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.
Is Jesse Jackson their writer and rhetorician?
“Just for some additional perspective, Mayor Signer of Charlottesville is a Berkeley grad.”
That pretty well confirms, what I have been saying about how this riot reminded me of the Berkley and San Jose riots.
Thanks!
So the governor and his flunky mayor and the flunky mayor’s chief of police were in on this riot.
Did $oreA$$ or Obama start this action and pass the orders down?
The best part about being a liberal is that everything is always somebody else’s fault.
I would remind the honorable mayor that it was Obama that called for his voters to “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
That it was Obama that called for his voters to get in their faces.
Maybe Morris Dees of the SPLC, himself Jewish. Go figure.
Morris Dees divorce papers.
That is all.
Rat party and the Race Card, go together like soup and sandwich. Stupid leftard whiteys think if they rant against Trump and donate to the NAACP and BLM, the black race baiters will like them and give them credit.
Pssst, you dumb@ss leftard whiteys—they’ll take your money and the free PR, but make no mistake, they hate you, you and your whitey “privilege.”
Well, that was “entertaining”...
Yeah, how about a CIA asset being Johnny on the spot like that.
I fly it daily. You don't have to like it. Frankly, I don't give a damn.
So please keep away from Trump, or anything associated with him. Don’t taint him and others with your precious flag. It is a symbol of hate and violence, both historic and current. Whether you are filled with this same hate or violence, else fly it for other reasons, realize that most of us see it as a sign of hate and violence. Get a grip. For the good of the country, for conservatives, for the good things we all believe in, for Republicans, for Trump, for all of us, it needs to be set aside.
Sorry Taliban wingnut, you don't get to make that call.
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