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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Implicates Ronald Reagan in Orlando Massacre
Let's start out by looking at this quote from Donald Trump.
Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump said Monday that the man suspected of opening fire on an LGBT nightclub Sunday in Orlando, Florida and killing 49 people was only able to do so because of the nation's "immigration system."
"The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here," Trump said at a rally in New Hampshire. "That is a fact and a fact we need to talk about."
We can certainly substantiate that Ronald Reagan was President when Omar Marteen, the Orlando shooter, was born in 1986.
I haven't been able to verify it, but it would be a logical assumption, that his parents came from Afghanistan sometime between 1981 and 1986.
So applying Trump logic to the statement he made, either Jimmy Carter is to blame, or Ronald Reagan. The numbers and history seem to back Reagan in this assumption.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)In the JFK assassination. ..Ronnie was on the grassy knoll as well as being a card carrying member of the Manson family. He's a freakin nut job. No fan of Reagan but at least he could put sentences together unlike Trump Monkey.