Trump on white nationalism: "Not a rising threat"

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump says he does not see white nationalism as a rising threat around the world following an attack targeting Muslims in New Zealand that killed at least 49 people.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/03/15/trump-white-nationalism-sot-vpx.cnn

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Hit the link, you will hear the comment. Trump is wrong again, and very stupid for saying this.

[underpants]

1. "Small group of people"

[Stuart G]

2. Tens of thousands of Trump's supporters..

Yep, small group. Maybe hundreds of thousands.

[sandensea]

27. And 'very fine' people at that

What could go wrong?

[RKP5637]

3. ... thereby proving yet again what a damn ignorant clueless thug he is. n/t

[SunSeeker]

4. Christchurch attack: suspect had white-supremacist symbols on weapons

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-suspect-white-supremacist-symbols-weapons

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Trump not stupid. Clever but very unwise. Knows his base does not condemn white nazionalizm. . . nt

[George II]

6. Not a threat to him, maybe.

[forgotmylogin]

26. Ding ding ding ding ding!

"Rising attacks on henhouses: not a threat," declared President Coyote when interviewed.

[Solly Mack]

7. When you think Nazis are good people is it any wonder you would also claim

that white nationalism isn't a threat much less a rising threat? Anyone who calls Nazis good people would see white nationalism as a plus and not a threat.

[Return to Sanity]

8. Of course he doesn't think it's a threat as he is a world wide leader in the white nationalist

thought process. It's as if he tacitly approves such actions.

[duforsure]

9. He knows that's false

But has to lie about it to hide the fact it is rising, and because of people like him, and the Republican Party, who are behind them, and they are being branded as White Nationalist too.

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. well, I mean there are very fine people on both sides so...

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. he. Knows. exactly. what. he. is. doing.

[Solomon]

12. Yep

[Bleacher Creature]

13. He's correct.

It's an active, ongoing, and significant threat, not just a "rising" one. And he's done more to make that happen than just about anyone.

[catbyte]

14. Not to you, asshole. They're your goddamned base.

[colsohlibgal]

15. He Has To Go

If we survive this horrible aberration it will be interesting to see how history writes of this time....If there is a history ahead.

One thing seems clear....racism endured mostly underground till we elected a man of color. Then they burst forth.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. But women and children, fleeing violence in Central America, are a "national security threat."

[PatrickforO]

17. I do. n/t

[Mrs. Overall]

18. Just when I think I can't hate this asshole more.... I hate him more.

I used to be a person who didn't hate.

[videohead5]

19. It's all about

Votes for him that's why he played dumb when he was ask about David Duke during the 2016 campaign.

[sakabatou]

20. That's your goddamned base, Trumpy!

[dalton99a]

21. "Violence perpetrated by the far right is on the rise"

The U.S. Anti-Defamation League attempts a broader count, stressing murderers’ links with far-right organizations rather than their stated motives. According to the group, right-wing extremists were responsible for 70 percent of the 427 extremist-related killings that occurred in the U.S. in the past 10 years. In 2018, every one of the perpetrators of the 37 extremist-related murders in the U.S. had ties to at least one far-right movement, although one had recently switched to supporting Islamist extremism, the ADL says.

Importantly, the number of incidents of violence perpetrated by the far right is on the rise. The Institute for Economics and Peace noted in its 2018 Global Terrorism Index report that the number of such killings increased from three in 2014 to 17 in 2017.

Meanwhile, Islamist-inspired terrorism appears to be on the wane, with the attempt to create a caliphate in the Middle East roundly defeated and the ideal of pure Islamic statehood losing its attractiveness to the assorted misfits among the West’s Muslim minorities. According to Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center’s Global Attack Index, fatalities linked to Islamic State declined by 51.5 percent in 2018.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-15/after-christchurch-far-right-terror-needs-urgent-scrutiny

[Mc Mike]

22. All his nazi buddies denied they were a rising threat. Very strongly.

[The Liberal Lion]

23. Nazis not a threat but asylum seekers are?

I just want to make sure I'm hearing this correctly.

[Botany]

24. Did he flash the white power hand sign when said it is just a "small group"

[Evolve Dammit]

25. He absolutley is calling for violence, and it's not even that subtle anymore

come to think of it, it never was subtle...

[marble falls]

28. Well of course he said that ...

?ops=936_526,prog,quality_75

[TNNurse]

29. He promotes white nationalism, so of course it is no threat.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Says the man who felt it OK to look straight at the sun.....

and participate in unprotected sex, and not keep track of refugee children after yanking them from parents, and allowing industry to pollute our air and water without control, and throw harmful tariffs on nations that are our allies, and......

the list goes on forever...... .......

[mahatmakanejeeves]

31. Do you ever notice that when it comes to the KKK, racists, white nationalists, etc.,

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

Do you ever notice that when it comes to the KKK, racists, white nationalists, etc., Trump always "doesn't know enough about it" to have an opinion?

Which is funny because he claims to know more than military generals, etymologists, nuclear physicists, scientists. and doctors.🤔

Link to tweet

[Legrant]

32. Trump is racist

He keeps proving it day after day.

[EarthFirst]

33. Why would he view his base be a threat?

[ut oh]

35. He doesn't think it's a issue

because he wants more of it.