June 16th 2015 Trump announced his candidacy for president he said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
I was watching it live and my first thought was, "This wicked sonofabitch" and shook my head thinking, naively, that Republicans would repudiate him for saying such a thing. At fist they did but then they stopped because the truth of the matter is they are also White Nationalists and they have made that clear as a bell in the consequent years. The rise of White Supremacist group can be tied directly to Trump and all Republicans. Don't forget that Trump is a birther. Putting aside the issues one could have with the disaster of a presidency that was Obama this whole deal where he was not born here thus making him ineligible for holding that office is rooted in racism.
President bone spur. Ever wonder where that came from? July 18, 2015 – Donald Trump insulted the military service of Senator John McCain, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who endured torture and solitary confinement as a POW in Hanoi. Trump said, "He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Trump’s comments drew boos from his audience in Iowa, as well as widespread condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike. Donald Trump himself was exempted from military service after receiving four student deferments between 1964 and 1968, and a medical deferment for a “bone spur in his foot” after graduating from college.
August 19, 2015 – In August of 2015, just three months after Trump announced his candidacy for president, two of his supporters in Boston beat a homeless Latino man with a metal pipe, and then urinated on him. Asked by the arresting officer why they had done it, one of the attackers said, “Trump was right—all these illegals need to be deported.” During a press conference shortly thereafter, Trump said he hadn’t heard about the assault. “It would be a shame,” he told the crowd of reporters, before continuing, “I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
October 7, 2016 – Donald Trump reiterated his false claim that the young men known as the “Central Park Five” were guilty of sexually assaulting a jogger in 1989, despite DNA evidence that exonerated them.
January 10, 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Donald Trump approached him about leading an investigation into “Vaccine Safety.” The prospect that vaccination can lead to autism has been repeatedly debunked by long-running, peer-reviewed studies. Trump had supported the anti-vaccination theory on stage at the 2015 presidential debates. In September 2015 he publicly stated, “We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, two years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”
January 20, 2017 – Within hours of his inauguration, Donald Trump took aim at the Affordable Care Act in his first executive order as president. Following up on his campaign’s recurring promise to dismantle Obamacare, the order weakened the program by allowing states to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from or delay implementation of any provision or requirement” that would place a “fiscal burden” on the state.
January 21, 2016 – In his first conference as White House press secretary, Sean Spicer stated emphatically
that the gathering on the National Mall for Trump’s inaugural address,
“was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”
Photo evidence of Barack Obama’s first inauguration and subsequent crowd
analyses of Trump’s crowd proved this was untrue.
– January 22, 2017
– Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said that Sean Spicer’s
false statements about the crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration
were not lies, but “alternative facts.”
