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NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 08:00 PM Dec 2017

TRUMP WAS RIGHT! [View all]

Remember when he said in his inimitable style:

"My people are so smart. And you know what else they say about my people, the polls? They say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible."


Now there's a poll to check if he was right. Turns out, he was (for once):

Public Policy Polling put that claim to the test, and it mostly held up. Forty-five percent of Trump voters said they would approve of the president shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, while just 29 percent disapproved. Twenty-six percent, somehow, were unsure about their thoughts about whether it would be OK for Trump to shoot a random person on the street.
via Newsweek


Let that sink in. 45% of Trump voters said it was okay for a president* of the United States to murder someone in cold blood, as long as it was Donald Trump. And 26% just didn't know, couldn't decide, if that would be right or wrong.

These are the people whom we are told we must "reach out" to.
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