On 10/19/2018 12:47 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/19/18 12:41 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/19/2018 12:38 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/19/18 12:26 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/19/2018 10:46 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
MISSOULA, Mont. — Donald Trump praised a Republican candidate’s
assault last year on a reporter and fumed over his Democratic
opponents here on Thursday night in a freewheeling rally meant to
mobilize his base’s support in the coming midterm elections.

In urging the crowd to vote for Representative Greg Gianforte, who
is running for re-election and who was sentenced to anger
management classes and community service for assaulting a reporter
last spring, Mr. Trump jokingly warned the crowd to “never wrestle
him.”

“I had heard he body-slammed a reporter,” Mr. Trump said, noting
that he was initially concerned that Mr. Gianforte would lose in a
special election last May. “I said, ‘Wait a minute. I know Montana
pretty well; I think it might help him.’ And it did.”

“Anybody that can do a body-slam,” the president added, “that’s my
kind of guy.”

Mr. Trump made no mention at the rally of Jamal Khashoggi, a
dissident Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post,
who disappeared this month after visiting the Saudi Consulate in
Istanbul. United States intelligence officials say Mr. Khashoggi
was most likely killed by Saudi officials.

The Guardian U.S., which employs the reporter whom Mr. Gianforte
body-slammed, issued a statement on Thursday night after Mr. Trump
finished speaking.

“To celebrate an attack on a journalist who was simply doing his
job is an attack on the First Amendment by someone who has taken an
oath to defend it,” said John Mulholland, the editor of The
Guardian U.S. “In the aftermath of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi,
it runs the risk of inviting other assaults on journalists both
here and across the world where they often face far greater threats.”

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Puke.




So now the Dems are trying to make a scandal out of campaign humor.

They are all over MSNBC today comparing Trump's humorous comments
about a "body slam" to the death and hacking up of the journalist in
Saudi Arabia.

Oh wait ... they claim they are "journalists" also.

There's nothing funny about physical beatings.


Whhhaaaaa

It's just another example of why your boy Trump is unsuitable for
political office.


He was making a ****ing joke Harry. Get over it. The "assault" by
Gianforte was wrong and he later made a lengthy apology plus raised
over $50K for a fund to "protect journalists. The journalist
was not injured, does not have long lasting trauma and maybe learned
something himself. Today's "journalists" can be very aggressive and
"in your face". If you listen to the audio of the altercation it
certainly sounds like that was going on and Gianforte, being human, lost
it.

You can't compare it (although your party *is* trying to) to being
murdered, hacked in pieces and scattered somewhere.

Trump wasn't talking about that. You Dems are ready to jump on
*anything*.