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RSS FeedsTrump often has vivid words for victims. Not for the woman killed in Charlottesville: Analysis
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

15 august 2017 03:40:13

 
Trump often has vivid words for victims. Not for the woman killed in Charlottesville: Analysis
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


WASHINGTON—Like Heather Heyer, the paralegal and protester killed in Charlottesville, Kate Steinle was 32 when she died.“Look at Kate. Beautiful Kate,” Donald Trump said, his voice softening, in a campaign speech last year. “Illegal immigrant, five times came across the border, and shot Kate.”Trump then lamented the murder of Jamiel Shaw, 17, by another man in the country illegally. “An unbelievable young boy,” Trump said. “Good student. Was going to go to college on a football scholarship. Maybe Stanford. And he was shot in the face three times by a guy that did it because he was just told to shoot somebody.”Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald TrumpWhen he wants to be, this president is a vivid storyteller. Talking about crimes committed by Muslims and undocumented Hispanics, Trump has used evocative adjectives and anecdotes to emphasize the depravity of the offenders and the humanity of the victims.An alleged white supremacist is accused of killing Heyer on Saturday. On Monday, Trump described her with just one generic word.“Young.”After two days of withering criticism from across the political spectrum, Trump finally condemned white supremacists. In a White House attempt at a do-over for his widely denounced first try on Saturday, Trump called racism “evil” and identified “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups” as “repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”But the rhetorical shift appeared to many observers as begrudging, a half-hearted attempt to quell the furor that erupted when he faulted bigotry and violence “on many sides.” “It’s pretty clear he didn’t want to do this, or he would have done it before today,” Cody Keenan, who was chief presidential speech writer to Barack Obama, said in a message to the Star.In a marked departure from post-tragedy conventi ...


 
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