Correct the Record, a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, cut a new political ad highlighting the backlash of Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles comment.
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According to the Tribune, the senior Trump has advocated ideological vetting for Muslim visitors to the US and has called for a moratorium on immigration from war-torn Syria, a region that has been crippled by the rise of ISIS.
“Among them are more than 21 million refugees who have fled their countries – everything and everyone they’ve ever known, fleeing with a suitcase or the clothes on their back”, he said.
The analogy does not appear to be a Trump Jr. creation. Mars Candy eventually chimed in to distance themselves from the message.
Instead, we can work out how large the bowl would need to be, in order to make the Skittles it contains representative of the risk posed to Americans by Syrian refugees. “It’s an inappropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing”, the company said in an statement from a spokeswoman.
In some cases – such as when he did a radio interview with a white nationalist and posted a symbol used by white supremacists – Trump Jr. claimed ignorance.
The Washington Post, arguing that the analogy is “completely wrong”, cited a recent report that found that “from 1975 through 2015, the annual chance that an American would be murdered in a terrorist attack carried out by a foreign-born terrorist was 1 in 3,609,709”.
“Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist”.
Donald Trump is on track to be the first modern presidential candidate withhold his tax information. His father has repeatedly said the reason he has not released his returns is because they are being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Walsh told Chicago Inc. References to “the gas chamber” are not.
“They’ve let her slide on every discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of the thing”, he said. I don’t think they care about my feelings. “It’s a very different system – there’s nothing fair about it”. He works as a real estate executive with the Trump Organisation. He also decried the “frat boy” culture around Trump, which he said stems directly from the candidate.
The Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish advocacy group, was less sure.
The elder Trump’s tweets are scary in themselves, but in a hot reactionary way. If anyone is comprised of toxic sludge in this situation, it’s the racist Trumps.
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He said while he was unsure he would take legal action, “They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library”.
