kellyanne conway, one of the racist schlempe supporting the drumpf/trump-pence administration, again exposes her affinity for white supremacist via twitter. If she is as ignorant as she claims to be in her attempt to deny her own white nationalism and her relationship to these groups she should not be in the White House or any part of the government. As long as drumpf/trump-pence keep her part of their government they are endorsing and supporting her racism and white supremacist hate groups in America. This is followed by the infamous Skittles tweet by donald drumpf/trump jr. showing that apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. Both from +Mother Jones .....
Kellyanne Conway's White Nationalist Retweet Is No Mistake
The Trump administration's connection with far-right extremists continues.
Late Monday, coming off a long evening of responding to Gen. Mike Flynn's resignation as national security adviser, senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway found solace in a tweet from a user named Lib Hypocrisy:
Conway not only retweeted the message but also wrote, "Love you back," and wished her "Hapless Haters" a happy Valentine's Day.
But there was just one problem: Lib Hypocrisy is an explicit promoter of white nationalism and other bigotry. This is evident from the account's profile, which includes the hashtags "#WhiteIdentity" and "#Nationalist." It features a cartoon image connoting Pepe the Frog, the adopted mascot of the racist "alt-right" movement, and a shout-out to Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician who wants to shut down mosques.
These are some of Lib Hypocrisy's recent tweets and retweets:
Asked about her retweet of Lib Hypocisy by BuzzFeed on Tuesday, Conway implied that she hadn't been in control of her account at the time. She said she "obviously" had no idea who Lib Hypocrisy was, adding, "I denounce whoever it is." The tweets were soon deleted.
Conway's move continues a long-standing pattern of Trump and his inner circle engaging with white nationalists and then claiming ignorance when confronted about it—as Mother Jones documented in multiple investigations since last summer. Other such "mistakes" include:
- Trump failing to disavow support from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke when asked about it repeatedly on CNN, and then blaming a "bad earpiece."
- Trump appointing a white nationalist leader as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and then blaming a "database error" for the move.
- Trump tweeting an image of himself superimposed over a picture of WWII-era Waffen-SS soldiers, and then blaming a mistake by an intern.
- Gen. Michael Flynn sharing a #NeverHillary tweet that said, "Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore," and then claiming it was a mistake.
Those are just the cases in which Trump and his backers have backpedaled. There are many other similar instances in which they haven't even bothered to explain or apologize:
- Trump twice retweeting @WhiteGenocideTM
- Trump retweeting @EustaceFash, whose header image at the time also included the term "White Genocide."
- Trump tweeting an image of himself as Pepe the frog
- Trump tweeting an image of "Crooked Hillary" superimposed over a pile of cash and the Star of David
- Donald Trump Jr.'s infamous Skittles tweet
- Trump tweeting blatantly false and racially inflammatory crime statistics
The most charitable interpretation of this behavior is ineptitude. Regardless, the result is clear: According to one study of 10,000 Twitter accounts that followed Trump, more than a third also followed the account of at least one prominent booster of white nationalism—a movement now widely regarded as having a direct line into the Oval Office.
There Is So Much Wrong With Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles Tweet
Here's the full list.
On Monday evening, Donald Trump Jr. decided that it would be a good idea to compare Syrian refugees to Skittles.
This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first. #trump2016
Reactions to the tweet—including a fair amount of ridicule—were almost immediate. ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum's tweetstorm captures everything that's wrong with the analogy:
1. So we've done some calculations and we've fixed Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles analogy goo.gl/sgmRT0
2. Well let me revise that -- you can't fix it because refugees are people, not Skittles goo.gl/sgmRT0
3. But if you insist on comparing refugees to Skittles, know that America has taken in 784,000 refugees since 9/11 goo.gl/sgmRT0
4. 784,000 Skittles would not fit into a tiny bowl, they'd fill this entire refrigerator to the brim goo.gl/sgmRT0
6. No refugee taken in since 9/11 has committed a terrorist attack or killed an American goo.gl/sgmRT0pic.twitter.com/ln2TuOTGFZ
7. 5 refugees, 0.0006%, were charged w/terrorism crime. None were planning an attack on US. goo.gl/sgmRT0pic.twitter.com/ln2TuOTGFZ
8. Also worth noting that this analogy has roots in anti-semitism and was used against the Jews. goo.gl/sgmRT0
9. In the 1930s, they didn't have poisonous skittles but they did have poisonous mushrooms goo.gl/sgmRT0
Here's the kicker: The Skittles photo that Trump used for his tweet? It was taken by a refugee, and he is not happy about how Trump used it. "This was not done with my permission, I don't support his politics and I would never take his money to use it," David Kittos, a UK-based photographer, told the BBC.
And just in case you needed another reminder of what is actually happening in Syria:
Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr, this is one of the millions of children you compared to a poisoned Skittle today: cnn.com/2016/08/17/wor…
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