Allen West recently praised a plan to exterminate Muslims, and now hes meeting with Donald Trump
Source: salon
Monday, Dec 12, 2016 11:34 AM CST
The former Tea Party congressman's genocidal meme was about Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Gen. James Mattis
Sophia Tesfaye
Former Florida Tea Party congressman turned right-wing pundit Allen West returned to Trump Tower for his second visit with the president-elect and his transition team in one week, even as he failed to publicly apologize for sharing a meme with his 2.5 million Facebook followers that praised Donald Trumps pick to run the Pentagon for his plan to exterminate Muslims.
When West, rumored to be in talks to join Trumps national security team, arrived for his second meeting with the president-elect on Monday, he was remarkably not asked by any member of the gathered press about the meme he shared praising Trumps pick to be defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mad Dog Mattis.
Mattis, an Obama appointee, stepped down from his United States Central Command in 2013, just months after recommending to the president that at least 13,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan past the scheduled end of the combat mission in 2014.
Shortly after midnight Friday, West praised Mattis with a meme posted to his official Facebook post. The meme showed Mattis with the words Fired by Obama to please the Muslims. Hired by Trump to exterminate them:
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bluedigger
(17,087 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)I have never felt so afraid for our country. I feel sick with worry about the perversions he's going to promulgate, and I fear for the safety of my co-citizens.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)why you are losers. This guy about to go into the WH is clearly a madman. Also, he is going to provoke some kind of war for sure IMO, and hard to tell what that might escalate into. We are in such deep sh** I can't even believe this is the US.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)birds of a feather flock together
bone spurs dumpster and assault west while in uniform
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/9/29/1137904/-Allen-West-Had-To-Resign-From-Army-To-Avoid-Court-Martial-He-s-Equally-Unfit-to-Serve-in-Congress
https://www.thenation.com/article/so-allen-west-wants-talk-about-his-military-record/
Hey West, FU and the horse you road in on
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Here's another Trump supporter, Pamela Taylor, who considers West an "ape".
Maybe Trump could put them on a committee together.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/an-ape-in-heels-wv-officials-slur-michelle-obama-and-say-melania-trump-will-be-refreshing/
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)in the Trumpian Anteroom.
Where those who wait, also serve.