He also told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that it would be unwise for his father to release his tax returns because it would “distract” from his father’s “main message”. In fact, as Colbert points out, “the Conservative Cato institute did the math and found the odds of an American being killed by a refugee in a terror attack is one in 3.64 billion. that’s not three poisoned Skittles in a bown. This was not done with my permission”, Kittos said. It’s marked with a copyright note: “All rights reserved”.
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The 38-year-old businessman captioned the meme, “This image says it all. Sending me a flickrmail to ask me first, isn’t exactly painful, is it now?”
Trump has made screening, and in some cases outright barring, immigrants and refugees from entering the county a wedge issue in this year’s presidential campaign.
The scion of America’s most soiled real estate brand tweeted an image of a bowl of Skittles, accompanied by an ominous caption.
According to the BBC, the photographer who took the Skittles photo and posted it on Flickr has revealed himself as a refugee and is not happy with Trump. The group’s ad includes commentary from Republican strategist Nicole Wallace on MSNBC who explains, “There’s nothing particularly constructive or elevated that he said about refugees – or factual”. And Trump Jr. used the photo without permission.
“I have never put this image up for sale”, he told the broadcaster. He was dismayed at finding the image used in the current refugee debate.
“Donald Trump Jr. was so excellent that my brain was already thinking, ‘What should we run him for?'” Trisha Turner, the president of the New York State Federation of Republican Women, told ABC News at the convention. We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control.
Kittos said his family had to leave all their possessions behind when they fled Cyprus in 1974.
“This isn’t about the money for me”, Kittos said.
“This isn’t about the money for me”.
“They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library”. “This is pure greed from them”, he says.
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Had the Trump campaign or Trump Jr. wished to pay for an image, they could have purchased similar Skittles photos on Shutterstock at the cost of two for $29.
