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New Congresscritter Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump of Emboldening Racists

2018-11-29

[NR] Making the click-through worthwhile: A newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota declares that President Trump is ultimately responsible for a higher number of hate crimes in the past year; the last U.S. Senate race of 2018 ends with a Republican win and a potentially tougher road ahead for Democrats; a new report suggests that low-income workers are having a more difficult time finding housing.

Minnesota Congresswoman: Trump Emboldens Racists to Acts of Violence

Ilhan Omar, the newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, has wasted no time finding President Trump responsible for hate crimes, writing in the Minnesota Star Tribune:

Hate crimes in this country are continuing to increase at an alarming rate. According to the FBI’s annual report released this month, the number of incidents increased about 17 percent compared with last year. That is the largest increase in these types of cowardly acts since 2001. The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence.

Trump says a lot of obnoxious, incendiary things. But it’s fair to ask where Omar or anyone else would draw the line separating a "culture of intolerance that emboldens racist individuals to acts of violence" from acceptable and heated political rhetoric. For all of his myriad flaws, Trump has never encouraged anyone to shoot up a synagogue or mail bombs to people, and it’s unfair to insinuate or suggest that he has. This is denouncing a demagogue with more demagoguery.

Posted by:Besoeker

If only Bath House Barry was still in the White House.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-29 15:15

#4 Can't wait until this creature insists the House shut down a couple times a day for "prayers." And most of the dems vote in favor of that. Then can't wait to hear Roberts try to explain how doing that isn't "an establishment of religion."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-11-29 15:08

#3 That's odd i distinctly remember 0bama making race into everything...

In fact he made the biggest ethnic voting group vote in their own interests like all the others...

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-11-29 12:47

#2 Nearly enuf to make me cancal my subscription to Piragis Northwoods Company catalog out of Ely, MN.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-29 07:03

#1 A newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota declares that President Trump is ultimately responsible for a higher number of hate crimes in the past year;

If you take the position that Trump, as CEO of America, is ultimately responsible for everything that happens on his watch, then he is also responsible for junior Congress critters making dumb-ass statements.

Let us ignore for the moment the fact that all the hate crimes reported by the media seem to end up as hoaxes.

Posted by: SteveS 2018-11-29 06:58

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