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IronLionZion

(45,410 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:48 PM Feb 2017

Spicer Makes Up New Islamist Attack

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spicer-makes-up-new-islamist-attack/ar-AAmIP8G?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green massacre” isn’t the only case of a White House aide pointing to a terror attack that didn’t happen to make the case for President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly pointed to Atlanta, along with San Bernardino and Boston, as one of three U.S. cities that have been attacked by Islamist terrorists to argue that the Trump administration needed to act quickly to prevent another attack in the future.

While the Boston bombing and shootings in San Bernadino were both carried out by Islamist terrorists, neither involved foreign nationals from the seven countries in Trump’s executive order. There has never been an Islamist terror attack in Atlanta.

In a Jan. 29 appearance on ABC’s This Week, Spicer explained to Martha Raddatz that the White House needed to implement its executive order quickly, before another terror attack could take place. “What do we say to the family that loses somebody over a terroristic (sic), to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber?”



Never Remember Atlanta. Thoughts and prayers for the nonexistent victims of the Atlanta attack that happened only in Sean Spicer's imagination and got covered up by every law enforcement agency and media outlet to help Obama. The survivors have been silenced by socialism.
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ck4829

(35,042 posts)
1. There was a terrorist in Atlanta - Eric Rudolph... non-Muslim right winger
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:51 PM
Feb 2017

I don't see any of Trump's special plans taking on guys like him.

haele

(12,645 posts)
3. Maybe he got mixed up over the '96 Olympics Bombing in Atlanta.
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:53 PM
Feb 2017

Easy mistake - radical Operation Rescue/Anti-Abortion operative can be confused for an extremist that believes in radical Sharia law.

Haele

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
4. He probably wasn't supposed to mention Atlanta
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:54 PM
Feb 2017

Almost in the same category as Quebec City only caused by an anti-abortion nutjob rather than an an anti-muslim nutjob.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
6. Maybe the 1996 Olympic bombing?
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:57 PM
Feb 2017

It would be foolish of him to cite that one because it was committed by a Christian nut job who wanted to stop abortion.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
7. Nothing new about rightwingers making shit up out of whole cloth.
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:58 PM
Feb 2017

Their base believes what they say, period and wont allow actual news into their heads.

IronLionZion

(45,410 posts)
8. What do they say to families who lost someone to white supremacist shooters?
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:00 PM
Feb 2017

We'll give guns to the mentally ill and don't have time for background checks?

Trump's divisive violent rhetoric makes America great again?

Stop whining, snowflake?



It's disturbing how badly Trump's administration wants bad things to happen to Americans. It is very concerning.



WhiteTara

(29,699 posts)
12. Eric Rudolph is a white terrorist and he
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 04:13 PM
Feb 2017

killed some people in Atlanta during the Olympics some time ago.

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