New low: Tailgunner Don
by digby
That picture above features Senator Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his lieutenant. Roy Cohn was Donald Trump’s mentor.
Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen.
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Trump said in a lengthy interview on Fox News early Monday morning. “And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”
In that same interview, Trump was asked to explain why he called for Obama to resign in light of the shooting and he answered, in part: “He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other and either one is unacceptable.”
or months, Trump has slyly suggested that the president is not Christian and has questioned his compassion toward Muslims. Years ago, Trump was a major force in calls for the president to release his birth certificate and prove that he was born in the United States. On the campaign trail, Trump has repeatedly stated as fact conspiracy theories about the president, his rivals and Muslims, often refusing to back down from his assertions even when they are proven to be false.
During an appearance on the “Today” show later Monday morning, Savannah Guthrie pushed Trump to explain what he meant in the earlier interview.
“Well there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it,” Trump said. “A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn’t know what he’s doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. He doesn’t want to see what’s really happening. And that could be.”
Guthrie asked Trump why that would be, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee responded: “Because Savannah, Savannah, why isn’t he addressing the issue? He’s not addressing the issue. He’s not calling it what it is. This is radical Islamic terrorism. This isn’t fighting Germany; this isn’t fighting Japan, where they wear uniforms.”[…]
Trump has repeatedly taken credit for having been “right” on issues of terror, and on Monday he continued to face scrutiny for a tweet he posted on Sunday that read: “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!”
“I’m getting thousands of letters and tweets that I was right about the whole situation,” Trump said on Fox News. “I mean, I’ve been right about a lot of things, frankly… I was right about many, many things.”
I’ve never hated him more.
This is demented, taking things way beyond anything we’ve seen before in a presidential candidate. Bush and Cheney were malevolent warmongers who set the table for torture and perpetual war. This is a straight-up madman. Saying this, at a time like like, is so sick I can’t quite wrap my mind around it. He’s suggesting that President Obama is a terrorist sympathizer.
Let’s hope that the majority (the vast majority) of Americans have enough common sense to see this for what it is.
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