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riversedge

(70,197 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:28 PM May 2017

Grieving Portland mom urges President Trump to take action after white supremacist train stabbing

Source: nyDailynews





Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 2:08 PM

A grieving mom beseeched President Trump to “take action” after her hero son was slain by a knife-wielding white supremacist in Portland.

Asha Deliverance, whose 23-year-old son Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche died Friday defending two young women from an Islamophobia-spewing light-rail rider, urged the President to condemn violence in a moving Memorial Day letter.

“You have said that you will be President for all Americans,” she wrote in a letter obtained by the Washington Post. “So, I ask you Mr. President to take action at this time. Your words and actions are meaningful, here in America and throughout the world.

“Please encourage all Americans to protect and watch out for one another. Please condemn any acts of violence, which result directly from hate speech & hate groups. I am praying you will use your leadership to do so.”..........................

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Grieving Portland mom urges President Trump to take action after white supremacist train stabbing (Original Post) riversedge May 2017 OP
Please dont hold your breath. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1
yep heaven05 May 2017 #5
I'm sorry. He's busy planning his next rally so he can hear how awesome he is. nolabear May 2017 #2
I wish I could say Trump would be affected by this incident but I really doubt he is Thinkingabout May 2017 #3
the POS residing at 1600 heaven05 May 2017 #4
Has that incident even been reported on Fox? I mentioned it to two people doc03 May 2017 #6
Yeah, sure Trump will do something jmowreader May 2017 #7
That's a tall order .... flying-skeleton May 2017 #8
Trump only cares about himself... yuiyoshida May 2017 #9
Good luck with that........ SergeStorms May 2017 #10
there was this: orleans May 2017 #11
The president's lack of action says everything IronLionZion May 2017 #12
Trump HATES grieving moms and hero sons. Sugar Smack May 2017 #13
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. yep
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:53 PM
May 2017

true. The murderer is a reflection of the hatred stoked and encouraged by the orange boy who would be potus in the last 15 months or so.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
2. I'm sorry. He's busy planning his next rally so he can hear how awesome he is.
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:37 PM
May 2017

Meanwhile, ordinary citizens have to work to hold the very idea of humanity together.

Between this and the two young Native American men here in WA who were run down (also ignored) I am so ashamed of what he has wrought.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. I wish I could say Trump would be affected by this incident but I really doubt he is
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:38 PM
May 2017

but with the hate and statements he has made at his campaign speeches, he is probably thinking this radical home grown terrorists did the right thing. If the president was President Obama he would be really touched and would address this.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. the POS residing at 1600
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:50 PM
May 2017

DOES NOT CARE about this woman's son. He encouraged white rage at blacks, browns and all not white male and so-called KKKristian. He stoked the rage apparent in this white supremacist terrorist who murdered these two who stood up to bigotry, racism and hate.

doc03

(35,325 posts)
6. Has that incident even been reported on Fox? I mentioned it to two people
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:54 PM
May 2017

I know that watch Fox 24/7 and they never heard of it. I can only imagine if that would have been a Muslim or African American that
that murdered those people.

jmowreader

(50,555 posts)
7. Yeah, sure Trump will do something
Tue May 30, 2017, 07:54 PM
May 2017

"Jeremy Joseph Christian, I hereby present you a full presidential pardon and the Medal of Freedom."

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
10. Good luck with that........
Wed May 31, 2017, 12:11 AM
May 2017

the way Trump sees it, there's two fewer Democrats to stand in his way of being Dictator in Chief. It further emboldens the toxic, murderous cretins Trump calls his "base", as well.

Trump, and his ilk, are the lowest forms of life on the planet. They don't deserve the air they breathe.

orleans

(34,051 posts)
11. there was this:
Wed May 31, 2017, 02:07 AM
May 2017

"The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable,” the President wrote. “The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them.”

"The statement was issued to his professional account, not his personal one which most of his alt-right base follows."
http://mashable.com/2017/05/29/trump-portland-tweet/#QkhLuWxLX5qj

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
12. The president's lack of action says everything
Wed May 31, 2017, 07:59 AM
May 2017

along with the continued denial of the existence of white terrorism and pulling law enforcement resources off of monitoring white supremacist terrorist groups

Anyone who thinks terrorists are brown is part of the problem.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
13. Trump HATES grieving moms and hero sons.
Wed May 31, 2017, 10:21 AM
May 2017

He has contempt for anyone who struggles, anyone who lives & dies by their humanity. This "plebeian" cry for help (or for an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT) from the Trump admin has probably been confronted with scorn, or not at all. If it can't make Trump even richer & more "powerful", it simply doesn't exist.

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