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The White House will not officially comment on the bombing of a Minnesota mosque because it may be a hate crime faked by a liberal, according to Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka. An as-of-yet unidentified individual threw a makeshift bomb through the window of a mosque in Minnesota Saturday, and Gorka was asked on MSNBC Monday if the White House will comment. Gorka said that the White House will “absolutely” comment once there is a finalized investigation into the incident.

“There’s a great rule: All initial reports are false,” Gorka said. “You have to check them and find out who the perpetrators are. We’ve had a series of crimes committed, alleged hate crimes by right wing individuals in the last six months that turned out to be prop propagated by the left. Let’s allow the local authorities to provide their assessment and then the White House will make its comments.”

But Trump has, in the past, commented on attacks without full information, including a recent June attack in the Philippines, which may have been a robbery gone wrong. He has not been so fast to cry terrorism after the Minnesota bombing, despite the fact that Minnesota’s governor called the attack terrorism.

White House defends silence on mosque bombing, says it might have been faked by liberals – ThinkProgress

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At a White House press briefing Wednesday, senior Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller belittled the sonnet inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, delighting white nationalists who have frequently disparaged the poem. But that wasn’t the only insult with a racial subtext Miller used during the briefing.

When CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta challenged Miller on the administration’s new immigration policy, which favors English-speaking immigrants, Miller quickly snapped and pointed a finger at what he called Acosta’s “cosmopolitan bias.”

Miller’s use of the word “cosmopolitan” was shocking to many, given the word’s ugly, racist, anti-Semitic past. Politico, in a piece detailing the history of the word “cosmopolitan,” called the term the more sinister cousin to the word “elitist.” Soviet dictator Josef Stalin used the epithet in a 1946 speech deriding “all things foreign and cosmopolitan,” as part of a cultural crusade against the “western bourgeoisie,” which largely consisted of writers, theatre critics, and scientists, many of whom were Jewish.

White nationalist groups have also adopted the term “cosmopolitan” into their lexicon to attack those they see as “globalists.” The word is frequently used across white nationalist websites and forums like Stormfront, which has its own section on the philosophy page devoted to the idea of “cosmopolitanism.”

Stephen Miller’s strange insult of a reporter is very familiar to white supremacists – ThinkProgress

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A 32-year-old woman is dead and multiple other people were injured after a driver plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville on Saturday afternoon, Police Chief Al Thomas said. Two Virginia state police officers were also killed in a helicopter crash outside Charlottesville. Officials said the deaths were connected to the rally, but they did not clarify how.

Car hits counter-protesters Charlottesville white nationalist rally - Business Insider

Let's see shall we:

• Nazi's (you know, something a whole generation of Americans fought on foreign lands) demonstrate but the President fails to condemn the demonstration
  
• Violence irrupts, but the President blames "all sides," drawing a moral equivalent between Nazi's and people who oppose them
  
• A car ploughs into a crowd of counter-demonstrators, but the President fails to even mention it, treating the victims as if this was a garden variety of traffic incident.
  
• He only mentions the dead police.
  
• Then he went on to tout the record unemployment (because "so much is going right at the moment in the US"), figures he denounced as completely phony and manipulated only half a year ago. Amazing stuff.
  

A productive day for the Nazi's, it seems. The President has their back. Not for the first time. Apparently terrorists are only "Radical Islam" and Nazi's isn't even a hate ideology, let alone a terrorist threat.

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White nationalists and neo-Nazis celebrated President Donald Trump's remarks about the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday, in which he denounced violence "on all sides" rather than explicitly condemning white supremacism. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides," Trump said at a press conference. "On many sides."  Trump said that he had spoken to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, and that they "agreed that the hate and the division must stop and must stop right now."  The president went on to talk about how the US is "doing very well in so many ways," and touted the recent jobs and unemployment numbers.


