Posted on 08/17/2017 7:00:08 AM PDT by mandaladon
The Economist has made a shocking statement on the president on their most recent cover, showing him speaking through a megaphone that appears to look like a Ku Klux Klan hood.
The latest cover of the magazine has no headline mentioning Trump or words describing the president’s recent actions.
Trump has taken heat and faced widespread condemnation from Democrats and Republicans for his comments on the rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, after he said twice that more than one side was to blame for violence that erupted.
White supremacists, neo-Nazis and KKK leaders gathered in Charlottesville last weekend for a “Unite the Right” rally to protest the planned removal of a Confederate statue, sparking counterprotestors to arrive opposing them.
The event took a deadly turn when a driver with alleged ties to the white supremacists allegedly rammed his car into the counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring others.
Trump originally did not call out the white supremacists specifically and said “many sides” were to blame for the violence and doubled down on his statement on Tuesday just one day after calling out the racism as evil and condemning the groups.
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This just proves that the Economist has a strong political bias and should be lumped in with other sources of fake news.
The Economist is essentially the European Union Gazette.
What a disgrace.
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