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Flunkee Flashback Exchange
The New York Times quotes from a conversation between then-President Donald Trump with his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, after a far-right gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso in 2019.
TRUMP: What are we going to do about assault rifles?
MULVANEY: Not a damn thing.
TRUMP: Why?
MULVANEY: Because, you would lose.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/27/flashback-exchange-of-the-day-2/
On Aug. 3, 2019, a far-right gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso. Early the next morning, a man shot and killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio. Both assailants used semiautomatic rifles.
At the White House the next day, Mr. Trump was so shaken by the weekend’s violence that he questioned aides about a specific potential solution and made clear he wanted to take action, according to three people present during the conversation.
Even Trump knew that the real American carnage was being caused by his followers’ ridiculous addiction to guns. But he, like the whole country, is held hostage by the selfish, brainwashed gun nuts who believe that they are ciphers in this world without a fucking firearm to give them a sense of identity. If they can’t strut sound with AR-15s slung over their shoulders they are nothing. What pathetic creatures they are.
https://digbysblog.net/2022/05/27/even-trump-thought-assault-weapons-were-a-bad-idea/
At the White House the next day, Mr. Trump was so shaken by the weekend’s violence that he questioned aides about a specific potential solution and made clear he wanted to take action, according to three people present during the conversation.
“What are we going to do about assault rifles?” Mr. Trump asked.
“Not a damn thing,” Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff, replied.
“Why?” Trump demanded.
“Because,” Mr. Mulvaney told him, “you would lose.”
“Say no more,” said Trump (probably) and he never mentioned it again.
Even Trump knew that the real American carnage was being caused by his followers’ ridiculous addiction to guns. But he, like the whole country, is held hostage by the selfish, brainwashed gun nuts who believe that they are ciphers in this world without a fucking firearm to give them a sense of identity. If they can’t strut sound with AR-15s slung over their shoulders they are nothing. What pathetic creatures they are.
https://digbysblog.net/2022/05/27/even-trump-thought-assault-weapons-were-a-bad-idea/
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