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I'm glad he drew that connecting line.https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/29/gov-andrew-cuomo-blames-trump-for-hanukkah-stabbing.html
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blames Trump For Hanukkah Stabbing
Posted on Sun, Dec 29th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said that Trump is fomenting political hate that spreading to the culture after the Hanukkah stabbing.
Gov. Cuomo said on MSNBC:
That has now become the dialogue and the currency of this nation and its in politics, but then it resonates out of the politics into society. And now you see people who are acting out on those hateful acts and people are impressionable, and some people are lost and some people are vessels and some people are ill, and they hear it and they respond.
Link to tweet
The Governor drew a clear line between Trumps use of hate as a political weapon and the violent attacks that are being carried out against people who Trump and his supporters view as their enemies. Trump spends his days spewing at American citizens and their cities, and then he pretends to be presidential when the inevitable violence that his words gave the green light to injures or kills innocent people.
Cuomo did what many political media leaders refuse to do. He connected Trumps leadership to the violence. Until Trump is forced to pay a political cost for his hate speech, he will continue to endanger innocent people.
Trump must be held accountable for the culture of violence and hate that he is enabling and encouraging.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)are seen as a positive IMO by tRump and his cohorts!
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(22,038 posts)PCIntern
(25,688 posts)these Orthodox observant Jews generally vote Republican. I treat many in my practice and we talk a fair amount of religion AND politics 🤪 and all of mine are Trumpers.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)trumpie has encouraged and enabled the spread of hatred in this country since he rode down on his escalator to tell us that Mexicans were rapists and murders. He has insulted and attacked virtually every segment of our society. He traffics in hate and when people turn his words into actions, he tries to distance himself from the inevitable ramifications. Well, Andy isn't having any of it.
I applaud him for standing up and saying exactly what he said. It's about time someone did.
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