White House: Trump Condemns 'Racially Or Religiously Motivated' Attacks

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 5:35 PM EDT

A White House spokesperson said Tuesday that President Donald Trump condemns "racially or religiously motivated attacks" like the triple shooting in Kansas that left one Indian man dead.

"It looked like it was racially motivated," White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote in an email to TPM. "The President condemns these and any other racially or religiously motivated attacks in the strongest terms."

Sanders told reporters the same thing during an off-camera gaggle earlier Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office opened a hate crime investigation into the triple shooting in Olathe, Kansas.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-trump-condemns-racially-or-religiously-motivated-attacks

[femmocrat]

1. Took him long enough.

[Crash2Parties]

2. As he removes protections for trans students due to GOP religious motivation...

And DeVoss says racist things about black colleges...

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. No he doesnt, in fact he initiates them. He is a fascist, a soon to be dictator,

he hates gay people, Jewish people, Latino people, black people.

And so on, and on and on and on.

No, he absolutely does no such thing.

[luvMIdog]

4. it "looked" like it was racially motivated?

it was TERRORISM

[underpants]

5. aaaaand he personally questioned if the wave of anti-Semitic attacks weren't really a trick

President Trump reportedly said "sometimes it's the reverse" when asked about the wave of recent anti-Semitic incidents across the country.

Trump made the comments to a group of state attorneys general Tuesday, an attendee told BuzzFeed News.

"He just said, 'Sometimes it's the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad,' and he used the word 'reverse,' I would say two to three times in his comments," Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told BuzzFeed after the meeting.

"He did correctly say at the top that it was reprehensible."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321615-trump-says-sometimes-its-the-reverse-when-asked-about-anti-semitic

[ananda]

6. It's reprehensible to him only because it makes him look bad!

That's why he can't take responsibility for anything bad .. not this,
not Yemen, etc.

[JudyM]

22. His saying this, plus only speaking through a spokesperson about the antisemitism, is reprehensible.

[Mendocino]

7. He puts racist pukes like

Bannon and Sessions in positions of authority then laments acts of racism.

[Squinch]

8. Except those ones against Jews that he thinks are their own false flag. Or his own hatred for

all Muslims.

The man is such an ignorant pig. I can't believe he didn't die of stupidity already.

[Chasstev365]

9. Like those poor Indian Engineers?

Fuck you Trump: little late of a lame, blanket denunciation!

[gopiscrap]

10. it took them this long because they had to ask the KKK how to word it

[dalton99a]

11. Yep.

[mountain grammy]

12. When the shooter is screaming "get out of my country"

I think it's clear the motivation here.

[SeattleVet]

17. ...then goes to another bar and talks about having shot 'some Iranians',

and looking for a place to stay for a few days.

[LisaM]

13. I don't want to hear a spokesman.

I want to hear him say it, and I want him to do so at one of his rallies.

[benfranklin1776]

14. Exactly as he didn't denounce it.

His press shill did rather tepidly and only in response to being pressed on it by reporters.

[LisaM]

15. Right?

I don't think he'd do it in front of one of those mobs.

[Initech]

16. Too little, too late, Trump.

Sorry but the damage has been done. I'm going to start holding the GOP to the same insane double standard they hold us to.

[Best_man23]

18. Sure He Does....

Like he's going to release his tax returns, or bring blue collar jobs back to Michigan, or balance the budget while cutting taxes.

Chump.

[iluvtennis]

19. drmpf needs to it, not sarah huckabee saying he said it.

[DallasNE]

20. That's Not Going To Put The Toothpaste Back In The Tube

This is a predictable and predicted consequence of Trump's own words during the campaign. He and he alone is responsible for what is happening right now so time to own up.

[NNadir]

21. He's full of shit. He's been a small minded bigot his entire life and history will record him...

...as such.

He brought this on, but being a small man with a small mind he doesn't know how to control what he's done.

And since he's nothing more than a narcissist, he is emotionally incapable of confronting what a loser he is, and his country is, by placing such a piece of garbage in this position.

[defacto7]

23. means he doesn't

nt

[TomCADem]

24. Of course, moments before, he was suggesting that attacks on Jews were a false flag operation

[Turbineguy]

25. He condemns it

while it accomplishes his goals.