Thursday, February 02, 2017

Trump: Man who lost family in Holocaust is crying 'fake tears' over Muslim ban

Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson) · Monday, January 30, 2017, 1:43 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer choked up on Sunday while talking about Donald Trump’s monstrous Muslim ban, leading to a predictably tasteless attack from Trump: Schumer, he said, was crying “fake tears.”

“'Cause I know him,” Trump added of the top Senate Democrat. “I don't see him as crier. If he is, he's a different man. There's about a 5 percent chance it was real. But I think they were fake tears.”

What’s sick is that Trump may actually think he’s praising Schumer here. Trump claims that the last time he cried was when he was a baby. About that:

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Not crying at death of parents, brother, family doesn't mean you're a manly man. It means you're a sociopath. https://t.co/MK8XVdbIX6
— Susan Gardner (@SusanGDailyKos) January 30, 2017
Not only is Schumer a non-sociopath, but he knows very personally where this kind of religious hatred and scapegoating can lead:

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Repeat: Senator Schumer's great-grandmother and 7 of her 9 children were murdered by the Nazis. https://t.co/BswWCIxOlD
— Jennifer Mendelsohn (@CleverTitleTK) January 30, 2017
Schumer’s grandfather lost his mother and seven siblings. That’s the kind of thing you hear about growing up, the kind of lesson that shapes a family. The kind of bone-deep knowledge that makes you cry real tears when you see your own country going down a dangerous road.

But then, Trump doesn’t believe in learning or empathy any more than he’d admit he’s ever cried.

Source
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/zjVtDo8JbtE/-Trump-Man-who-lost-family-in-Holocaust-is-crying-fake-tears-over-Muslim-ban

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