Bette Midler: POTUS Incited Gunmen to Do His ‘Dirty Work for Him’

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Bette Midler has accused President Trump of inciting murderous gunmen to do his “dirty work” in another obscene Twitter rant.

The far-left actress took to Twitter Thursday to link the El Paso shooter, who killed 22 innocent people, to the President of the United States.

“REMEMBER WHEN #DonaldTrump SAID HE COULD SHOOT SOMEONE ON FIFTH AVENUE AND GET AWAY WITH IT?” Midler asked her 1.7 million followers.

“WELL, HE DIDN’T SHOOT SOMEONE HIMSELF, BUT HE INCITED OTHERS TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK FOR HIM, AS HE HAS DONE HIS WHOLE LIFE.”

Breitbart.com reports: President Trump made the referenced remark during a 2016 rally at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. While many said it was a poor choice of words, it was not a call to violence, as Trump’s critics — such as Midler — seem to suggest. Rather, Trump was making a quip about the loyalty of his base.

Left-wing celebrities and politicians have glommed onto a manifesto attributed to the El Paso shooter, which detailed the gunman’s anti-immigration views and mentioned the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” However, the author of the manifesto — thought to be the 21-year-old gunman — wrote that his twisted ideas predated Trump. Nonetheless, the shooter did not hold Trump’s views, as Trump has never called for violence or expressed racist hatred for foreigners. Still, the left has conflated the president’s desire for basic border security measures with “hate,” thus blaming Trump for the shooter’s actions.

“I know it’s crazy to take Trump’s words seriously, but some people do,” The Daily Showhost Trevor Noah said Monday night. “In fact, as we’ve learned, the mass shooter in El Paso left behind a manifesto that included the same phrases Trump uses every day — ‘fake news,’ ‘immigrant invasions.’ In fact, the only reason you know it wasn’t written by Trump is because the grammar was correct.”

“Another mass shooting. Another White Nationalist,” left-wing filmmaker Rob Reiner tweeted over the weekend. “There are not ‘fine people on both sides.’ The President of the United States bears responsibility.”

Reiner went as far as suggesting that Trump is inciting violence, merely by running for a second term.

“After the mass slaughter in El Paso in the name of White Supremacy, Donald Trump continues to incite violence with his refusal to end his racist campaign,” he wrote. “The President of the United States has no soul. We are staring into the face of evil.”

Late-night TBS host Samantha Bee took it a step further and essentially compared Trump to the gunman.

“As far as we know, the El Paso shooter wasn’t mentally ill at all. Being a racist monster isn’t a mental illness. In fact, you can be one and be a ‘very stable genius,’” she said– a direct reference to Trump.

Despite the left’s accusatory remarks, Trump has not called for violence and has repeatedly condemned white supremacy and racism, telling the American people on Monday that white supremacy, bigotry, and racism are “sinister ideologies” that “must be defeated.”

Notably, far-left celebrities like Midler and Reiner have not been as vocal about the Dayton shooter, who supported Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and held anti-police, anti-ICE, and anti-gun views.

10 Comments

  1. The degree of irrelevance of a celebrity is directly proportional to the level of outrage that they will spew forth to get attention, apparently.

  2. Bette Midler, once again spewing garbage & lies in my opinion!

    Democrats know that Americans, white, black, & brown hail from every corner of the globe, that Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the population, & that “making America white again” would be an impossibility since it was never “white” to begin with in light of the fact that Native Americans were here first & the records of those who came through Ellis Island clearly show that not all were “white”.

    With that being the case, why even make such a stupid, hateful, vile statement saying that Trump “WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN” if not for the express purpose of dividing the nation/our citizens, causing chaos, ginning up fear/anger, “triggering” people, fanning the flames of dissent, & inciting violence??

    What do you suppose those words sounded like to a Democratic extremist/nutjob who has been described as a “White Supremacist” & “White Nationalist” by the Left/Democrats even as they continue to flood the nation with illegals from south American countries & demand open borders??? No doubt, the shooter like the rest of us has seen/heard Democrats & Presidential candidates talk about increasing both legal & illegal immigration to the U.S. regardless of the financial impact to our own citizens & the potential danger they pose.

    In my opinion, Democrats “triggered” the nutjob with their vile, hateful, racist comments & then pointed him in the direction of innocent people!

    Signed,
    A brown skinned, Spanish speaking American Citizen of Latin/Hispanic & Native American descent

  3. “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and
    its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers!
    How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of
    the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure
    brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings
    forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account
    for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be
    justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

    Matthew Ch 12

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