Trump Attacks Angela Merkel During 5-Tweet Twitter Tantrum Like An Enemy Of The State

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Donald Trump and his rabid fan base of white nationalists are not unique to the world; instead, they are part of a trend happening in many countries where white people of European heritage are convincing others that brown people are coming into “their” countries bent on murdering and raping every white person in sight. While the U.S. is not alone in this, we are unique in having a leadership that joins in.

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When Trump isn’t blaming Democrats for his cruel new policy of separating migrant children from their families at the border, he’s convincing his followers that roving bands of undocumented immigrants are all MS-13 gang members and that sanctuary cities are crime-ridden wastelands. This is not a new or unique tactic. It’s also happening in Germany, and Trump began pushing the same lies as a presidential candidate and uses the lies about Germany as justification.

While a raging debate over German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration stance on asylum for refugees rages, the white nationalist groups continue to push a lie that violent crime, and crime overall, is rising to out-of-control levels because of immigration. This is not the case.

According to The Independent:

‘The new government figures show that 5.76 million crimes were reported in 2017. As a percentage of the population, crime is now at its lowest level for 30 years.

‘Despite the significant overall fall in crime, the figures also revealed a rise in antisemitic attacks, which have gone up by 2.5 per cent with a total of 1,504 incidents in 2017. Mr Seehofer said this was partly attributable to “imported antisemitism”, referring to attacks carried out by foreigners, however, this portion was vastly outweighed by attacks on Jews by far-right German nationals, which accounted for 94 per cent of antisemitic attacks.’

It isn’t immigrants the U.S. or Germany needs to be concerned about. The rise in nationalism and white domestic terrorists are far more of a threat.

Twitter users reminded Trump of this fact and many others. See some of their responses below:

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