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Reid Statement on the Election of Donald Trump
Harry Reid Press Release ^ | November 11, 2016 | Harry Reid

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."


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 114th; elderly; harryreid; nevada; nv2016; reid; soiledharry
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To: Cboldt
Sit down, Harry...you're looking like the idiot you are. Proof?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg

21 posted on 11/11/2016 7:01:25 AM PST by econjack
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To: Cboldt
"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.

Harry, expect a call from President Elect Trump's lawyers very soon.VERY SOON.

22 posted on 11/11/2016 7:02:00 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: Cboldt

FUHR.


23 posted on 11/11/2016 7:02:07 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Cboldt

“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.

Ya deef bastage, you just have had your fingers in your
ears for the last 8 years going La la la Obama is wonderful.


24 posted on 11/11/2016 7:02:27 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cboldt

Shut up, Harry, you’re on the list too.

FReegards, Cboldt


25 posted on 11/11/2016 7:02:49 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Cboldt

Oh, yeah, because Obama and Reid reached across the isle after Obama’s victories and assured Republicans that all would go well….NOT! Obama rubbed GOP noses in it. And in his sneering way said, “Elections have consequences.” Those are the words every Republican should repeat when the Democrats and their media try to browbeat Trump and the GOP Congress and Senate into “compromising” that would leave Obama’s disastrous policies intact. EVERY executive order should be struck down the afternoon of the Inauguration. Then Pres. Trump and his lovely wife can dance the night away. That would be a great start to his presidency.


26 posted on 11/11/2016 7:03:41 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Cboldt

Now, in about 50 days Reid will join Jimmy Carter, Dan Rather, Rod Blagojevich, Lowell Weicker, Mike Dukakis, Eric Cantor, Al Gore, Tom Daschle and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Hades of Irrelevancy.


27 posted on 11/11/2016 7:03:57 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Cboldt

It would be a crying shame if his alcoholic brother beat the crap out of him again. Truly unfortunate.

CC


28 posted on 11/11/2016 7:04:45 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Cboldt

Leftist meme of the day .... “fear”.

Reid is a despicable lowlife and enabled Obama in his destruction of America.

It’s a great day in America when you elect someone who will respect and follow the Constitution and rule of law. If that makes ILLEGALS & terrorists unhappy (attention Hispanics & Muslims ... if either of those shoes fit, wear it), then so much the better. They have the choice to ‘get out’ - go back to Mexico, head back to the ME where countries are under sharia. IF you are waving a Mexican flag, an ISIS flag or any other flag besides the AMERICAN flag, then Trump is not your president because this is not your country.


29 posted on 11/11/2016 7:06:12 AM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: headstamp 2
Correction:

Hey Harry, the only violence being perpetuated since Tuesday July is by the thugs that represent your party and ideology.

ML/NJ

30 posted on 11/11/2016 7:06:29 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Cboldt
Hey Harry, I'm a bit worried about the Nukes you let the Iranians build when you dumped the Constitution and passed the Corker Amendment. It now takes a ⅔ Senate vote to stop a treaty.
31 posted on 11/11/2016 7:07:17 AM PST by alpo (Resist we much)
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To: Qiviut
-- Leftist meme of the day .... "fear". --

The press is stoking the crap out of this, lying about Trump's "character" and planned policies, so as to give the agitators mterial to fire up the protesters.

And then they have the temerity to say the onus is on Trump to calm the protesters.

The press is despicable and proving it every day.

32 posted on 11/11/2016 7:08:42 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I believe the Nevada senate seat was stolen by illegal alien voters. Dingy Harry knows this to to be the case.

In a few more years, Trump will be draining the swamp in Nevada and all over the country.

The stolen senate seat will be the lefts last hooray.


33 posted on 11/11/2016 7:10:25 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Cboldt
The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.

He's right. They were all over TV last night and this morning burning cop cars and trashing America.

34 posted on 11/11/2016 7:11:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud and defiant irredeemable deplorable!)
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To: Cboldt

Reid needs to be indicted, convicted, and imprisoned pronto.


35 posted on 11/11/2016 7:12:09 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V):)
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To: Qiviut
-- Leftist meme of the day .... "fear". --

Ron Browstein on CNN asserting that Trump ran a racially divisive campaign, moreso than Wallace.

Senator Warren is on the "fire up the communists" bandwagon too, using "racists" as the dog whistle.

36 posted on 11/11/2016 7:12:15 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

He actually shows that his family, friends and supporters are worthless nut cases.


37 posted on 11/11/2016 7:12:46 AM PST by Williams (Trump You Magnificent Bastard!)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Well, don’t worry...

We’ll be celebrating “The American Spring” now.


38 posted on 11/11/2016 7:13:05 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Cboldt
Yet, we have zero video of Trump people beating up Clinton supporters.

We do have ample video of the reverse though.

39 posted on 11/11/2016 7:13:31 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
-- Yet, we have zero video of Trump people beating up Clinton supporters. --

Just taunting a Clinton supporter is presented as outrageous. LOL. And at least one "Trump supporters attacked a muslim" report has been admitted to be a hoax.

40 posted on 11/11/2016 7:15:26 AM PST by Cboldt
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