"The flagship news and current affairs program of the BBC wasn’t in any doubt about who to blame for America’s latest bout of mass shootings.
...‘Today, Donald Trump called on Americans to condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.’She added that the president had made these remarks ‘with a straight face’ and ‘with autocue precision’ — completely insincere, in other words – and then pointed out that he had not suggested any new measures for gun control.
She concluded: ‘So how much should we align presidential words and terrorist acts?
Those are good questions and it’s a pity Newsnight didn’t take them seriously.
There are plenty of reasons not to blame Trump for last weekend’s slaughter.
- For one thing, the El Paso gunman railed against climate change alongside Hispanic immigration in the manifesto he published before murdering 22 people, and the president is a climate change skeptic, as liberals never tire of pointing out.
- For another, the Dayton shooter, who murdered nine, was a self-described ‘leftist’ who praised Elizabeth Warren and Antifa, the far-left protest group.
- Incidentally, the terrorist who charged an ICE detention center with homemade bombs and a rifle last month was a member of Antifa and referred to his target as a ‘concentration camp’, echoing the words of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Congresswoman.
Yet Newsnight didn’t ask whether the ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ of Warren or Ocasio-Cortez ‘inspired’ these whackjobs.
No, it bought into the line peddled by Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke — and countless others — that all mass killings that have taken place on Trump’s watch have been by ‘white supremacists’..."
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