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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,996 posts)
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 07:04 PM Oct 2018

Jim Acosta: Trump has 'normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty'

CNN's Jim Acosta said Monday that President Trump has "normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty" in the U.S.

Speaking at a political conference hosted by CNN, the White House correspondent said that during a rally last week in Montana, a Trump supporter "was doing these body slam moves" and made a throat-slitting gesture at Acosta. Acosta said he spoke to the man after the event and said the man laughed about the incident.

“I guess he wasn’t serious about it, but to me that’s the Trump effect on America. It has normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty in a way that I just never thought I would see," Acosta said.

Acosta tweeted after the Montana rally, in which Trump praised a GOP lawmaker who assaulted a reporter, that a young man "looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/412628-cnns-acosta-trump-effect-has-normalized-and-sanitized-nastiness-and-cruelty

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Jim Acosta: Trump has 'normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 OP
There's nothing normal or sanitary about it C_U_L8R Oct 2018 #1
Know you're right, but it's so over the top with these few, they're all a kennedy Oct 2018 #4
This. dhol82 Oct 2018 #2
THE PRESS NORMALIZED TRUMP GusBob Oct 2018 #3
And I thought Dumbya was bad. lpbk2713 Oct 2018 #5

a kennedy

(29,663 posts)
4. Know you're right, but it's so over the top with these few, they're all
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 07:10 PM
Oct 2018

loud, wrong, and gawd damn annoying.

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
2. This.
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 07:07 PM
Oct 2018

This scares me more than anything else the orange idiot has done.
Normalizing crazy is creating a base for them to build on.
If anyone ever wondered how Nazi germany was created, just look on at what is happening in Washington.
GOTV!

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