{"id":1006166,"date":"2019-08-08T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006166"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:03:51","slug":"like-clockwork-trump-uses-a-mass-shooting-for-personal-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/like-clockwork-trump-uses-a-mass-shooting-for-personal-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Clockwork: Trump Uses A Mass Shooting For Personal Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday, Trump managed to make his visits to victims of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings all about himself. If you were surprised, then you haven\u2019t been paying attention. Trump has repeatedly exploited mass shootings for his personal gain.<\/p>\n

Trump boasted that his poll numbers went up after mass shootings.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cIt is interesting, because every time there is a horrible act, and this is a shame in many respects, but from the standpoint of what happens, every time a really bad act takes place, like Paris — it happened with Paris, it happens now — my cold and was go up \u2013 my poll numbers go up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cEarly Thursday morning, Trump did it again. This time, he retweeted a supporter who pretty clearly appeared to suggest that the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday \u2014 shootings that killed 14 and injured 17 \u2014 would help Trump’s \u2018poll numbers.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Trump bragged \u201cI was right\u201d and \u201cappreciate the congrats for being right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cAppreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m getting thousands of letters and tweets that I was right about the whole situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI have been getting thousands and thousands of tweets and letters and phone calls that I was right, congratulations. […] I was right, and I have been right, and I am right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration used the San Bernardino shooting to try to justify his Muslim ban.<\/p>\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cA senior Trump administration official on Saturday pointed to the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, to justify the President’s order to ban US immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump suggested President Obama was complicit in the Orlando shooting.<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen\u2026 In that same interview, Trump was asked to explain why he called for Obama to resign in light of the shooting and he answered, in part: \u2018He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other and either one is unacceptable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump used the Orlando shooting to attack President Obama for being \u201cweak\u201d and to attack Muslims.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: “You have many, many people, thousands of people, already in our country, that are sick with hate. And people that are around him, Muslims, know who they are, largely. They know who they are. They have to turn them in.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cMr. Trump wasted no time in casting the massacre as evidence of the accuracy of his warnings about the threat America faced and the Obama administration\u2019s ineptitude. \u2018Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism,\u2019 he wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Though he also said he did not want to be congratulated, he issued a statement again patting himself on the back: \u2018Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen \u2014 and it is only going to get worse.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After the shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Trump suggested \u201cthere\u2019s something going on\u201d with Obama\u2019s support of police.<\/p>\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump Questions Obama On Support Of Police: \u2018There\u2019s Something Going On\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Huffington Post<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump Floats Gross New Conspiracy Theory About Barack Obama\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Trump managed to make his visits to victims of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings all about himself. If you were surprised, then you haven\u2019t been paying attention. Trump has repeatedly exploited mass shootings for his personal gain. Trump boasted that his poll numbers went up after mass shootings. Trump: \u201cIt is interesting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLike Clockwork: Trump Uses A Mass Shooting For Personal Gain - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/like-clockwork-trump-uses-a-mass-shooting-for-personal-gain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-08T20:00:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:03:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/War-Room.png?w=300\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/like-clockwork-trump-uses-a-mass-shooting-for-personal-gain\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/like-clockwork-trump-uses-a-mass-shooting-for-personal-gain\/\",\"name\":\"Like Clockwork: Trump Uses A Mass Shooting For Personal Gain - 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