I read the Reid statement on the election of Donald Trump. Senator
Harry Reid wrote a scathing diatribe against the President-elect. It was issued
as a press release on reid.senate.gov.
He said that “innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with
fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT
Americans and Asian Americans. Their fear
is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing
terrible things to them.”
That is a totally false statement. I have watched many complete Trump
rallies and speeches and I have never heard Mr. Trump “talk openly about doing
terrible things” to anybody. Mr. Reid’s statement is outrageous and false.
I doubt that Harry Reid has ever listened to even one complete Trump
speech.
I can’t believe a United States Senate majority leader would
write anything so false and incendiary. He wrote this while anti-Trump protests
were occurring all over the country. His words were not words of calm or
reason. He metaphorically handed gasoline to those who are ready to spread unreasonable
fires of hate because their candidate lost.
He wrote words that would incite more violence while violence
was occurring.
Reid called Trump “a sexual predator who fueled his campaign
with bigotry and hate.” Again, this statement is totally false and ridiculous
and is simply not true. Millions of Americans disagree with Reid.
Harry Reid needs to apologize to Donald Trump and his
supporters. He needs to retract his statement and take it off of his government
website.
He had to apologize once before, to President Obama and many
prominent African-American leaders.
In 2008, he called Obama “a light-skinned African American with
no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
In 2010, Reid offered apologies to President Obama and several
prominent African-Americans, including House Democrats Jim Clyburn of South
Carolina and Barbara Lee of California; the Rev. Al Sharpton; CNN political
contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; NAACP chairman Julian
Bond; and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Wade
Henderson.
He said "I sincerely apologize for offending any and all
Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”
He admitted that his racial comments about Obama were “improper”.
Will he admit that he made outrageous and untrue statements about Trump? He did
more than just make an insensitive racial comment. He slandered the
President-elect using vicious irresponsible language that might incite riots
and forever change the future of our country.
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