So, your link admits that Trump lied? And where is the documentation that Trump saw it? Where is the video?
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates Donald Trump is taking heat on social media for a Sunday afternoon tweet of statistics purporting to show that the vast majority of murdered black people in the U.S. are killed by other black people. The tweet was apparently Trump’s response to a Twitter thread about support from white supremacists for the GOP front-runner. It also comes the day after a Black Lives Matter protester said he was physically and verbally assaulted at a Trump rally. The image Trump posted includes a list of “USA Crime Statistics ~ 2015.” The two that are highlighted are “Blacks Killed by Police ~~ 1%” and “Blacks Killed by Blacks ~~ 97%.” A drawing of a black man wielding a sideways pistol and wearing army pants, military boots and a bandana and mask accompanies the statistics, which are sourced to the “Crime Statistics Bureau” in San Francisco. The message immediately took off on the social media platform, with thousands of people retweeting it and liking it within an hour. But many also lashed out angrily against the real estate mogul, calling Trump a racist and questioning the veracity of the stats. Indeed, an initial search to confirm the numbers couldn’t turn up a “Crime Statistic Bureau” in San Francisco. However, the percentages do, in some ways, align with Department of Justice (DOJ) findings from several years ago. A DOJ study released in 2011 reported that 93 percent of black homicides were committed by other blacks between 1980 and 2008. In 2014, that figure was roughly 90 percent in 2014, according to the latest DOJ numbers. The category tweeted out by Trump that doesn't jive with DOJ statistics is “Whites Killed by Whites,” which Trump’s tweet indicated was 16 percent. According to the department’s 2011 report, 84 percent of white homicides were committed by whites between 1980 and 2008. That number was 82 percent in 2014. Trump has been roundly bashed during his presidential campaign for disparaging comments made about Mexican immigrants, Syrian refugees, Muslims and black people. The candidate didn’t step away from any of his recent remarks during a Fox News appearance Sunday morning, even suggesting that the Black Lives Matter protester deserved to be assaulted. "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,” he said. http://thehill.com/homenews/preside...takes-heat-for-tweet-about-black-murder-rates
They were alleged and no one could confirm those words were said. Even all the video didn't have any proof these things were said. Regardless, the dude is a criminal and decided to show up at an event to start trouble. It looks like he found it. I hope he gets jail time for endangering the lives of innocent people.
Of course! I mean not like lying of Hillary saying things like "I was receiving sniper fire". Or "Benghazi attacks were caused by a YouTube video"
No, he was trolling you liberals. I think it worked by retweeting something very close to being accurate.
In other news... Trump is leading by double digits in every poll, even ones where the sample size is small and can be weighted against Trump. Remember the Carson fiasco then calling Iowans stupid and how this was supposed to end Trump in Iowa? Yeah, he took a 10 point lead and Carson dipped by 8 points.
Not sure I see the parallel you are drawing there. So Trump posts an inaccurate race baiting tweet, and then can say foolsies! just trolling... When did Obama do that?
Yes. He said that the republican party are becoming a recruitment tool for ISIS, which is 100% false. ISIS was recruited long before the Republican rhetoric.
No, you stretch the meaning of basic beyond reason. It has nothing to do with black or white. When you crash an event with the intent to disrupt, with an out of place display, often suggests ass kicking needed. Throwing a black cover over the transgression doesn't make it acceptable.
Carson backs off support of Trump's controversial claim US Muslims cheered on 9/11 Ben Carson on Monday backed off his initial support for Donald Trump’s controversial claim that American Muslims were cheering in New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center fell, as the assertion was decried elsewhere as untrue. Carson was asked about Trump’s comments at a press conference Monday in Nevada. Asked if he’d seen the footage Trump first referenced over the weekend, Carson responded that he had. “I saw the film of it,” he said, adding that he saw it in “newsreels.” Asked to expand, the Republican presidential candidate said: “There are going to be people who respond inappropriately to virtually everything. I think that was an inappropriate response. I don’t know if on the basis of that you can say that all Muslims are bad people. I really think that would be a stretch.” But hours after spearking to reporters, Carson's campaign changed its position in an interview with ABC News. "He doesn't stand behind his comments to New Jersey and American Muslims," campaign spokesman Doug Watts told ABC. "He was rather thinking of the protests going on in the Middle East and some of the demonstrations that were going on in celebration of the towers going down. "He doesn't stand behind his references and apologizes for the mistaken references. It was a mistake on his part and he clearly wasn't really thinking about New Jersey, he was thinking about the Middle East." Trump, however, wasn’t backing down on his claim that he saw “thousands” cheering in Jersey City, even as the city's mayor said the front-running Republican presidential hopeful has "memory issues, or willfully distorts the truth." Trump first told the story Saturday at a rally in Birmingham, Ala., as he pressed the need for greater surveillance, including monitoring certain mosques, in the wake of the Paris attacks. "I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down," Trump said. Trump repeated the claim Sunday in an interview on ABC's "This Week" after host George Stephanopoulos explained that police had refuted any such rumors at the time. "It did happen. I saw it," said Trump. "It was on television. I saw it." "There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down," he said. "I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it," he added, "but there were people cheering as that building came down, as those buildings came down. And that tells you something." In a statement, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop criticized Trump for his remarks. "Trump is plain wrong, and he is shamefully politicizing an emotionally charged issue," said Fulop. "No one in Jersey City cheered on September 11th. We were actually among the first to provide responders to help in lower Manhattan." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...oversial-claim-us-muslims-cheered-on-911.html
Not sure I would want Carson to back me up when he just claimed that Thomas Jefferson wrote the constitution.
