11-06-2016, 07:46 PM
The Trump campaign’s reaction to an unarmed protester wasn’t just wrong. It was scary.
Even so, immediately after the incident, Trump’s campaign surrogates - Donald Trump Jr. and the campaign’s communications aide Dan Scavino Jr. - baselessly billed the incident as an “assassination attempt” on Twitter, even suggesting it was the work of the Clinton campaign. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, chalked it up to heightened emotions - they were “rattled” watching the incident live, and assumed the worst. For that they are “excused,” she said.
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But as Amir Tibon, a correspondent with Walla News, an Israeli media company, pointed out, this kind of response also reveals something about the Trump campaign that could prove dangerous in the White House...In other words, the Trump campaign has a habit of quickly escalating incidents without evidence, and that could have adverse consequences on a global scale.
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Even so, immediately after the incident, Trump’s campaign surrogates - Donald Trump Jr. and the campaign’s communications aide Dan Scavino Jr. - baselessly billed the incident as an “assassination attempt” on Twitter, even suggesting it was the work of the Clinton campaign. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, chalked it up to heightened emotions - they were “rattled” watching the incident live, and assumed the worst. For that they are “excused,” she said.
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But as Amir Tibon, a correspondent with Walla News, an Israeli media company, pointed out, this kind of response also reveals something about the Trump campaign that could prove dangerous in the White House...In other words, the Trump campaign has a habit of quickly escalating incidents without evidence, and that could have adverse consequences on a global scale.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2...vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_source=facebook