This week potentially explosive devices were sent to the home of liberal financier George Soros, former president Barack Obama's office in Washington D.C., to the Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York, and to the Florida office of former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
In a statement, Wasserman Schultz wrote:
"Today is one of those times where leadership from the President of the United States is crucial," wrote Bill Palmer today. "Unfortunately, we were just reminded that the United States has no President."
The reason Bill Palmer wrote that, is because this was Trump's first response to this weeks news of possible explosives being sent to prominent American figures:
It wasn't even a tweet, it was a fucking retweet by his Vice President.
Bill Palmer went on to write:
Just days ago, Donald Trump used a political rally to praise GOP Congressman and convicted criminal Greg Gianforte for having violently attacked a reporter. Today, Trump was among the last major U.S. politicians to step up and condemn these bombings, and even then, he merely retweeted Mike Pence and stated that he agreed with it. Trump did give a speech on television just now, generically condemning the attack, but refusing to address his own role in promoting violent rhetoric.
Alexander Soros, son of George Soros wrote:
We must find our way to a new political discourse that shuns the demonization of all political opponents. A first step would be to cast our ballots to reject those politicians cynically responsible for undermining the institutions of our democracy. And we must do it now, before it is too late.
Adding:
With Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, things got worse. White supremacists and antisemites like David Duke endorsed his campaign. Mr Trump’s final TV ad famously featured my father; Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve; and Lloyd Blankfein, chairman of Goldman Sachs – all of them Jewish – amid dog-whistle language about ‘special interests’ and ‘global special interests.’
“A genie was let out of the bottle, which may take generations to put back in, and it wasn’t confined to the United States,” writes Alexander.
Alexander is likely right, but we know that the effort to put the genie back in the bottle will not be led by the current President of the United States, nor the Republican Party.
After all, this is what Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted about Hondurans trying to make it to America just a week ago, which included him pondering if Alexander's dad was in fact helping them:
Donald Trump will not acknowledge the things he has said in the past, nor in the last week. He lacks the ability to be introspective, or have the emotions of one who is capable of feeling any kind of remorse. And by and large the same goes for the Republican Party.
In fact, the odds are likely in favor of him saying more inflammatory rhetoric at his next rallies, than say we need to come together. It only took him hours to say that already, and he has some hours to go between his statements and his next rally.
The fact that he isn't going to postpone rallies is enough to show you that he really doesn't care all that much. If you had to bet on whether he is going to be partisan or not, you would bet that he will be.
At best, he'll say we need to come together and make sure Honduras fleeing violence and poverty do not make its way to America, but expect those borderless wanting Democrats aren't going to do anything to help.
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