{"id":21984,"date":"2017-05-29T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21984"},"modified":"2017-05-29T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:16:39","slug":"attack-unacceptable-thats-it-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21984","title":{"rendered":"Attack ‘unacceptable’? That’s it, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A man believed to have white supremacist links stabbed two other men to death on a Portland, Ore., mass transit rail line the other day.<\/p>\n

The victims were breaking up a disturbance involving a man and two young women. The man was verbally attacking them; one of the women was wearing a Muslim hijab.<\/p>\n

Police have arrested Jeremy Joseph Christian, who’s been charged with murder.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back in the White House, the president of the United States was blazing away on his Twitter account blasting “fake news,” and congratulating the winner of a Montana special election after he “body slammed” a reporter.<\/p>\n

Where was Donald Trump’s outrage at the senseless murder in Portland?<\/p>\n

No mention of hate crime<\/a><\/p>\n

He weighed in today — finally<\/em>, saying that the “violent attacks in Portland are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w\/them.”<\/p>\n

According to the Huffington Post: “Not one of Trump\u2019s personal Twitter messages mentioned Portland, the two deceased men being hailed as ‘heroes,’ or a condemnation of the attacker\u2019s actions that are being investigated by police as a hate crime.”<\/p>\n

Is it me or does this expression of presidential emotion seem just a bit tepid?<\/p>\n\n

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A man believed to have white supremacist links stabbed two other men to death on a Portland, Ore., mass transit rail line the other day. The victims were breaking up a disturbance involving a man and two young women. The man was verbally attacking them; one of the women was wearing a Muslim hijab. Police … Continue reading Attack ‘unacceptable’? That’s it, Mr. President?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,3671],"class_list":["post-21984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-portland-or"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}