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About a year ago, 18-year-old college student Lauren Batchelder stood up at a political forum in New Hampshire and told Donald Trump that she didnt think he was a friend to women.
The next morning, Trump fired back on Twitter calling Batchelder an arrogant young woman and accusing her of being a plant from a rival campaign. Her phone began ringing with callers leaving threatening messages that were often sexual in nature. Her Facebook and email inboxes filled with similar messages. As her addresses circulated on social media and her photo flashed on the news, she fled home to hide.
I didnt really know what anyone was going to do, said Batchelder, now 19, who has never discussed her experience with a reporter until now. He was only going to tweet about it and that was it, but I didnt really know what his supporters were going to do, and that to me was the scariest part.
This is what happens when Trump targets a private citizen who publicly challenges him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-happens-when-donald-trump-attacks-a-private-citizen-on-twitter/2016/12/08/a1380ece-bd62-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?postshare=5771481247155313&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.86ba5277c81b
doc03
(35,325 posts)sue the shit out of that SOB. The same thing happened with the union president from Carrier.
cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)Hopefully though his actions will force the electoral college to do its job rather than the typical rubber stamping that people expect from them and tell him to piss off and instead choose Hillary.
Granted I doubt they have the spine it would take to actually do that but I can hope.
doc03
(35,325 posts)other countries using your position as president to get favors and line their pockets. Isn't knowingly having
a foreign government back your election? So a president can get on twitter and attack a private citizen knowing
or maybe even directing people to threaten them and that is OK? You have a 1000% more chance getting him out
office that way then you will ever have getting a Republican elector to change their vote.
hatrack
(59,583 posts). . . and people die, then what?
"Oh, nobody could have forseen that blahblahblah".
cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)making offensive tweets isn't one of those.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)Takes the blood and ashes off right away - it must be a Pilate 2000X!
Man, I so want one of those!
Bear Creek
(883 posts)And I think that inciting is a offense that holds prison time. Carly Fiorina needed to be charged after the lies about Planned Parenthood and the murder caused by her incitement.
cstanleytech
(26,281 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)Plain and simple. He has allowed his dogs (no offense to dogs) to go after Americans using their 1st Amendment.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)get the far right gif of Obama and Joe?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)There's a whole collection of them
http://blavity.com/petty-joe-biden-memes-funnest-thing-internet-right-now/
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)Of course, in his mind, "punching up" is impossible, since there is no one superior to The Emperor.
We have entered the age of Government by Snit.
Raine
(30,540 posts)means & influence that the bully has.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)they are gone trump shows no restraint
demmiblue
(36,841 posts)I think this one is from Death Threat Guy:
That poor young woman... this makes me sick to my stomach.
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)I don't think I'm alone here in being deeply troubled this is happening.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)cyberbulling is an offense. Well she was right he isn't a friend of women. This man is an every explicit word/s you can think of.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)anybody that speaks out against him will get tweeted about by Trump. Then, his deplorable followers will promptly and obediently proceed to threaten and harass the person that Trump tweeted about. When some of them go off the deep end and actually kill/maim somebody, he'll claim shock and horror like Henry II in Shakespeare (will no one rid me of this troublesome priest)
Stuart G
(38,418 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)attacking the defenseless.
What a craphead he is.
Pure scum
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts). . .and possibly fatal boomerang effect on that "God Emperor" motherfucker AND his children.
Just a matter of time until he pisses off the wrong person.
Javaman
(62,517 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)But it really does seem like these a$$holes must have made deals with the devil to survive
as long as they do in spite of the horrible stuff they do.
spanone
(135,823 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)Bombard him with criticism of his crap - by the millions
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Where is Melania at? I thought her passion was cyberbullying.
area51
(11,906 posts)giving him a disapproving look.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Trophy trollop #4 is just around the corner.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)what an ignorant fucker I think he is.
The Wizard
(12,541 posts)There's no nice way to say Nazi.
resistance2016
(86 posts)We "need to listen to their concerns," because certain white people know one or two Trump-voters who are "most certainly not racist"