>>IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE ATTACK IN LONDON DONALD TRUMP
LAUNCHED HIS OWN ATTACK ON LONDON, SPECIFICALLY MAYOR KHAN,
WHO HE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE A BIG FAN OF.
AT THE SAME TIME
THAT MANY AMERICANS ARE EXTENDING THEIR SYMPATHIES, HE
STARTS SENDING A STREAM OF, OF COURSE, TWEETS.
STARTING WITH
THIS, AND IT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD --
>>AND IN 60 SECONDS OF SERENITY LATER, HE THEN DECIDED TO TAKE A
SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TACK.
HE SAID --
>>BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST SAY THAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS WHAT IS
ALLOWING THESE ATTACKS TO HAPPEN WITHOUT PROVIDING ANY EVIDENCE,
AND YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT WITH THAT OR YOU CAN HAVE A SHOW ON
TV WITH THAT.
PEOPLE ARE USING THAT FOR BOTH ENDS THESE DAYS.
THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY --
>>OH MY GOD, THE MAYOR WOULD SAY SOMETHING IS TONE DEAF IS
THAT AFTER SEVEN ARE DEAD?
NO, OF COURSE HE WOULDN'T, IT'S A
COMPLETE PURPOSEFUL MISREPRESENTATION OF WHAT SADIQ
KHAN WAS SAYING, WHICH IS THIS --
>>
NO ONE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN THEY READ THAT.
>>THAT WAS A PERFECTLY FINE TWEET -- I'M TALKING ABOUT
SADIQ KHAN'S TWEET -- AND EVEN SO PEOPLE READING IT IN CONTEXT
AND THINK IT'S STILL OUTRAGEOUS BECAUSE HE SAID THE REASON TO BE
ALARMED.
SO WHAT IS YOUR SOLUTION, TO BE ALARMED?
FOR
EVERYONE TO LOSE IT AND THROW FECES AT ONE ANOTHER?
HOW IS
THAT A GOOD SOLUTION OR A GOOD REACTION TO A TRAGEDY THAT JUST
OCCURRED?
THAT WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.
>>THROWING FECES IS NOT A GOOD REACTION, I AGREE.
SO THE PEOPLE
WHO FREAKED OUT, ONE OF THEM WAS THE PRESIDENT, BECAUSE DESPITE
THE FACT THAT THE STATEMENT WE READ FROM MAYOR KHAN IS QUITE
CLEAR, THAT SIBLEY BECAUSE THEY DEPLOYED MORE POLICE DOESN'T
MEAN THAT THEY THOUGHT MORE ATTACKS WERE COMING, SO DON'T
WORRY, INTO DON'T WORRY ABOUT TERRORISM WHEN THE PRESIDENT
SAYS IT.
SO THE PRESIDENT DOUBLES DOWN --
>>NO, THE MSM IS NOT WORKING HARD TO SELL IT, THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE IS WORKING HARD TO SELL IT.
BECAUSE WORDS HAVE MEANING,
AND EVERYONE WHO HAS A SECOND-GRADE COMPREHENSION LEVEL
UNDERSTANDS WHAT HE MEANT.
SADIQ KHAN WAS BEING RESPONSIBLE IN
THE FACE OF A POPULATION THAT HAD REASON TO BE AFRAID, HE WAS
REASSURING THEM.
YOU ARE SCORING CHEAP, STUPID POLITICAL POINTS
OFF OF IT BY TRYING TO ATTACK THE MAYOR OF A TOWN THAT HAD
JUST BEEN ATTACKED.
AS IF SOMEONE HAD DECIDED IN THE HOURS
AFTER 9/11 TO GO ON A TEAR AGAINST RUDY GIULIANI AND ATTACK
HIM AS PATHETIC IN THE WAKE OF IT.
HOW CRAZY WOULD THAT HAVE
BEEN?
MAYBE NOT CRAZY COMING FROM HIM, BECAUSE THIS IS THE
GUY AFTER ALL WHO IN THE HOURS AFTER 9/11 SAID THAT WE NOW HAVE
THE BIGGEST BUILDING IN NEW YORK.
MAYBE HE THINKS EVERYONE
IS AS CRAZY AS HE IS, BUT NOBODY WAS RESPONDING THAT WAY TO SADIQ
KHAN OTHER THAN TRUMP.
>>AND GIULIANI WAS SAYING ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS, BE NEW YORKERS.
>>SIMILAR TO WHAT SADIQ KHAN SAID.
BACK WHEN RUDY GIULIANI WASN'T CRAZY.
>>YES HE WAS.
>>LET'S NOT FORGET THAT THE MAYOR OF LONDON IS A MUSLIM
MAYOR, WE TALK ABOUT TRUMP TRYING TO EARN SOME POLITICAL
POINTS WITH HIS BASE THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO, THE FACT
THAT HE IS ATTACKING A MUSLIM MAYOR.
WOULD HAVE A SIMILAR
RESPONSE IF IT WERE ANY OTHER MAYOR WITH ANY OTHER BACKGROUND?
I DON'T KNOW, PROBABLY NOT.
BUT I THINK THE FACT THAT IT'S A
MUSLIM MAYOR IS EXACTLY WHAT MOTIVATED TRUMP TO ATTACK HIM AS
HE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF DEALING WITH A TRAGEDY IN HIS OWN -- IN
THE TOWN HERO PRESENT.
IT'S SO DISGUSTING.
>>HE
HAS HAD A BAD WEEK WITH MAYORS BECAUSE THE MAYOR OF PITTSBURGH
HAS BEEN ALL OVER HIM, ALL THESE OTHER MAYORS GETTING TOGETHER.
>>161 MAYORS GETTING TOGETHER.
>>THERE'S ALSO A CHANCE THAT HE THINKS SADIQ KHAN IS KHIZR
KHAN, THE GOLDSTAR FATHER -- THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
AND HE'S
DONE SO MUCH TO ANGER OUR ALLIES, AND TAKEN IN GERMANY,
WEIRDLY LEAKING INFORMATION IN THE WAKE OF THE MANCHESTER
ATTACK, THERE ARE ALREADY REASONS TO BE WORRIED ABOUT OUR
FUTURE RELATIONSHIP WITH FRANCE AND GERMANY AND THE U.K., AND
THIS IS THROWING FUEL ON THE FIRE FOR NO PURPOSE.
AND I KNOW
HIS SUPPORTERS HATE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY AND WANTED TO BE NOT
AMERICA FIRST BUT AMERICA ONLY -- WITH THIS HAS CONSEQUENCES IN
TERMS OF US RECEIVING PERHAPS INTELLIGENCE FROM THEM, FIGHTING
AGAINST THREATS TO OURSELVES -- IT'S SO STUPID, SO SHORTSIGHTED,
AND SO OBVIOUS THAT WE WOULD HAVE THESE SORTS OF PROBLEMS IF
WE ALLOWED DONALD TRUMP TO BECOME PRESIDENT.