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Gary Johnson, says Donald Trump is ‘clearly’ racist
Gary Johnson, toughening rhetoric, says Donald Trump is ‘clearly’ racist
By Callum Borchers July 3 at 11:42 AM
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson on Sunday went where Hillary Clinton has refused to go, saying Donald Trump is "clearly" racist.
"Based on his statements, clearly," Johnson said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I mean, if statements are being made, is that not reflective?"
Critics of Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee — including some in his own party — have said that he makes racist statements, such as when he argued that a Hispanic judge is incapable of presiding fairly over a case involving Trump University. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) called that the "textbook definition of a racist comment." But most have stopped short of declaring that Trump is racist.
Clinton, too, has distinguished between what Trump says and who he is. When MSNBC's Rachel Maddow asked last month whether Trump is racist, this was Clinton's response:
Well, I don't know what's in his heart, but I know what he's saying with respect to the judge, that's a racist attack. With the attacks on so many other people, he is calling them out for their ethnic background, their race, their religion, their gender. I don't know what else you could call these attacks other than racist, other than prejudice, other than bigoted.
For Johnson, averaging about 8 percent in national polls, calling Trump racist represents a notable ratcheting up of campaign rhetoric. The mellow former governor of New Mexico said during a CNN town hall on June 22 that he did not plan to "engage in any sort of name-calling" aimed at either of the leading major-party candidates. His running mate, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, called Trump a "huckster" at that event, though.
On Sunday, Johnson initially tried to focus only on Trump's comments — specifically his recent statement that he is "looking at" replacing Muslim Transportation Security Administration agents with veterans.
"He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president, but [it] doesn’t seem to affect him," Johnson said. "And just turn the page, and here’s the page turn: Now we have another reason that might disqualify a presidential candidate. That statement [about TSA agents] in and of itself — it really is, uh, it’s racist.
Johnson added that “the stuff he’s saying is just incendiary.”
"Incendiary, but do you think he himself is racist?" asked CNN's Brianna Keilar.
At that point, Johnson said Trump "clearly" is.
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I would call him a more back-handedly racist which is in some respects is more dangerous than an overt racist.
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Oops, the Donald offends another group.
He sent out a message declaring Clinton the "most corrupt ever" emblazoned on a Star of David with money in the background.
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Looks like The Donald shot himself in the foot again this weekend with that tweet, when could have just sat back and let Clinton's FBI interview be the dominant story for the three day holiday weekend.
He is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Goose wrote:
Looks like The Donald shot himself in the foot again this weekend with that tweet, when could have just sat back and let Clinton's FBI interview be the dominant story for the three day holiday weekend.
He is the gift that keeps on giving.
And you know exactly what will happen - nothing! You'd think that at this point he'd have shot himself in the foot enough times that his candidacy would be faltering. Not so. He's an expert manipulator and has surrounded himself with the same, it seems. He's got all of his supporters saying that it's not a Star of David - it's a sheriff's star, it's a Microsoft Word shape, it's this, it's that, and if you think he was in the wrong then you're a corrupted weakling loser who doesn't have as much money as him and probably sympathizes with terrorists. I just can't wrap my head around it, that's fifth grade schoolyard bully 101 and a there are millions of grown adults who are getting behind him. That is what politics has become.
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I hear ya.
I am pretty sure that I will go to my grave failing to understand how anyone could support that awful man.
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Yeah, but the Drumpf campaign, after being inundated with negative comments over the use of the Star of David, sheriff's star, random geometric shape, or whatever other lame excuse they could come up with, took the image down and then put it back online 3 hours later with a circle superimposed over what was initially the star.
Nobody at the Drumpf campaign would comment on the change.
At least somebody could have said "Ooopps, my bad".
But, no. It seems the people associated with Drumpf's campaign feel it's best to keep your mouth shut after committing a stupid move that makes them look like idiots, than to try to explain it and remove all doubt.
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According to this CNN article, Trump's social media guy explained the whole debacle:
On Monday night the Trump campaign's social media director, Daniel Scavino, filled in some details on what he said were the image's origins.
"The social media graphic used this weekend was not created by the campaign nor was it sourced from an anti-Semitic site," Scavino said in a statement separate from Trump's. "It was lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear."
"The sheriff's badge -- which is available under Microsoft's 'shapes' -- fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it," Scavino added.
Scavino also said that as the campaign's social media director, "I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image."
Am I the only one who thinks that all of Trump's campaign staff sound just like him? Speaking in half-truths, exaggerations, etc. He's right in that the image wasn't created by the campaign, nor was it taken from an anti-Semitic website...Twitter is not inherently anti-Semitic. But then he says it was taken from an "anti-Hillary" user where "countless" images appear. He doesn't address the fact that the Twitter user who took credit for creating the image posted questionable content before deleting the account, but Trump's supporters are only going to follow the story up to the point where they can continue to justify the campaign's tactics and behavior. The rest of us are then treated like idiots when the social media guy says the "sheriff's star" is found in Microsoft's shapes gallery and that he would "never offend" anybody. I'm sure he's a fine guy, but come on. You oopsed. Own it.
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On Scavino's 'explanation':
"It was clear as mud, but it covered de groun' ". West Indian saying.