When 28-year-old self-avowed white supremacist Brenton Tarrant massacred 49 worshippers March 14 at Christchurch New Zealand’s Al Noor Mosque, the American press blamed the tragedy on 72-year-old President Donald Trump. Since the Charlottesville, Va. “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 11, 2017, Trump been accused of supporting white nationalism. White nationalists protested the removal of a post-Civil War statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general that battled Union troops in the U.S. Civil War [April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865]. When Trump accused ANTIFA [Abolish capitalism, anti-fascist Action, Smash Fascism] of culpability in the violence resulting in three dead and 38 injuries, the U.S. press has attacked Trump as a racist. Trump never condoned the riots at Charlottesville, only said both sides provoked the violence on each other.
Trump didn’t realize that Charlottesville would set the Democrat narrative for the 2020 presidential election, with Democrats and backers in the press accusing Trump of racisim. When the massacre happened yesterday in New Zealand, the press associated the violence with Trump’s white nationalist leanings. Whether that’s true or not, Trump has never supported, backed or funded any white nationalist or media groups like Breitbart News, whose news and opinions attract the white nationalist readers. Whether white nationalists are drawn to Breitbart or the Wall Street Journal doesn’t mean the editorial board backs racism, xenophobia, homophobia or any other onerous practice. With the New Zealand massacre of Muslims by racist nut-job, the media has had a field day, somehow demonizing Trump for his anti-illegal-immigration polices on the U.S.-Mexican border.
In his 74-page rambling manifesto, Tarrant called Trump “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” suggesting that Trump encouraged attacks on Muslims and other immigrant groups. Speaking for himself, Tarrant certainly doesn’t speak for the president, nor is their any justification for mass murder. “I think it sounds very much to me like he’s encouraging them [Trump supporters] to engage in something that’s possibly illegal such as assaulting people, you now have in dangerous ways,” said Sen. Mazie Heirono (D.Ha.), one of Trump biggest haters on Capitol Hill. Trump’s never encouraged anyone to riot, commit violent acts or do anything illegal. “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of Bikers for Trump,” Trump told Breitbart news. From that statement, Heirono leaps to the conclusion that Trump backs violence against minorities.
With the 2020 election in gear, Democrats have decided to throw as much mud on Trump as possible, especially now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation may not show Russian collusion. Democrats have practically stood on their heads to link Trump to the Kremlin. If Mueller’s report comes back empty, Democrats plan to pursue the Russian link in Democrat-controlled House committees. Even if Trump is cleared by Mueller, Democrats plan to tar-and-feather him with gossip, innuendo and unnamed sources until the 2020 presidential election. Yesterday’s massacre in New Zealand says nothing about the rise of white nationalism, other that one lunatic’s ballistic episode. How Democrats tie that rampage to Trump is anyone’s guess. If crazy racists attack Muslims in New Zealand or other racial of or ethnic groups, it’s not related to the rise of white nationalism elsewhere.
Painting Trump as a violent white nationalist serves the Democrat Party much like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) “Green New Deal,” expecting the world to stop burning fossil fuels or eating meat because of cow flatulence. If enough news outlets push the Trump’s white nationalist or violent propensities, then it will surely filter into the public’s thinking. Muslim immigration into Europe, primarily from war-torn Syria, created waves of terrorism, leaving certain countries reluctant to take more Mideast refugees. With years of Islamic extremism wreaking havoc in the United States, European Union and now New Zealand, it’s no wonder countries like Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland refuse to take the EU’s recommended quotas of Mideast refugees, leaving a bitter divide in the EU. Forcing Mideast immigration led to the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote for the U.K. to get out of the EU.
Branding Trump a racist, Islamophobe, homophobe and misogynist is clearly the Democrat strategy before the 2020 presidential election. Tying Trump to the massacre in New Zealand only helps Democrats as they build their case against Trump for 2020. When Trump signed his veto of Democrats’ bill rescinding his border emergency, he said that rising white nationalism did not cause the New Zealand rampage, leaving 49 dead. Like most experts on mass murder and violence, Trump sees the perverted actions of one lone nut-job Brenton Tarrant, convincing him that killing Muslims avenges Islamic extremist attacks in Europe and the United States. Trump is no more connected to the New Zealand massacre than he was to Charlottesville, where ANTIFA confronted white nationalists. Whatever problems the U.S., EU or New Zealand has with refugees, it’s not going to stop lone-wolf mass killers.
