Trump needs to take a pause, and verify those anti-Muslim videos. If they are legitimate, present the evidence at the next White House press conference. Oh, and play the videos as well.
But if it turns out that at least some of them are fakes...well, just take a page from the Democrat play book. Say nothing, and move on.
Agreed.
He really needs to stop playing with his “phone”. He’s only going to get himself in trouble. Shooting off one’s mouth does not keep a foot from getting stuck in it.
Say nothing, indeed. Better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.
Especially when one is president.
Not that I give a damn what Moslems think.
No he doesn’t.
(snicker, snicker!)
“Even though there is no evidence, the seriousness of the charge is what matters.”
Tom Foley (D) House Speaker
(snicker, snicker!)
I think your important point is getting lost in some noise here.
Some around here seem to think that asking for proof of a veracity of a claim is somehow not supporting the president. It’s nothing of the kind. He’s not God, and so like any man should be expected to be able to prove any allegation. And in fact if he’s able to prove the video is what is claimed than it only will strengthen his position even more. That some around here don’t seem to get that is mind boggling.
I say this because, some may not be aware, but the current criticism against these videos are that they are fake. Specifically the one allegedly showing a group of Muslims throwing a Dutch kid off a roof. If one goes to Trumps Twitter page and looks at the comments about it there there are some leftists there that claim it’s a video of a group of Dutch kids from a year ago committing the atrocity. They say it’s old news over there and has been debunked.
So that’s where the requiement of proof comes in. And also where all this backlash is coming from. It’s not that some people don’t believe it’s a horrible act caught on video. No one can deny that. But they are saying it’s not what Britain First (and Trump) are saying it is.
So like it or not he does need to prove the video is really what Britain First says it is. Or else people are just going to dismiss this as “racist garbage” (as they already are now) and it will ultimately hurt his credibility.
Let me be clear there’s nothing wrong with retweeting such a video or videos to get the message out about such barbarity. You just can’t rely on faked material to do it. There is no rebuttal, that makes sense, if there’s a claim the original material is fake. You have to prove it’s not or else the truth (about Islamic terrorism) gets overshadowed by such a claim. It’s a common leftist tactic of course but it’s easily countered if there’s proof of the video’s veracity.
It’s not too much to ask to be able to prove to anyone who would doubt it that it is what it claims to show. For anyone to think such a simple request is somehow caving to anything is absolutely ludicrous. That’s just engaging in hero worship, something we always (rightly) accuse the left of doing re Obama, Clinton, etc. We can’t let ourselves go down that same road.