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DonViejo

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Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:44 AM Aug 2017

NY Post: Trump 'Badly Missed The Mark' With Lukewarm Charlottesville Response

By ESME CRIBB Published AUGUST 14, 2017 10:28 AM

One of President Donald Trump’s favorite news sources on Sunday took a stronger stance than he did, and condemned Trump’s own milquetoast remarks on a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one person died after a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters.

In an editorial titled “Trump badly missed the mark on Charlottesville,” the editorial board of the New York Post called for Trump to “find the right words.”

Trump on Saturday failed to address the hate groups at the rally, instead condemning “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides — on many sides.”

“Really: That was it,” the editorial board wrote. “Yet ‘many sides’ didn’t drive a car into a crowd, an evident act of terrorism that killed Heather Heyer, 32, and hospitalized many more.”

The editorial board said the President shouldn’t have a difficult time summoning “a few Trumpian terms like ‘losers’ and ‘really, really bad people’ to describe the hundreds of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white supremacists and the like who descended on the college town — not after one of them has killed an innocent.”

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NY Post: Trump 'Badly Missed The Mark' With Lukewarm Charlottesville Response (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
tRump nothing but a coward. bdamomma Aug 2017 #1
I despise him more every day. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #2
Most bullys are cowards. He'd run from his own shadow. Luz Aug 2017 #5
we have a man with no conscience. bdamomma Aug 2017 #3
Damn. He lost the NY Post? underpants Aug 2017 #4
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. I despise him more every day.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:50 AM
Aug 2017

I keep thinking that it's not possible to loathe him more than I do but then something else happens and my hatred only intensifies.

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