue of the common soldier might have been, now that it's been smashed by the barbarians.
Great Post!
How, pray tell, is this “his last chance”? What are they going to do? The media has always hate him, and they will never love him. The RINOs have always hated him, and will never love him. They will NOT be able to impeach him, and the economy will continue to boom and his base will expand with regular people, Dem and Rep, who are looking at the idiots protesting monuments. He will be easily re-elected in 2020.
We have cow statues in my rural dairy town. Should I be doing something:?
The only people who support the BLM are black racists and white, female grade school teachers who observe Kwanzaa.
It might take time but if Antifa is getting the High Road because anything KKK is inexcusable (and it is a 3rd rail) then Antifa better not have a fit and break windows at the next event or they confirm what he said.
I hope Phoenix Trump rally is the second battle of this civil war and Antifa loses there supposed moral high ground.
He can be reelected yes — if he stops giving in to the swamp rats ,,,,, he has to start draining the swamp. There are too many soroz obama dnc moles and sabouteurs in the administration - inherited from obama - I’m not talking about a purge of honest civil servants. But rather, cleaning out the commie- soroz scum operatives moles spies leakers and sabouteurs. All infiltrated into our govt by obama - it’s Flush time! If djt doesn’t drain the swamp, though, the swamp rats and alligators will continue to undercut his finest efforts
Trump should sign an executive order making the removal of ALL monuments illegal. Then sit back and watch heads explode.
People may not like the monuments being removed but they won’t do anything about it. The only ones who are trying to stop it are Nazis and klansmen. There were some in Charlottesville who weren’t members of either one but I doubt there’ll be anyone but the extremes in the future. And once those monuments are moved, they ain’t comin’ back
I believe Trump said that there were some fine people on both sides. This article lies by omission.
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