Former President Donald Trump spoke briefly at a political rally about the racist shootings in Buffalo that killed 10 people, then immediately moved to Afghanistan, where he falsely said no lives were lost.
Many details were likely confirmed Saturday when Trump commented on the violence in Buffalo in Austin, Texas. But he clearly knew that “many people” had been killed and did not express grief and sympathy.
“I think they had a tragic event in Buffalo … a tragic event in Buffalo, a lot of people died,” he told the crowd. He immediately added: “We have not lost anyone in Afghanistan in 18 months,” which is not true.
Trump: I think they had a tragic event in Buffalo. A tragic accident in which many people died in Buffalo. We have not lost anyone in Afghanistan in 18 months. pic.twitter.com/U9LcgLsVAY
– Acyn (@Acyn) May 14, 2022
It is strange to compare the crime of homicide in the family to the war zone. Trump also lied about the number of deaths in Afghanistan. According to Pentagon statistics, there was no 18 -month period during the Trump administration in which no American lives took place. In the last year of Trump’s rule, 22 U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan.
Congressman Ted Lee (California) condemned Trump’s comparison of Afghanistan and Buffalo as “ridiculous” and his denial of the deaths of U.S. troops as “disrespectful”.
This is a ridiculous comparison from the former president. Furthermore, Trump is a liar and disrespects the 64 valiant American soldiers who died under his administration in Afghanistan, ignoring their deaths in his statement: 11 in 2020; 24 in 2019; In 2018 14; 15 in 2017. https://t.co/yDB3zgJBa3 https://t.co/P3W7IlUark
-Ted Lee (@tedlieu) May 15, 2022
Trump may have been embarrassed to discuss the shootings, given his story of a racist “grand substitute theory” adopted by the accused to kill, according to his online letters. The theory is that white Americans are at risk of being replaced by people of color because of immigration, racial marriage and, ultimately, violence.
Trump described white supremacists who embraced this theory and marched on Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 as “very good people.” They sang “The Jews will not replace us” and “You will not replace us” as they marched.
One of them, self-proclaimed white nationalist James Alex Fields, killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer when she accidentally crashed her car into a crowd of protesters that day.
Tucker Carlson, a leading Trump channel on Fox News, was named by MSNBC a week ago. “No. 1 champion” In the cruel racist theory.
Source: Huffpost
