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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:39 AM Feb 2019

Jr claims most hate crimes are hoaxes

BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 2/25/19 AT 3:02 PM

Donald Trump Jr. took to Fox & Friends Monday morning to falsely dismiss the majority of hate crime victims as liars.

“There were many more hoax hate crimes than there were actual," he said on the morning program, failing to cite any sources. Trump Jr. eventually clarified that “the problem is, those hate crimes do still exist, racism is still a real problem in this country,” before returning to his original line of thought. “But it’s not the problem for everything, every grievance that you have,” he said. “And so what happens is these things really do a disservice from people who are truly afflicted by this ... Every grievance, everything that you can’t combat with facts, it’s ‘oh, racist!’ It’s the easy button for the left, and it’s not fair and it’s not right” ...

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-hate-crimes-hoaxes-fox-friends-jussie-smollett-1343168

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Jr claims most hate crimes are hoaxes (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
except imaginary hate crimes against Republicans struggle4progress Feb 2019 #1
and the frightening deep state conspiracy struggle4progress Feb 2019 #2
Any chance that Jr. will be safeinOhio Feb 2019 #3
This a**hole is a dunce. democratisphere Feb 2019 #4
He makes his dullard dad look like Socrates. Dave Starsky Feb 2019 #7
Donald John Drumpf Jr.'s name is a hoax. All Drumpf's live by the hoax, and so they Maru Kitteh Feb 2019 #5
Jr.: Apparently, you have to get actually lynched for it to be a hate crime. He's a sick fuck!!! winstars Feb 2019 #6
annthrax says the same BS. pansypoo53219 Feb 2019 #8

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
1. except imaginary hate crimes against Republicans
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:44 AM
Feb 2019
Jr: You’d be shot if you wore a MAGA hat in Chicago
BY TODD NEIKIRK
February 25, 2019

... you know, if you wore a MAGA hat in downtown Chicago, you probably wouldn’t last too long. Okay? About two seconds until you get shot ...

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
2. and the frightening deep state conspiracy
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:46 AM
Feb 2019
Jr. Calls Feds ‘Stalinist’
Posted by News Team | Feb 26, 2019 | News

... eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., accused federal prosecutors in a “Fox & Friends” interview of resorting to “Stalinist” tactics as they investigate the president’s inaugural committee and company ...

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
7. He makes his dullard dad look like Socrates.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:24 AM
Feb 2019

Born into any other family, he'd be pushing a mop in the men's room at a McDonalds.

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
5. Donald John Drumpf Jr.'s name is a hoax. All Drumpf's live by the hoax, and so they
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 05:27 AM
Feb 2019

find it an "easy button" to accuse others.

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