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"News of Roberts’s alleged comments to colleagues comes as #Trump, the #Republican nominee for president, & his running mate, #JDVance, have engaged in a #racist & false #propaganda campaign to demonize #Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, #Ohio, by claiming that they have been killing & eating people’s #pets. The xenophobic claims... have incited multiple bomb threats that have disrupted the #Springfield community."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog
#GOP #Lies #TrumpLies #Republicans #News #USA
Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel
Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
City Manager Bryan Heck fielded an unusual question at City Hall on the morning of Sept 9, from a staff member of #Republican #Trump VP nom #JDVance. The staffer called to ask if there was any truth to bizarre rumors about #Haitian #immigrants & pets in #Springfield.
“He asked point-blank, ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken & eaten?’” recalled Heck. “I told him no. There was no verifiable evidence or reports to show this was true. I told them these claims were baseless.”
The latest apparent assassination attempt against Trump indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by #anger stirred by him & against him.
Within days of Trump #vilifying #immigrants on national TV w/ #lies about #Haitian #immigrants eating pets in #Ohio, people began threatening to blow up #schools, #CityHall & other public bldgs, forcing #evacuations & prompting a wave of #fear.
-PeterBaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&pvid=CF8B20A1-9295-4D22-895D-B8B8DF64FCD6
The "#Haitian #Immigrants eating pets" story illustrates two things:
1) There are a LOT of stupid people who believe everything they read on the Internet.
2) One of them is running for president. 😒
His remarks were the latest in a swirl of canards that #Trump has spread about #Haitian #immigrants, despite [#law enforcement], #local [+ #state & #federal government] officials debunking the claims [over & over & over]. Leaders in #Springfield have said the claims are harming the #community, which has been forced to #evacuate #schools, #CityHall & other buildings after receiving #threats due to Trump’s remarks.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #dangerous #racist #ConspiracyTheories #WhiteNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/14/trump-immigrants-eating-pets-racist-stereotype/
Trump’s false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope
The baseless assertion that immigrants in Ohio are eating people’s pets mirrors claims that have been used against migrants since the 1800s, scholars and historians say.Justine McDaniel (The Washington Post)