More Republicans are revealing their desperation in attempts to reduce the strength of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and give their sad choice for the nomination at least an iota of hope. The latest is Oklahoma’s Republican Governor, Mary Fallin. We don’t know yet what Fallin’s ambitions are within the party, but I’m certain that she wants out of Oklahoma.
Although Fallin claims that she is not currently being vetted for Trump’s running mate, she is certainly attempting to spin the truth. (I wonder if she ever worked for FOX Noise).
Appearing on CNN Sunday, she said the following when asked about Trump’s views on racism.
“I think he is trying to campaign as a racial healer.” I wonder if she’s ever listened to a Trump speech. She continued:
“I think that has been part of his message, if you watch what he said this week, he talked about how devastating it was for Dallas, how we need to respect our law enforcement, to pray for those who are killed and those who are injured.”
This is what Trump previously said about the activist group “Black Lives Matter.”
“I think they’re trouble. I think they’re looking for trouble,” the tough-talking tycoon said during a Fox News interview with Bill O’Reilly.
“I looked at a couple of people that were interviewed from the group. I saw them with hate coming down the street last week talking about cops and police and what should be done to them. That was not good,” Trump said.
Trump aligned himself with FOX Noise entertainment personalities such as Bill O’Reilly in his condemnation of protests by BLM against the judicial system for failing to punish members of law enforcement who physically assault blacks with the use of excessive force, or shoot and kill them without provocation.
“I think it’s a disgrace that they’re getting away with it,” Trump said of the supporters’ chants regarding cops. “I think it’s disgraceful, the way they’re being catered to by the Democrats, and it’s going to end up kicking them you know where. I don’t think it’s going to end up good.
“The fact is, all lives matter. That includes black and it includes white and it includes everybody else,” Trump said, suggesting that be a “theme of our country.”
He either ‘just doesn’t get it,’ or he is in denial. Blacks have endured treatment far more severe than whites for decades. The only difference today is that virtually everyone has a camera, and the truth can no longer be covered up with paperwork and lies.
For Fallin to intimate that Trump is a ‘racial healer’ is preposterous. No presidential candidate in history has been as openly racist, bigoted, xenophobic, or misogynist.
However, we ae learning to accept that this is the Republican Party of 2016, and Trump is their standard bearer.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
The Truth With No Restrictions 