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Originally Posted by finnbow
Now, we know who is to blame for the NYC attack, courtesy of Trump, Hannity and Seb Gorka - Sen. Chuck Schumer. 
President Trump and some of his allies on the extreme right have found a new culprit in Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attack in Manhattan: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).
As details emerged about the incident, prominent right-wing commentators and news outlets seized on an ABC7 story reporting that alleged attacker Sayfullo Saipov had come to the United States from Uzbekistan under a State Department program known as the Diversity Visa Lottery...
Blaming terrorism and violent crime on the nation’s immigration laws is standard conservative fare. It’s how Trump has justified his travel ban...
Schumer did play a key role in drawing up the program in 1990. His proposals eventually became part of a broader immigration package that was passed by Congress in a bipartisan vote and signed into law by a Republican president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...chuck-schumer/
After the Las Vegas tragedy, it was too early to talk about sensible gun control. However, on the morning after the NYC tragedy, it's not too early to falsely and cynically blame the Senator from NY for a tragedy in his own hometown. MAGA, indeed. |
Demonizing the NRA was the right thing to do immediately after the Vegas shooting. However, correctly identifying Schumer is complicit in proposing the "diversity immigration program" that allowed the NYC terrorist into the US is bad because to "falsely and cynically blame the Senator from NY for a tragedy in his own hometown."
Uh huh.