President Trump has openly and explicitly encouraged individual violence many times as president and as a candidate.
From Charlottesville to New Zealand, violent people have credited Trump as an inspiration."If I talked about the stupid subway the way Trump talks about Muslims, I’d get a visit from the Department of Homeland Security," wrote Elie Mystal in
The Nation this week. "If I tweeted about Trump Tower the way Trump tweets about Omar, I’d get a visit from DHS and the Secret Service."
Trump has focused his incitement of bigotry and violence on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and we need to stand up together against it.
Click here to contribute to Ilhan's re-election campaign.Just a week after one of his supporters was arrested by the FBI for threatening to shoot Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in the head, Trump tweeted a misleading and inflammatory video promoting just the sort of hatred toward Omar that the man arrested had expressed.
Just hours after Omar reported an increase in the death threats she had received since Trump's tweet (many of them referring to Trump's tweet), Trump tweeted again, this time falsely accusing Ilhan of "U.S. HATE statements."
This will only continue to escalate unless we stand up against it, unless we show that Trump's attacks actually produce a surge of support for those he targets.
Click here to donate to Congresswoman Omar's re-election campaign and to support the work of RootsAction.org.
Thank you!
—Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, and the RootsAction Team
Background:
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ABC News: Trump defiant amid backlash, security concerns over tweeted video of Rep. Ilhan Omar>>
The Nation: Donald Trump Isn’t Playing Games With Ilhan Omar—He’s Inciting Violence
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