Oh, good.
Sarah Sanders does identify hateful speech.
Knock off the extreme vetting mess. The Oval Office FIRST needs to learn some manners.
There is every reason to believe the attack stance of President Trump has contributed to the agitation of those so inclined. Trump doesn't have a sterile office whereby his employees are the only people willing to kiss the ring. He is supposed to be a leader that recognizes all the people within the borders of the USA as important people. When he attacks minority religions by banning arrivals of their members after standard security clearance, there will be repercussions.
The violence within the borders of the USA has escalated this year and this is just another one. The attacker yesterday in New York City isn't very different than the Las Vegas killer, they wanted to kill people. I might add the police in both instances shut down the killers within a very short period of time. The police are as good as they come. Now, it is time for Trump to support them by maintaining domestic peace without fomenting hate.
May 1, 2017
By Michael Gerson
For those who claim that Donald Trump (click here) has been pasteurized and homogenized by the presidency, his sour, 100th-day speech in Harrisburg, Pa., was inconvenient.
Trump used his high office to pursue divisive grudges (Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is a “bad leader”), to attack the media (composed of “incompetent, dishonest people”) and to savage congressional Democrats (“they don’t mind drugs pouring in”). Most of all, Trump used his bully pulpit quite literally, devoting about half his speech to the dehumanization of migrants and refugees as criminals, infiltrators and terrorists. Trump gained a kind of perverse energy from the rolling waves of hatred, culminating in the reading of racist song lyrics comparing his targets to vermin. It was a speech with all the logic, elevation and public purpose of a stink bomb....
