Posted on 10/30/2018 8:16:20 PM PDT by Ennis85
US President Donald Trump has offered condolences at the Pennsylvania synagogue where 11 Jewish worshippers were shot dead at the weekend.
He was joined by First Lady Melania Trump, his daughter and son-in-law at the Tree of Life temple in Pittsburgh.
Hundreds of protesters gathered on the street chanting slogans against the president.
The visit came as mourners attended the first funerals for victims of the massacre.
The Trumps were greeted on Tuesday by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who led them inside the temple, where the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history unfolded on Saturday.
At a memorial outside, Mrs Trump placed a flower and the president laid a small stone on a marker for each of the victims.
Who accompanied the Trumps?
Mr Trump was joined by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, and his daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism when she married Mr Kushner. Both are White House advisers.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who is Jewish, also joined the president.
Before his visit, the president condemned anti-Semitism. The alleged gunman was not a Trump supporter.
Why are there protests?
Critics accuse Mr Trump of fomenting a surge in white nationalist and neo-Nazi activity through divisive rhetoric which has seen him criticise immigrants and Muslims in particular.
Some Jewish figures and Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto opposed the presidential visit.
More than 70,000 people signed an open letter from Pittsburgh-based Jewish leaders saying that President Trump was "not welcome" in the city unless he "fully denounces white nationalism".
The top four Republican and Democratic congressional leaders declined a White House invitation to join Mr Trump in Pennsylvania.
The White House has rejected any blame over the attack.
Members of Pittsburgh's Jewish community were among about 2,000 demonstrators who held a protest, according to Reuters news agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Political and cultural circumstance due mostly to democrat political policies have resulted in white nationalism
Trump was elected because folks are concerned
Borders and other nonsense
classless people are such a wonderful reflection on Pittsburg. The city must be so proud.
Good one.
I think these anti-Gentiles should be exposed for what they really are. /s
BBC?
Fake News!
Paid Protesters.
This is a Presbyterian minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3KsuzfSMjg
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Note the source of this story: BBC News. Consider the source. Is it a reliable and valid source? What parts of the story are about facts [who, what, where, when?], and which parts are about opinion [why, how?] It is politics in an election year. Look hard enough and you will find opponents to any and all office-holders and/or candidates for office anywhere. Is this story trying to report on the actions of the persons it describes or is it trying to influence the actions of those persons and of others towards those persons?
Our opponents (including the gunman who shot all those people) appear to have lost the ability to think critically. Or maybe they have thrown it away. We, consequently, will have to try twice as diligently to think critically, and speak up boldly and loudly to present our views.
the commies and nazis on the extreme left can’t even respect the innocent murdered dead...........they have to turn a respectful visit by the POTUS into a ‘protest opportunity’
what SICKOS!
That the article doesn’t scream out that the assassin was a DEMOCRAT-voting NAZI who hated Trump is a disgrace. The protestors are siding with the Nazi mass-murderer. Shame on every last one of them.
...............................You can bet they are all Democrats!
I live in the Pittsburgh area. Used to live in Squirrel Hill. Watched all the local coverage of the visit. An older (than me) woman came out to support him. Said he was great for Israel, said he was courageous to come hear with all the opposition. I was glad the local news gave her some time, as they overdid the coverage of the loony protestors. Luckily, they were like Jeb - low energy.
This just absolutely disgusts me.
Normal people don’t protest at funerals. How many of the protesters were bussed in or don’t even live in Pittsburg?
“...Leftists are unrepentant, inhospitable H8ers...”
Yep. Fake Americans.
I just saw on The Ingram Angle (fox news), some bald dumbass democrat strategist screaming about President Trump calling himself a Nationalist.
And saying that it was Nationalists that killed his grandparents in NAZI concentration Camps.
Perhaps somebody should tell the democrat idiot that the NAZIS were NOT Nationalists, They were NATIONAL SOCIALISTS.
In fact the NAZIS were the NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY.
Nobody called the idiot out on this.
Are all talking heads stupid or just slow.
If anybody called me a NAZI I would just explain to the idiot that I am a conservative capitalist, not a member of the NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKER PARTY.
I am a NATIONALIST, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and that includes all people who wish to live by it’s rules.
That MIGHT NOT INCLUDE DEMOCRATS.
(up to them)
I saw that evening news segment also.
ABC called his visit ‘a controversial visit’.
There’s nothing controversial about a president visiting the scene of a tragedy.
Trump is obviously affected by the loss, and wanting to show support for the Jewish populace.
They talk endlessly about Trump’s rhetoric, but never focus on Democrat, Media, and Leftist rhetoric.
My patience is growing very short over this nonsense.
ABC would like us to think not one Jewish synagogue member was happy Trump came. I know damn well there were plenty of folks that didn’t buy into the anti-Trump rhetoric.
As for the Jewish leaders in the area, man are they sadly lacking in leadership skills.
That woman shouting out was deranged.
Sad day for a man who is trying harder than any president I’ve ever seen, to stick with his platform promises.
I’m about as proud of him as I could be.
He has Jewish people in the family. Why would anyone think he’s an anti-Semite? Why would they think his rhetoric was responsible for this, and not the Leftist’s rhetoric?
Clueless Jews . Draft them all into the IDF
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