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New Zealand shooting: Trump tweets link to Islamophobic website as Christchurch terror (trunc)
The Independent (UK) via Yahoo ^ | March 15th, 2019 | Chris Riotta

Posted on 03/15/2019 10:06:53 AM PDT by Mariner

Donald Trump tweeted a link to Breitbart, ​a far-right website that peddles xenophobia and extremist ideologies, as a terrorist conducted a brutal massacre in New Zealand after releasing a manifesto that celebrated the US president as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”

The tragedy, in which two mosques were seemingly the target of a terrorist attack spearheaded by an Australian 28-year-old white male, occurred on Friday in Christchurch, New Zealand — the same day Breitbart featured an interview with Mr Trump on its homepage.

The president responded to the mass shootings the following morning on Twitter in a statement that failed to describe the event as an act of terror, as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had called it the night before. He also deleted his tweet to the Breitbart post the day after the attack.

“My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques,” Mr Trump wrote. “49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do.”

He added, “God bless all!”

The Australian man behind the attacks appeared to be a right-wing extremist who described anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant motives in an 87-page manifesto that named the president and right-wing influencer Candace Owens.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brentontarrant; christchurchshooting
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To: Da Coyote

Guess I’m on the list along wit PDJT. I mean if he linked it he must read it right, what’s his screen name on FReerepublic?


21 posted on 03/15/2019 10:26:45 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: so_real; All
"named" but in what way is the question?

I haven't read the 87 page manifesto but others seem to be saying he's a China-admirer and eco-fascist neither of which really describe Trump or Candace.

The "Independent" is editorializing here and trying to smear Trump and Owens by implying they are somehow involved. I haven't studied her career but Owens' recent work seems all about "Blexit" (escaping the Democratic plantation into free thinking) which has nothing to do with Islamophobia.

Trump comments on destroying the Caliphate and having terrorists on the run where we're still in unending wars but that's about it.

22 posted on 03/15/2019 10:28:20 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Mariner

So vile and disgusting is the media. They say anything they want. I think Candace Owens should sue the sh*t out of anyone who has been high tech lynching her.


23 posted on 03/15/2019 10:35:36 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mariner

This is just another example of the fraud that is our media. The suggestion that Brietbart is evil, and then the suggestion that Trump tweeted something evil they said about the shooting, when he simply was tweeting a link to an interview he gave with a media outlet.


24 posted on 03/15/2019 10:38:21 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: lastchance

He is a person who wants the world to burn; kind of like The Joker. He clearly indicated he wanted to stir up trouble, and he wrote plenty of completely stupid, obviously false things that would stir people up.


25 posted on 03/15/2019 10:39:17 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: M Kehoe
Reporting on news, culture, politics and LGBTQ issues.

Writer.

Journalist.

Storyteller.
(from his own website)

And utterly oblivious to irony Chris Riotta.

26 posted on 03/15/2019 10:44:14 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Yes he did. I do believe his “manifesto” is the work of more than one person. Each with their own checklist of what boogeymen to unleash.


27 posted on 03/15/2019 10:48:23 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: papertyger
Chris Riotta ‏Verified account @chrisriotta Mar 14 When I covered Beto O'Rourke's Senate run in Texas during the midterms for @Independent, a lot of folks told me they hadn't been that inspired by a politician since Barack Obama visited the state in 2007.
28 posted on 03/15/2019 11:00:04 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Mariner

29 posted on 03/15/2019 12:26:47 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Mariner

It is no coincidence that Donald Trump also got out of BED the day of the massacre AND THEN HAD BREAKFAST!!!


30 posted on 03/15/2019 1:01:17 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Mariner

While no good will come of terroristic attacks on Muslims, let me be the first to point out that no Christ’s Church has ever been attacked by Muslims in Saudi Arabia.

Why? Because there is no Christian church in Saudi Arabia. Spreading the Gospel there is a capital crime.

Where Islam dominates, Christians are kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered.

This incident in New Zealand is an anomaly. Muslims doing these things is the norm. There may be peaceful Muslims, but they are not “normal” Muslims.

Christians must not resort to the tactics of Muslims, Satanists, or leftists. They do not work for accomplishing anything good.


31 posted on 03/15/2019 1:06:39 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: Mariner

Sorry, but these murders don’t make Islam and Sharia law any less dangerous.


32 posted on 03/15/2019 1:31:02 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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