The context:
Yes, during the video he referred to MS-13, that still doesn't change the fact that what the people he intended the message to go to heard was 'Mexican' which is the shorthand used in the US for latinos. It was intended as a blood libel.
Donald Trump is a misogynist racist man-child who sees himself as a "Tony Soprano" but one thing I give him is that he understands human psychology enough to know how to manipulate people, and send the exact message he wants his people to hear.
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From here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...olicy.html
Blaming others for his own messes is his S.O.P. But he has previously expressed the view that this cruelty is his preferred way, so he owns this.
NY Times Wrote:President Trump said his description of some immigrants as ‘animals’ referred to MS-13 members. But his remarks came during a discussion on how to prosecute immigrants in sanctuary cities, which don’t protect gang members who committed horrific crimes.
Yes, during the video he referred to MS-13, that still doesn't change the fact that what the people he intended the message to go to heard was 'Mexican' which is the shorthand used in the US for latinos. It was intended as a blood libel.
Donald Trump is a misogynist racist man-child who sees himself as a "Tony Soprano" but one thing I give him is that he understands human psychology enough to know how to manipulate people, and send the exact message he wants his people to hear.
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From here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...olicy.html
Quote:The child-separation policy was implemented by Trump’s own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who said, when he announced it, that “If you’re smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law.”
Blaming others for his own messes is his S.O.P. But he has previously expressed the view that this cruelty is his preferred way, so he owns this.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg