US ambassador: No credibility to NZ attack suspect citing Trump as symbol of 'white identity'

[DonViejo]

US ambassador: No credibility to New Zealand attack suspect citing Trump as symbol of 'white identity'

BY MICHAEL BURKE - 03/17/19 09:43 AM EDT

Scott Brown, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, said Sunday that he doesn't "give any credibility" to a suspect in the deadly New Zealand mosque shootings referring to President Trump as a symbol of “white identity.”

“I don’t give any credibility whatsoever to the ramblings somebody who’s rotten to the core and clearly is an extremist of the worst kind who could walk into two mosques and, without any care whatsoever, kill people," Brown said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" when pressed by host Jake Tapper.

"I don’t give any credibility to it. I’m not going to read it. I encourage others not to read it. I’m not going to give him the time of day," he added.

One of the suspects in the shootings that left 49 people dead and dozens injured said in his manifesto that he supported Trump “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose” but not as a “policy maker and leader.”

Tapper on Sunday also pressed Brown over Trump's response to the shooting. The president said Friday after the shooting that he doesn't think white nationalism is an increasing threat.

“I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. It’s certainly a terrible thing," the president said.

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Link to tweet

Full article
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/434429-us-ambassador-to-new-zealand-no-credibility-to-attack-suspect

[dsc]

1. So I take it the next time some terrorist sites his devotion to Bin Laden or ISIS

he won't be giving that credit I assume.

[underpants]

2. Oh so THAT'S where Scott Brown is

Doing his normal craptastic performance I see.

[smirkymonkey]

8. +1000

Just glad he's out of Massachusetts.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

13. Was thinking same. Scott Brown? Wtf. Talking points have been sent out...

...so he and other republiklan pundits are mimicking the odious racist and traitor in WH.

[lark]

3. Please, please, don't read what followers of 45 have to say.

Continue to ignore the violence he is churning up in his right wing followers and pretend he's normal not a total Nazi and Russian asset.

[2naSalit]

4. Now that is some truly tortured pretzel logic there.

[SunSeeker]

5. That's rich - Scott Brown talking about credibility!

[treestar]

6. He's never seen it

So it doesn't exist. Then it it proven to exist.

It's not a rising threat. It's a few sick people. But yet every Muslim in the world supports Muslim terrorism, I'll bet.

[malaise]

7. Oh Scott, just take off your clothes

pose naked for Cosmo, drive your fake working class truck and shut the fuck up!!

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[bobbieinok]

10. ?!?! THAT Scott Brown?!?! who started the 'Pocahontas chant' in his race vs Warren?!?!

[dustyscamp]

11. Keeping your head in the sand when events such as these happen is foolish

The world is much different now with the internet. The thought process of people in the deeper, darker parts of the web are clearly different than those that just skim it.
You have to face despicable things head on inorder to understand and then defeat it.

[struggle4progress]

12. NZ shooter calls immigrants "invaders." Then so does Trump

The alleged shooter rambled about immigrants in his manifesto. Trump mentioned it during a veto ceremony.

By Alex Ward
Mar 15, 2019, 5:40pm EDT

... On Friday, Trump issued the first veto of his presidency to override a congressional blockade of the national emergency he declared at America’s southern border. During the veto signing ceremony, Trump explained why he felt a national emergency was warranted to stop migrants from entering the US.

“People hate the word ‘invasion,’ but that’s what it is,” he said, according to the White House pool report.

That is chillingly similar to the language the main suspect in Friday’s Christchurch terrorist attack used to explain why he chose to gun down at least 49 Muslims. In the rambling 74-page manifesto the 28-year-old suspected shooter posted online shortly before the attack, he writes that he was committing the killings “to show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands.”

It’s also the same language the man who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last October used: In that case, the perpetrator blamed Jews for helping what he called “invaders” in the Central American migrant caravans who were trying to enter the US ...

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/15/18267745/new-zealand-mosque-attack-invade-trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. You mean the dotard needs others to defend him?