President Trumps State of the Union-style address to Congress, annotated by Vox staff

[TomCADem]

Nice running fact check by Vox. Here is an excerpt...

http://www.vox.com/a/trump-speech-transcript-joint-session-of-congress-annotated

Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.

The president was actually quite late to condemning hateful acts in the form of anti-Semitism. In two press conferences, he deflected questions about a rise in anti-Semitic threats to Jewish community centers and Jewish day schools across the country. So far this year, 90 such bomb threats have been made. President Trump didn’t denounce the threats until February 22. This morning, however, Trump implied that the attacks may not have been what they appeared. He told attorneys general from states across the country that sometimes such attacks were actually “the reverse” and events that were really perpetrated to “make others look bad.” In advancing the idea that the attacks on the Jewish community were actually “false flags,” the president seemed to be presenting an idea popular among the far-right fringe.