Several prominent white nationalists and neo-Nazis, however, praised Trump's comments. The founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist website that considers itself a part of the alt-right, celebrated the fact that Trump "outright refused to disavow" the white nationalist rally and movement. "People saying he cucked are shills and kikes," wrote the founder, Andrew Anglin. "He did the opposite of cuck. He refused to even mention anything to do with us. When reporters were screaming at him about White Nationalism he just walked out of the room."

"Cuck" is short for "cuckservative" — a portmanteau of "cuckold" and "conservative" used by the alt-right to describe white Republicans "who are participating in the displacement of European Americans," according to white nationalist Richard Spencer. When Trump tweeted earlier on Saturday that "we ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for," Spencer, who attended both days of protests, replied: "Did Trump just denounce antifa?" Antifa is short for antifascist organizations.

Neo-nazis celebrate Trump's remarks about Charlottesville riots - Business Insider

As we said before, those very same unemployment number he called bogus and doctored half a year ago..

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GOP strategist Ana Navarro said on Monday that Trump blew his opportunity to unite the country after the deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, saying that she believes he is “unfit to be human” for not explicitly condemning white supremacists immediately after the attack. “He’s not only unfit to be president,” she said on CNN. “In my book, his lack of leadership, his lack of empathy, his lack of courage — he’s unfit to be human.” A vocal Republican critic of the president, Navarro said that Trump has made her “cringe” many times, but the president's delayed denunciation of white supremacist groups had made her more "ashamed" than ever.

GOP strategist Navarro: Trump is ‘unfit to be a human’ | TheHill

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) on Sunday ramped up his pressure on President Trump to call white supremacists out by name, saying they should not be a part of any political base.  "White nationalists, white supremacists, they're not a part of anybody's base. They're not a part of this country. They're a part of hatred, they're a part of evil, and we need to stand up to that," Gardner told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" during a discussion of violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Republican senator: White nationalists can't be part of GOP base | TheHill

Donald Trump finally issued a direct condemnation of racism on Monday after criticism of his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one woman dead. On a brief visit to Washington, the president used an address from the White House to say: “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” The explicit remarks came after a storm of criticism – some from prominent figures in his own party – over his decision not to directly condemn the white supremacy groups that targeted Charlottesville, Virginia, at the weekend. But Trump stopped short of describing Saturday’s violence as an act of terrorism, as attorney general Jeff Sessions has done.

Trump finally condemns Charlottesville racism, days after violence | US news | The Guardian

So Trump was finally coerced into denouncing the Nazi's (really..) by just about everybody, even in his own party, but then this..

President Trump’s former ethics chief on Monday blasted him for considering pardoning controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying such an action would tell white supremacists he's on their side and undercut his claim to be against racism. Walter Shaub, who resigned as director of the United States Office of Government Ethics after clashes with Trump, hit Trump for saying he may pardon the sheriff who violated a federal order to stop racially profiling Latinos in his Arizona county.

Ex-ethics chief: Trump talk of pardoning Arpaio shows racists that he’s on their side | TheHill

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To watch the president of the United States prevaricate and dissemble in the face of white supremacist terror is and hopefully always will be shocking. But it’s hardly surprising. Donald Trump’s march to the Oval Office began with the charge that Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya, he catapulted to the top of the Republican pack with the charge that Mexican immigrants are predominantly rapists and murderers, and along the way he managed to espouse the view that a federal judge should be disqualified from a case on the basis of ethnicity. Trump embraces a politics of racial conflict because it works for him.

Rich CEOs are the big winners of Trump’s race war - Vox

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How about this for the right message, amazing..

On Tuesday morning, President Trump retweeted an image of “the Trump Train” striking a CNN journalist. He shared the image with his 36 million followers three days after an alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer ran over a woman during a white supremacist rally in Virginia, killing her.

