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Donald Trump Refuses To Take Responsibility For His False, Racist Tweet About Black Crime

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on November 24, 2015 · Flag

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Donald Trump has been caught using fake statistics to smear black people but Bill O’Reilly wants to help him out of the jam because he “never saw any racism” from Trump and “I look out for every honest politician.”

Trump lies so often there’s not a single rating of “True” from PolitiFact about any of his statements. That does include some of Trump’s preposterous lies about President Obama’s birth certificate.

Nevertheless, O’Reilly tried to help Trump play the liberal-media victim after he tweeted a bogus table of statistics portraying blacks as murderers.

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From Media Matters’ transcript:

O’REILLY (HOST): Are you aware that the liberal media and the Democratic Party in general are trying to paint you as a racist? Are you aware of that?

TRUMP: I think so. But I think people know better than that. I’m probably the least racist person on Earth.

O’REILLY: Well I have known you a long time—

TRUMP: I think people know better than that. 

O’REILLY: -- I never saw any racism from you. However, when you tweet out a thing, and this bothered me, I got to tell you. You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks—these are statistics you picked up from somewhere—at a rate of 81 percent. And that’s totally wrong. Whites killed by blacks is 15 percent, yet you tweeted it was 81 percent. 

As Media Matters noted, O’Reilly’s claim never to have seen racism from Trump is at odds with the tweet that O’Reilly was citing. But I believe that O’Reilly was not at all concerned about the obvious racist intent behind Trump’s tweet so much as O’Reilly was concerned with how it was being (mis)construed by the so-called “liberal media.”

But even by that low bar, Trump failed.

TRUMP: Bill, I didn’t tweet. I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and also a radio show. 

O’REILLY: Yeah, but you don’t want to be—why do you want to be in that zone? 

TRUMP: Bill. Bill. Am I going to check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people @realdonaldtrump by the way. 

O’REILLY: You got to. You are a presidential contender you got to check it. 

TRUMP: I have millions of people. You know what, fine, but this came out of radio shows and everything else. 

O’REILLY: Oh come on, radio shows? 

TRUMP: Excuse me. All it was is a retweet. It wasn’t from me. And it did. It came out of radio show and other places, because you see all the names –

But as Think Progress pointed out, the retweet did not come from a radio show, but from an anonymous Twitter user named @SeanSean252, with no apparent expertise in anything other than hating those who are not conservative enough for him.

The radio show Trump referenced, The Wayne Dupree Show, had nothing to do with the tweet. @WayneDupreeShow was simply tagged in @SeanSean252’s original tweet along with Trump. … The graphic actually originated from a neo-Nazi on Twitter. 

So, we have a presidential candidate willing to tweet out any old anti-African American internet meme, without bothering to check its accuracy, and sees no reason why he should. And the only reason that matters to O’Reilly is because liberals will (wrongly) use this against the noble Trump.

O’REILLY:  Look, you know I’m looking out for you, right? You know that? That I’m looking out for you? I look out for every honest politician, I don’t care what party they are in. Don’t do this. Don’t put your name on stuff like this. Because it makes the other side, it gives them stuff to tell the ill-informed voter that you are a racist. I mean, you just handed them a platter.

Meanwhile, also over the weekend, Trump supporters beat up a #BlackLivesMatter protester at a Trump campaign event. On Sunday, Trump announced, on Fox News, that the protester “should have been roughed up.” He got a pass from the Fox & Friends hosts when he said that. O’Reilly didn’t even mention it.

Watch it below, from the November 23 The O’Reilly Factor.

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David Lindsay commented 2015-11-25 20:34:48 -0500 · Flag
Hey Tim, we LOVE Trump too!!! We’re looking forward to the GOP nominating an orange haired gasbag who’s liable to change horses midstream just like half Governor Palin.

