If right-wing nutcases attack, then it is Trump’s fault since his rhetoric must have incited them.
If left-wing nutcases attack, then it is also Trump’s fault. His policies and rhetoric are so infuriating that they “forced” a response.
If a Progressive/Socialist/Democrat gets wet because he/she/they/fae/e/ey/ae/per/ve/xe/ze/zie got stuck out in the rain without an umbrella, it is Trump’s fault. Trump’s tweets so are so enraging that they make people forget things. Either that or climate change, which is Trump’s fault as well.
That is a bit of hyperbole. If Trump made a similar statement it would be determined to be a “lie” by liberal “fact-checkers”.
On the other hand, consider the often reported factoid is that “hate crimes” are way up because of Donald Trump. Reported hate crimes may be up, but many turn out to be fake:
A researcher concluded that only one third of alleged hate-crimes proved to be genuine:
Mr. Reilly eventually compiled a database of 346 hate-crime allegations and determined that less than a third were genuine. Turning his attention to the hoaxes, he put together a data set of more than 400 confirmed cases of fake allegations that were reported to authorities between 2010 and 2017. He allows that the exact number of false reports is probably unknowable, but what can be said “with absolute confidence is that the actual number of hate crime hoaxes is indisputably large,” he writes. “We are not speaking here of just a few bad apples.”
Of course reports of fake hate crimes are also Trump’s fault since media reports have hyped hate allegations since Trump won the election.
Nope, but it would be nice if Trump or Republicans or Trumps worshippers would once in a while admit that the rhetoric spread may be part of the cause of some of the recent events.
the “surge”. That’s cute.