Wednesday, October 31, 2018

President Hate Visited Pittsburgh

NY Times: Trump’s Visit to Pittsburgh Divides a City Mourning Victims of Hate By Campbell Robertson, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Trip Gabriel
But if Mr. Trump’s visit was intended to bring healing, it instead laid bare the nation’s deep divisions. Many protesters in Pittsburgh had no doubt of what one called “the dotted line” between presidential rhetoric and violence, though some people in the city have pushed back on the idea that Mr. Trump had fomented the atmosphere of anger. As the president moved around Pittsburgh, a largely Democratic city, the signs of discord were apparent.

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