Wow. Just wow.

[applegrove]

Trump Visits Site of the Deadliest Attack on Jews in U.S. History, Says Nothing And Takes No Responsibility

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-visits-pittsburgh-site-of-the-deadliest-attack-on-jews-in-us-history-says-nothing-and-takes-no-responsibility

Jay Michaelson at the Daily Beast

"SNIP.....

No human being is perfect. We all make mistakes, and look back on our actions, occasionally, with remorse.

From this ineluctable fact of human life, arguably, springs one of the sources of religion itself: the knowledge that we cause harm, deliberately or inadvertently, and we feel sorry, and we don’t know what to do. Elaborate theologies of sin and forgiveness, reward and punishment, issue from this brute reality of the human condition.

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We all know that Trump does not excel at self-reflection. When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Trump in 2016 what he would say to his anti-Semitic supporters—who, at the time of the question, were deluging Jewish journalists like me in viciously anti-Semitic tweet storms—he replied that he had nothing to say to them. He has said he has no regrets for saying John McCain was not a war hero or for praising a politician who body-slammed a reporter. (In fairness, Trump did say that he regretted not firing FBI Director James Comey sooner.)

Maybe to Trump, admitting you made a mistake looks like weakness. But it’s not weakness, Mr. President. It’s humanity.

......SNIP"

And:

Holding Trump Accountable for Pittsburgh Isn’t Politicizing the Attack: It’s Sanity

Jay Michaelson at the Daily Beast

OPINION

The divergent reactions to the horrifying massacre of 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue are not about left vs. right. They are about logic vs. delusion.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/holding-trump-accountable-for-pittsburgh-isnt-politicizing-the-attack-its-sanity?via=twitter_page