Trump later undid his retweet, but the damage was done. Further, the account he promoted — @SLandinSoCal — has repeatedly posted racist content, including anti-Semitic propaganda from David Duke’s website

Trump shares violent meme from account that promoted racist propaganda from David Duke – ThinkProgress

Just amazing. One could argue it's no longer just the White House, but the White Supremacists House..

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That forced take-down of racism always looked like a visit to the dentist. Back to his old self..

In a heated press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, the president challenged a reporter to "define the alt-right" when she asked about a statement released by Sen. John McCain in which he connected attacks on National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to the white nationalist movement.

Trump told reporters during the press conference that he thinks "there is blame on both sides" for the violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, doubling down on controversial comments he made in the hours after a 32-year-old counterprotester was run over by an alleged neo-Nazi. "Sen. McCain said that the alt-right is behind these attacks," the reporter said. "He linked that same group to those that participated in that [car] attack in Charlottesville."

"Define alt-right to me," Trump replied, pointing to the reporter. "You define it. Define it for me. Come on. Let's go."
"What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right?" Trump continued, talking over the reporter. "Do they have any semblance of guilt?"

Trump challenges reporter to 'define the alt-right' - Business Insider

Actually it's no surprise. We already know the President is a racist. "Mexicans are rapist" etc.

He hasn't even called that car attack terrorism, which he would have if it had been a Muslim driving in 5 seconds flat.

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In case you had any doubts, from the dark underworld nothing but praise for the President...

But several far-right, pro-Trump figures were quick to praise his comments. "Declare  # AltLeft  AntiFa a domestic terrorist organization!" tweeted Jack Posobiec, a prominent conspiracy theorist and alt-right agitator. Posobiec praised Trump's remarks, saying the president was "making it rain red pills" — a prolific alt-right symbol of knowledge and wisdom that stems from the plot of The Matrix. 

"We are in an ideological civil war with occasional real world attacks by leftist radicals," tweeted John Cardillo, a right-wing radio host with anti-globalist and anti-immigrant views. "Americans must wake up to that reality." "EPIC! Trump Blasts # FakeNews Media and Alt-Left Thugs At Trump Tower Presser," tweeted Jim Hoft, a far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and blogger.

"I have never ever been so pleased with a politician," tweeted Cassandra Fairbanks, an alt-right Trump supporter who writes for the Russian news outlet Sputnik. "He just verbally beat their asses while telling the truth." "'Define alt right. Define it for me. What about the alt-left?' I can't handle how much I adore him," Fairbanks said.

Trump challenges reporter to 'define the alt-right' - Business Insider

Trump, who hadn’t advised the press he would be taking any questions, espoused the same “both sides” rhetoric he did during his initial statement on Saturday, while also stating there were some “very fine people” among the neo-Nazi protesters. White nationalists, empowered by his message, took to the web to celebrate.

Many posted their thoughts on a social media site called Gab, nicknamed the “Twitter for the alt-right.”
“THIS is more like it!” one user wrote. Wrote another, “Trump came through for us.”

White nationalists celebrate Trump press conference: ‘I was fist pumping!!’ – ThinkProgress

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Former Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director Douglas Heye said Tuesday he doesn't know how he could tell any minority to vote for a GOP candidate following President Trump's press briefing comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend. "After that Trump press conference, I don't know how I can tell any minority why they should vote Republican," Heye said.  "I've asked the press offices at both the White House & RNC to remove me from their email lists," he added.

Ex-RNC spokesman: After Trump briefing how can I tell minorities to vote GOP | TheHill

The Trump administration’s decision to cut federal funding for groups fighting right-wing violence has come under new scrutiny following the president's controversial response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.

Trump cuts funds to fight anti-right wing violence | TheHill

Rupert Murdoch, the acting CEO of Fox News, reportedly advised President Trump to fire his chief strategist, former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon. The New York Times on Monday reported that Murdoch pushed Trump to oust Bannon during a recent White House dinner.

Rupert Murdoch urged Trump to fire Bannon: report | TheHill