Posted on 08/13/2017 1:39:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
‘I mean, this is not hard’
The Democratic mayor of Charlottesville, Va., Michael Signer, is pinning blame directly on President Trump for the white nationalist protest and related violence that occurred in his city this weekend.
The blame for these events, he said, falls "right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president."
On Sunday he appeared on CNN's State of the Union and accused Trump of intentionally courting white nationalists. Here's a transcript:
TAPPER: You said you place blame for these terrifying events -- quote -- "right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president" -- unquote.
That is a -- that is a very strong charge to level. Why do you think the president himself bears responsibility?
SIGNER: Well, look at the campaign he ran. I mean, look at the intentional courting, both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists, a group like that, anti-Semitic groups, and then look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all those different efforts, just like we saw yesterday.
I mean, this is not hard. There's -- you know, there's two words that need to be said over and over again, domestic terrorism and white supremacy. That is exactly what we saw on display this weekend.
And we just aren't seeing leadership from the White House. We certainly are going to see leadership from cities like Charlottesville, from mayors, from leaders all around the country left and right.
Republicans and Democrats, if there is an issue that can unite this country, that this can be a turning point for this democracy, I think it just happened right now this weekend in Charlottesville.
You know, I -- to be honest, it doesn't matter much to me whether -- he's already on the sidelines, I think, of so many issues. But the country is going to move ahead. This will be a turning point for the country to overcome this stuff, just like we have overcome these challenges in our past. And I think it's happening right now, as we speak.
The Left line has ALWAYS been - and even more so since they’ve controlled the media - keep repeating a lie often enough and to the masses you will make it the truth.
He ran a campaign calling a spade a spade and the liberals think it results in liberals being violent.
Petulant children. Need a hard spanking.
See Red England, for example.
Was it Clintons campaign which made a Democrat go to a baseball field and try to kill as many republicans?
The left wing hypocrisy yet again.
The mayor of charlottsville is a racist loser. Look at his statements over the years. What an affirmative-action degenerate masquerading as a “leader”.
This nonsense by the left is making it damn hard for people NOT to become racist. I tell my liberal friends that I would crawl over broken glass to vote for a black woman who is a conservative for president, but they still view me as a racist and a misogynist because I voted against Obama and for Trump. WTF?
Watching the left go into a death spiral.
Can you have a country with people of such low character as this?
That is why there is alternative sources news wise on the internet.
No, we are seeing a left dying or going into death spiral.
Thanks!
Seems to be collusion between liberal mayors and the violent forces who hate Trump.
Remember the riots in San Jose when Trump came to speak? The San Jose cops under orders from their liberal mayor let Trump supporters be harassed, attacked and chased by hired thugs.
The first UC Berkley riots last year were a replication of the San Jose attacks on Trump supporters. The cops stood back and let the Antifa and other hired thugs har
The cops were under orders from the mayor let the antifa thugs run wild to harm, harass and chase our side away. I posted shortly after the Berkley riots had started, “That my wife had asked during the so called tv news why the cops just stood by watched our people being attack?
I told her, that it was apparent the cops had orders not to protect our people.
It is real simple. In any city with a police force, the mayor and maybe the city council tell their police chief what his/her cops can and cannot do in these situations.
So the individual cops with their mortgages, kids in braces and maxed out credit cards just stand by when our people are attacked.
Remember, when the mayors/their cops at Chicago and later, other cities did nothing when the anti Trump protestors tried to shut Trump down in his appearances?
In the above riots/near riots, the mediots blamed Trump and his voters, not the criminal rioters.
The good news is that it is backfiring on the Dems.
Must be using new math to identify 2 words. I count 5. And just exactly who issued the permits to march? I always thought the reasons to require permits in the first place was to avoid dangerous situations and ensure that local services are adequate. Two words for that, Mr. Mayor?
Remember how MSNBC said that Scalise had it coming..they never once disavowed the freak of nature that went on the shooting rampage..I wonder what would happen to anyone on the right that said the woman who got run over had it coming
<><>Mike Signer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Signer
Check out the education background.... then his first job after law school.
Where else have we heard about a law firm with a very similar name? Is it the same outfit?
Calling all “dots” please line up....
The Mueller gang is assembling the troops.....
<><>Wes Bellamy
http://www.cvillepedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Wes_Bellamy
Get lost troll.
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@VanJones68 suggests that the 100’s of people blooded up by AntiFa thugs is irrelevant because no one died.
See John Kim, the one with the NORK Nukes.
Just for some additional perspective, Mayor Signer of Charlottesville is a Berkeley grad.
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