‘Stop the words of hate,’ rabbi urges leaders after synagogue massacre. Trump keeps tweeting.
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PITTSBURGH — At the end of a weekend that redefined concepts of religious hatred in the United States, a grieving Rabbi Jeffrey Myers directly linked Saturday’s massacre at his Tree of Life synagogue to the rhetoric of U.S. politicians.
“ It starts with speech,” Myers said to loud applause at a Sunday-evening vigil attended by two U.S. senators. “It has to start with you as our leaders. My words are not intended as political fodder. I address all equally. Stop the words of hate.”
Two hours after the rabbi’s speech, President Trump absolved himself of responsibility and once again blamed others for the nation’s troubles.
“The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. “Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”
With that, a weekend that marked the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history ended.
Monday is expected to bring the first court appearance of suspected gunman Robert Bowers — an alleged anti-Semite who faces more than 50 homicide, assault and hate crime charges in the massacre.
The rest of the week will be marked by funerals for the 11 people killed inside Tree of Life, and very likely more debate over whether the aggressive political langue that has defined Trump’s presidency had any role in fueling the gunman’s radicalization.
On Monday, as Myers went on television and recounted the Saturday-morning horror (“I heard him execute my congregants,” the rabbi said of the shooter), Trump again took to Twitter to vent.
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Note - these words are NOT POLITICAL FODDER....STOP THE WORDS OF HATE.
I really don't care about anyone's partisan biases...the need to lay blame on a party in particular is juvenile. This Nation has some very serious issues and we are all going to feel the affects of this bullshit
All of our 'leaders' need to STFU....from the President to all of Congress. ENOUGH with the BLAME GAME.
About a week before this shooting, Louis Farrakhan compared Jews to termites . The Left and the mainstream media were not concerned.
Somehow Trump - who has a son-in-law and grandchildren who are Jewish, who moved our embassy to Jerusalem, who was the first sitting president to visit the Western Wall - that guy is somehow to blame for the slaughter of Jews?
The shooter actually was angry because Trump was surrounding himself with so many Jews. So don't tell me Trump made this guy feel empowered.
By the way, Rabbi Myers was on CNN. He refused to blame anyone else but the shooter and said the president is always welcome at his synagogue.
The last few days I keep hearing leftist pundits and politicians ask "how did we get to this place?" with no push back, of course. The answer is "we" haven't come to any place. We didn't send bombs in the mail or shoot up a synagogue. A couple of lunatics did. The other 320 million of us are doing just fine.
Put away the nostalgia over the last 10 or 20 or more years. We have had plenty of hate crimes, riots, and shootings over the years - including during the Obama years - and the media and the politicians didn't think it was because of presidential rhetoric. Suddenly maniacs aren't responsible for their own actions.
Well.....since we're splitting hairs, didn't you all on the right blame Bernie Sanders, antifa, and leftwing rhetoric on the Scalise shooting?
Dont every time there's a Muslim shooting, you all on the right blame Islam?
We are? What hair am I splitting? All I did was lay out a bunch of facts that undermine the narrative that Trump inspired this guy to kill jews.
I don't know. I can only speak for me. I don't remember saying or even thinking that. My view is that it's a lunatic who happens to support Bernie (because he's probably gotta support somebody). Anyone can support Bernie and be angry at Republicans. Only a madman goes out into the world to kill people over it.
Now, if Bernie had said, "go out into the world and shoot Republicans," then yeah, I would blame him some. That's how I can blame specific Democrats for some of the harassment we see. They are encouraging that specific act explicitly.
The only time I do that is when a muslim is killing people and he says its because something in the Q'uran compelled him to do it. Then its not my reasoning, but that of the killer. Unfortunately, that is often the case. I can't help that.
As the owl said in the Tootsie Pop commercial, "Let's find out",
Well, it seems that there are some on the Right who disagree with you.
Doesn't anyone see that this isn't about your partisan beliefs or need to point fingers?