Donald Trump posts utterly deranged late night retweet from convicted criminal
Yesterday we saw a far-right lunatic carry out a deadly terrorist attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. It came at the end of a brutal week which also included an attempted shooting at a black church, and the attempted assassination of fourteen of the most prominent figures in the Democratic Party. With mainstream Americans shaken to their core, Donald Trump clearly couldn’t sleep last night either – but it was for an entirely different reason.
Trump decided to stay up late watching game four of the World Series. Fine, so be it. At this point America is arguably better off when he’s not even trying to do the job anyway. But just before midnight, at the end of a day marked by violence and tragedy and vigils, Trump decided to go on a Twitter rant about the managerial decisions made by one of the baseball teams involved in the game. Then he made it worse. Much worse.
Moments later, Donald Trump decided to retweet a convicted criminal named Dinesh D’Souza, whose claim to fame is inventing deranged far-right conspiracy theories, along with easily disproven fictional versions of American history. Trump certainly knows that D’Souza is a convicted criminal, because Trump recently pardoned the guy. The mere act of retweeting this criminal freak was offensive enough, before getting to the actual contents of the tweet.
Here’s what Donald Trump retweeted: “When Lincoln, an outsider and a Republican, won the election of 1860, all hell broke loose and Democrats went berserk. Sound familiar?” It’s difficult to know where to start in dissecting this dangerously insane sentence. First, Lincoln was a liberal. Second, the Civil War was not fought on Republican vs Democrat fault lines. Third, Trump and his criminal sidekick are clearly blaming current Democrats for the fact that Trump’s biggest fan and the far-right lunatics are out there trying to murder everyone. Trump belongs in a rubber room inside a maximum security prison.
