By the time the 2016 election is over with in November, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is probably going to need a few years of vacation. He’s been gritting his teeth and trying to defend his presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, for nearly a year, and each day it gets more stressful.
Yesterday, Priebus appeared on CNN and was asked by host Wolf Blitzer why Trump had tweeted out a photo of Hillary Clinton which featured a Star of David on it. Trump has since changed the photo even though he swears it was just meant to be a “sheriff’s star” and not anti-Semitic at all. Of course, the image came from a white supremacist web site, but Priebus told Blitzer:
“They figured it out, and they fixed it.”
What the chairman neglected to mention was this: If the star wasn’t meant to be offensive, why in the hell did Trump see the need to change it in the first place? If it’s a sheriff’s star, then leave it up and walk away knowing you’re in the right.
But here’s the simple fact of the matter: Trump knew where he got the image, knew what it represented, had a specific intent by using it, and is only sorry he got caught doing so. Is Trump anti-Semitic? I’d be willing to be a few thousand bucks in Vegas that he is. Let’s not forget that has been playing footsie with neo-Nazis and the KKK for months now. He is trying to stir up hatred and then ride that wave to the Oval Office.
In case you’re wondering if other members of the GOP are willing to go along with Trump’s tactics, House Speaker Paul Ryan said yesterday the star was quite clearly anti-Semitic. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is now trying to blame Microsoft for making the image available on Word, their word processing program.
The only person to blame for the hatred being incited by Donald Trump is Trump himself. He is a lowlife scumbag who doesn’t care what happens to others as long as it serves his goals.
Here’s Reince Priebus lying like a rug on CNN yesterday:
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