Monday, September 26, 2016

Trump Jr. Offers Word Salad Defense Of Anti-Refugee Skittles Tweet

Donald Trump Jr. spoke out Wednesday after facing backlash for a bizarre tweet comparing Syrian refugees to poisonous Skittles, suggesting in an interview with the editorial board of the Deseret News that the actual odds of a refugee carrying out an attack are irrelevant.

Trump told the editorial board of the Utah paper that he stands by his message despite the criticism, arguing that any number of people killed by Syrian refugees would be too many in his estimation. 

"We've seen what's going on in Europe. We can't be naive to that and pretend that's not happening there," Trump said, according to the Deseret News. "If there's one death associated with it because we messed up and we didn't do it right, that's a problem for me."...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-jr-refugee-skittles-tweet-math


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