It depends if we’re talking about language used specifically by Trump surrogate McEnany, or about what’s being said generally by those who oppose Clinton (either Clinton, I suppose) with regard to the “enabler” line of attack.
For the first, we’d need all of McEnany’s publicly-available statements which use the “enabler” attack. And quite candidly, I’m not interested enough in McEnany to try to dig those up.
My impression is that the “enabler” attack has been used most frequently in connection with Monica Lewinsky, who was a willing participant. If that’s the case then your demur about infidelity (as being less relevant) may not be appropriate. But it’s all rather fuzzy until we get data. For example, a research project could gather all uses of the term “enabler” that appear within (say) 30 words of the use of either “Hillary” or “Clinton” in any printed or recorded media between June 30 2015 and June 30 2016. Then we could look at all those instances and categorize them by whether they also contain references to infidelity or to those with whom WJC has admitted to infidelity, as opposed to references to rape and/or harassment or to those who have allegedly been raped or harassed.
We’d really need the data to have reasonable certainty. But as I’ve said, my impression is that “enabler” has been used by anti-Clinton speakers and writers mainly in connection with infidelity.
Sorry if it’s been covered, but why can’t they trace the retweet back to an original tweet? It had to have a chain of custody that’s on record. Has anyone tried to explain this from Trumps side?
Yes, they found it. But how did they find it? Where did they find it? Why does the Trump campaign seem to keep intersecting with known racist organizations? Even if Trump doesn’t think of himself as a racist, isn’t he, at minimum, a tad insensitive?
The answer is to not do business that way and maybe get your own graphics team, but I think Donald wants to get his votes on the cheap because he was born for that. You don’t have to pay for suckers.
He should be demanded to give the sites name and let people make up their own minds about why this keeps happening.
I consider myself reasonably well educated, but had you shown me that tweet and asked me what was wrong with it, I could have spent weeks and never come up with a Star of David.
As others have said, when has Trump even hinted at any sort of animus towards Jewish people? I think the whole thing plays into his “This country has gone off the deep end with political correctness” line.
See post #63, and also check the ones I made about his past racist posts from sources that were also anti-semite, you missed many posts reporting that the antisemitism was shown before by Trump and this latest tweet came also from racist and antisemite sources.
It did not help also that Trump in his correction from the star of David to the circle one that Trump mentioned again his “America First” slogan that has also anti-semitic undertones.
Again, if items like this had happened only once Trump would get the benefit of the doubt. No more after so many strikes.
Ok, but I’m guessing you didn’t grow up in the NY tri-state area. And like most decent people you haven’t brushed up against virulent anti-semitism. The image was created by an anti-semite and I’ve seen that sort of imagery before.
Yeah, see post 63. And 85.
Trump is a sales guy. A lot of his most fervent followers are white supremacists. They are not particularly fond of Jews and don’t show reluctance to vocalize that. Josh Marshall: [INDENT][INDENT] One of the most telling things Trump has said during this campaign is that he doesn’t go into rallies with any script or even terribly prepared sense of what he’s going to say. He starts talking and then waits to get a feel for what the audience responds to. In other words, he homes in on affirmation.
…In the case of Jews, I think Trump is an anti-Semite in the sense of believing in stereotypes of Jews - there’s quite a bit of evidence of this. But I don’t think he has a standing hostility for Jews. It just happens to be that the white nationalists and alt-right racists he’s bonded with so deeply are virtually all also anti-Semites. So that’s just another part of the milieu, the pool of hate filth he’s swimming in.
…Perhaps I’m naive and Trump is very tactical about all of this. But I very much doubt it. That would be inconsistent with everything I’ve observed about the man. One might say, with tongue very much in cheek, “Jews have nothing to worry about. Trump’s not an anti-Semite. He’s just very deeply steeped in the neo-Nazi subculture. So these things slip in some time.” [/INDENT][/INDENT] Understanding the Trump/Star of David Blow Up - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A major party presidential candidate somehow finds an image from an anti-semitic group containing anti-semitic images and broadcasts it, and you don’t find that at least a bit disturbing?
But then he refuses to admit it, and condemn it? He makes loony excuses?
That’s the issue. Even if Trump doesn’t hate Jews, he won’t condemn those who do. And it’s not the first time. It’s incredibly irresponsible to say the least.
Somewhere in the basement of Trump’s campaign headquarters lies a pallet of cardboard boxes, one of which was torn open to reveal tightly-packed stacks of red baseball caps embroidered with
MAKE AMERICA
GRATE AGIN
and somewhere else is a hat vendor left with an unpaid invoice, who made the grave mistake of following directions.
FYI - Law enforcement, police, sheriff, and deputy badges can be had in 5, 6, and 7 point configurations. A six pointed star does not automatically indicate, or suggest, a Star of David. Unless people are looking for something to whine about during an election.
First sentence is true enough. Second, not so much. They copied the tweet from a white supremacist site, and the anti-Semite message was very much intended. He could have avoided the whole mess by hiring staff who can do their own research and create their own graphics and not act like our Reich wing Facebook friends and simply forward memes they agree with…
Actually, there’s a pizza place by me that might be interested in purchasing those at a discount-- their sign out front currently reads “Ban shredded cheese-- Make America grate again!”
If someone were simply adding a cut and paste graphic to a tweet, most likely he would have picked the “default” configuration most easily recognized as a “star”: five points, with one point directly upward. To choose another is a deliberate act. And why was it placed against a field of money?
I am perfectly willing to accept that the original design was intended to insinuate some sort of Jewish influence that the “staffer” did not actually recognize. Stupid, tone-deaf, but not necessarily malicious. And I don’t think Trump hates Jewish people, he simply operates under unexamined stereotypes like “You guys are great negotiators!” A more benign form, like poison ivy compared to skin cancer.