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babylonsister

(170,960 posts)
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 06:03 PM Dec 2019

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blames Trump For Hanukkah Stabbing

I'm glad he drew that connecting line.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/29/gov-andrew-cuomo-blames-trump-for-hanukkah-stabbing.html


Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blames Trump For Hanukkah Stabbing
Posted on Sun, Dec 29th, 2019 by Jason Easley


Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said that Trump is fomenting political hate that spreading to the culture after the Hanukkah stabbing.

Gov. Cuomo said on MSNBC:

What can anyone make of President Trump’s tweets? They say more about the sender than anything else. New York, he believes, is a Democratic state, and this is how he plays to his partisan base, by demonizing Democrats. Democrats are evil, Democrats are bad, Democrats have lost their mind, they’re anti-American. You foment the hate and then you’re shocked when you see these episodes of hate all across the country?

That has now become the dialogue and the currency of this nation and it’s in politics, but then it resonates out of the politics into society. And now you see people who are acting out on those hateful acts and people are impressionable, and some people are lost and some people are vessels and some people are ill, and they hear it and they respond
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The Governor drew a clear line between Trump’s use of hate as a political weapon and the violent attacks that are being carried out against people who Trump and his supporters view as their enemies. Trump spends his days spewing at American citizens and their cities, and then he pretends to be presidential when the inevitable violence that his words gave the green light to injures or kills innocent people.

Cuomo did what many political media leaders refuse to do. He connected Trump’s leadership to the violence. Until Trump is forced to pay a political cost for his hate speech, he will continue to endanger innocent people.

Trump must be held accountable for the culture of violence and hate that he is enabling and encouraging.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blames Trump For Hanukkah Stabbing (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2019 OP
Yes, I agree so much! tRump, has created a hostile nation wherein often violence and outrageousness RKP5637 Dec 2019 #1
I absolutely agree with Governor Cuomo. wendyb-NC Dec 2019 #2
Nazi Germany on the horizon. triron Dec 2019 #3
It's quite ironic because PCIntern Dec 2019 #4
Bravo to Governor Cuomo. He went there. Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2019 #5
This...Abc news: No Blame? 36 cases invoke trump in connection with violence RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2019 #6

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
1. Yes, I agree so much! tRump, has created a hostile nation wherein often violence and outrageousness
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 06:11 PM
Dec 2019

are seen as a positive IMO by tRump and his cohorts!

PCIntern

(25,342 posts)
4. It's quite ironic because
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 06:59 PM
Dec 2019

these Orthodox observant Jews generally vote Republican. I treat many in my practice and we talk a fair amount of religion AND politics 🤪 and all of mine are Trumpers.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
5. Bravo to Governor Cuomo. He went there.
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 08:22 PM
Dec 2019

trumpie has encouraged and enabled the spread of hatred in this country since he rode down on his escalator to tell us that Mexicans were rapists and murders. He has insulted and attacked virtually every segment of our society. He traffics in hate and when people turn his words into actions, he tries to distance himself from the inevitable ramifications. Well, Andy isn't having any of it.

I applaud him for standing up and saying exactly what he said. It's about time someone did.

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