{"id":37082,"date":"2019-07-17T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37082"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:32:39","slug":"condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Condemned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich is a racist.&nbsp; How racist is he?&nbsp; Every bone in his body is racist, down to and including his imaginary bone spurs.&nbsp; He has received the official endorsement of the KKK and refused to disavow it.&nbsp; Yesterday the House of Representatives voted to condemn him for his racist tweets against &#8220;the crew&#8221;.&nbsp; Even four Republicans voted to condemn him.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0717donald-trump-david-duke\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0717donald-trump-david-duke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0717donald-trump-david-duke.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"529\">  <\/p>\n<p>The House voted on Tuesday to <strong>condemn as racist President Trump\u2019s attacks against four congresswomen of color<\/strong>, but only after the debate over the president\u2019s language devolved into a bitterly partisan brawl that showcased deep rifts over race, ethnicity and political ideology in the age of Trump.  <\/p>\n<p>The measure, <strong>the first House rebuke of a president in more than 100 years<\/strong>, passed nearly along party lines, 240 to 187, after one of the most polarizing exchanges on the floor in recent times. Only four Republicans and the House\u2019s lone independent, Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, voted with all Democrats to condemn the president.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there\u2019s no room for racism,\u201d said Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, an icon of the civil rights movement.  <\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans were just as adamant in their defense of Mr. Trump: \u201cWhat has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,\u201d said Representative Dan Meuser, Republican of Pennsylvania. \u201cThis ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.\u201d&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-tweet-house-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I like the way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tjVmyfp02qI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> tells the story.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tjVmyfp02qI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why did all but four Congressional Republicans vote to mark themselves as actively complicit in their Fuhrer&#8217;s racism? They needed a badge with which to proclaim their own racism, when their sheets and hoods are in the laundry.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich is a racist.&nbsp; How racist is he?&nbsp; Every bone in his body is racist, down to and including his imaginary bone spurs.&nbsp; He has received the official endorsement of the KKK and refused to disavow it.&nbsp; Yesterday the House of Representatives voted to condemn him for his <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/condemned\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}