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Trump Corruption Watch: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross at Nexus of Trump's Russian Deal

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Mike Lamb2/28/2017 3:52:28 pm PST

re: #58 Nyet

I don’t understand why this is the hill you’re choosing to die on. When he first made the statement, I admit I had trouble comprehending what the fuck he was talking about at all. To the extent he’s referencing false flag operations, the idea that we should a) assume he meant liberals in the context of violence/threatened violence against Jews seems an odd step to make (it’s like asking us to assume that he meant Jews if the target of the threats/violence was a bunch of regional Democratic Party offices) and/or b) assume that the statement was not vague enough to be a dog whistle to his anti-Semitic followers.

Furthermore, you seem to think that you have cornered the clear-eyed, logical interpretation of the statement, and ask that the entire incident be divorced from everything we know about Trump, his prior comments, his various appointments, etc. etc. There is no basis to grant him the benefit of the doubt here and I think it’s you that are straining the bounds of logic to assert to firmly that there weren’t significant anti-Semitic undertones with his statement.