Trump's Inciteful Language Stirs Up Violence: Is Not Fake, False, or Phony Reporting

Coast Guard LT. Christopher Hasson’s weapons stockpile 

(Held racist & anti-immigrant views on a “hit list”)

Violence incited by Trump from this ABC News (via MSN) study and analysis.

Introduction: A nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 36 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence, or allegations of assault.

All that is despite Trump saying this in his own defense: “I think my rhetoric brings people together.” 

That statement was a mere four days after 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius posted an anti-immigrant screed online and then opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, TX killing 22 and injuring dozens of others. Later he admitted to the police: “I'm the shooter.”

Synopsis of those 36 cases:

·       In nine cases, perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate aftermath of physically attacking innocent victims.

·       In another 10 cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others.

·       In still another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.

·       Seven cases involved violent or threatening acts perpetrated in defiance of Trump, with many of them targeting Trump's allies in Congress.

·       The vast majority of those cases – 29 of the 36 – reflect someone echoing his rhetoric, not protesting it.

Note: ABC News could not find a single criminal case filed in federal or state court where an act of violence or threat was made in the name of former Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush.

The 36 cases identified by ABC News are remarkable in that a link to the president is captured in court documents and police statements, under the penalty of perjury or contempt.

In many cases of assault or threat, charges are never filed, perpetrators are never identified or the incident is never even reported to authorities. And most criminal acts committed by Trump supporters or his detractors have nothing to do with the president. But in 36 cases, court records and police reports indicated some sort of link.

The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 36 cases are mostly white men – as young as teenagers and as old as 75 – while the victims largely represent an array of minority groups: African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, and gay men.

Pictures and more details continue in the ABC News article.

My 2 cents: Not much to add to this except to say the facts stand alone and speak volumes about this man now sitting in the Oval Office.

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