Subj : What happened?
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Tue Aug 13 2019 03:24 am

Hello Dale,

continued from last message -

>>Continue through almost all of his campaign rallies, before and after
>>election when he touted the theme of invasion from the south by Mexicans
>>and other hispanics, calling them rapists and murderers.
>
>LL>How does that make him a white supremacist?  Just because those
>LL>rapists and murderers happen to be black or brown does not necessarily
>LL>make him a white supremacist.  I mean, I am sure he condemns the acts
>LL>of all rapists and murderers, regardless of the color of their skin.
>LL>Just like that white dude who killed eight Mexicans in El Paso.
>
>Did he condemn the acts of either the Dayton or El Paso shooters?  I
>might have missed it, but certainly have not heard such language coming
>from him.  He did read a teleprompter speech without any affect.  It was
>clear that he did not write it.  Nor did it look as if he really
>believed what he was told he should say.

He claimed they were mentally ill.  Without citing any evidence
to support or substantiate his claim.

>LL>No president can control the acts of others.  And certainly not that
>LL>of a single individual who is probably insane.
>
>Hardly any of the mass shooters would ever have been diagnosed as being
>insane.

Insanity is a legal term/defense.  Did the shooter know the difference
between right and wrong at the time he committed the act?  It was shown
that John Hinckley was mentally ill when he did his thing, but in that
case nobody was killed.  I doubt the verdict would have been the same
had any of his intended targets died.

>LL>Again, how does that make Donald Trump a white supremacist?  While
>LL>he is clearly playing to a crowd, that does not mean he is hoping any
>LL>of them go off the rails and conduct mass shootings of black and brown
>LL>people.
>
>Try playing a video clip of him in a Florida rally.  Paraphrasing, He
>asks "what can we do about this invasion".  Someone in the crowd shouts
>"shoot them". He laughs and says "well you could probably get away with
>that in the panhandle".  That certainly does not sound like he is
>discouraging the acts of one such as the El Paso shooter.

The next day, he said he did not like it.  He also said he very quick
in his response.  Which, in a way, would be honest, given it took him
two whole days to give a response to the shootings in El Paso.  I mean,
he was busy playing golf in New Jersey at the time ...

>Then there is "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with
>it".

Of course he can.  He is the POTUS.

True story -

President Nixon attended the funeral of US Senator Allen Ellender.
Just outside the steps of the cathedral, the local justice of the peace
walked up to him, hand extended, wanting to shake his hand.  Nixon's
face turned ashen, thinking the idiot was going to shoot him.  I was
there, along with some of my cousins, and saw the whole thing right
before my eyes.  Unfortunately, this was before we entered the digital
age, and we did not have youtube at the time.  To make a long story
short, we all thought the headlines in the next day's newspaper would
be "Local Cajun Dies Shaking President's Hand".

The novel "The Man", by Irving Wallace, was written on what could
happen in such a situation.  The novel was written in 1964, before the
25th Amendment, and was a national best-seller at the time.  In 1972,
the novel was adapted as a political drama screenplay by Rod Serling,
directed by Joseph Sargent, and featuring James Earl Jones as President
Douglas Dilman, the first black POTUS.

This event (the Ellender funeral) also changed policy.  The president
and vice president very rarely are seen together at the same place, or
next to each other at an event.

--Lee

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