As far as that worst prezident ever, let’s see,…

http://end.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Mr. Smith commented 2015-11-25 09:47:49 -0500 · Flag
Ha ha! I’m LOVING Trump! Love him for getting on the nerves of so many of you lefty- lunatics with his dishing out of the TRUTH!!! He will be our next president! He is going to win! HA HA HA HA!!!!! Payback for your racist voting for the worst potus ever- B. Hussein Obama.
truman commented 2015-11-24 21:29:04 -0500 · Flag
T-Rump won’t allow any of the other GOPiggy candidates to outflank him on the right when it comes down to being anti-Black, anti-Muslim or anti-Hispanic. T-Rump can win the GOPiggy nomination with that vile hatemongering, but he will be annihilated by Hillary Clinton in the general election.
David Lindsay commented 2015-11-24 17:16:37 -0500 · Flag
Fact Checkers R Us is having a Thanksgiving sale this week. The preferred source of facts for blow hard right wing pundits and Presidential candidates.

Except for Rush. He pulls his facts straight out of his ass.
Thx4 Fish commented 2015-11-24 14:52:33 -0500 · Flag
I once asked my right wing aunt how she would know if someone is a racist. She started to answer quickly, and I qualified that I was wondering about white racists. That took her back a bit, (she clearly knew how to identify non-white racists). But she finally replied that she knew one of her aquaintances was a racist because he used the n-word regularly. And that was pretty much her only criteria. I wish I could ask O’Reilly the same. I’m sure he’s never thought about it for one moment
marco commented 2015-11-24 14:19:21 -0500 · Flag
Considering each black and white killing statistic adds to 100% (and not stating the race of the police) well, that goes to show there are no killings of white people by Hispanics, Asians (Muslims) or others. Seems black and white to me.
w d commented 2015-11-24 14:13:45 -0500 · Flag
Well, at least tRump has his “serious” face on…
John Martin commented 2015-11-24 14:06:26 -0500 · Flag
Hair Trump hyperbolist,confabulist car toon character gets a stain of approval from a fellow clown. Fox at its best ! Jawohl mein Hair .
Antoinette commented 2015-11-24 12:54:22 -0500 · Flag
Insiders know that Trumpster is not qualified to run as President of the U.S. The takedown begins.

Grab that popcorn the second half of the show will be brutal.
d d commented 2015-11-24 11:14:57 -0500 · Flag
So BOR has never seen “any racism” from Trump? BOR really didn’t see any racism in Trump’s comment that the Mexicans coming into the US are criminals and rapists and that only “some” might be good people?! And, if someone does come to the conclusion (from Trump’s own words and tweets) that he holds racist beliefs, they are “ill informed” voters? What an insulting and inaccurate statement! So, basically, if you don’t think like BOR, you are “ill informed”. Pffft.

I realize that BOR and Trump are friends (such as hanging out together at Yankees’ games) but how BOR can not see the racism in some of Trump’s remarks and tweets just proves that BOR is being deliberately obtuse in order to protect his buddy, the GOP front runner.

What this comes down to is 2 things: 1) BOR hates it that Trump gave the so-called “liberal media” an easy one to fact check and find false. If BOR was an honest broker and a “fair & balanced” analyst, he should be glad that Trump is being called out by the media for using dishonest stats. But, nah, he’s more upset that “liberal media” have been given yet another example of what a liar and racist The Donald has turned out to be.

Sorry, BOR, but facts do matter so the real question is why are YOU “looking out for” a guy who has no problem lying to the citizens? You say that you “look out for” honest politicians – well, Trump is NOT honest so quit trying to prop up your buddy when he totally steps in it and then doubles down on his deceit.

2) BOR knows that Trump’s behavior is hurting the GOP brand and BOR doesn’t want his/his network’s preferred political party to go down in defeat to Hillary (because their front runner is playing to the right-wing base by highlighting his racist tendencies). BOR desperately tried to rehab the situation but Trump still came out looking like an ass. And, I might add, so does BOR for continuing to “look out for” the likes of dishonest hacks like Trump.

And, finally, does anyone else find it hilarious that BOR has the gall to tell someone else that they have to fact check? Bwaaah!
Anne-claire Souza commented 2015-11-24 11:00:30 -0500 · Flag
Spare me !








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