Mark MacKinnon is the Globe and Mail’s senior international correspondent based in London, so it was with a seasoned journalist’s keenly honed outsider perspective that he watched Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday night.
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/771175673725452288
While most viewers saw a group of “Angel Moms” take the stage to represent those murdered by criminals in the country illegally, MacKinnon saw the campaign stop transform into a hate rally.
https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/771176062185201666
Wow … did he really just tweet that on stage were moms who “say” their kids were murdered? Are we seriously going into Hillary Clinton territory and suggesting that the mothers of dead children “may not fully recall” how they died? Someone, please make sure we’re not hallucinating.
cc: @AceofSpadesHQ
The parents "say" their kids were murdered https://t.co/eXsZj1lYMF
— Nieds Dead Horse (@NDH_j_m_f) September 1, 2016
Yeah, the moms are just lying about that, right? https://t.co/7mvdd9eFBy
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 1, 2016
@kerpen @markmackinnon because talking about how your kid was murdered by a criminal is….hate? #LiberalLogic #TrumpAZ
— BoxAndOne ?? (@MPShrike) September 1, 2016
No, it’s hate because Trump was talking about deporting illegals instead of passing additional gun control legislation, stupid. We’re talking Logic 101 here.
Nearly all those on stage with Trump said their relatives were *shot.* Suggestions of walls & deportations cheered. Gun control unmentioned.
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 1, 2016
See? Hate. It’s not as though he’d invited the Mothers of the Movement to prove that institutionalized racism was responsible for their children’s deaths.
I seem to remember Hillary's convention including moms of guys who tried to kill cops.
— Rick Moore (@RickMoore) September 1, 2016
Well, they said that their kids had been killed by cops. Who knows if it’s true? It would take, like, a professional journalist to get to the bottom of that mystery.
Not saying Angel Moms lying, just don't know their stories, what's been proven in court. Standard journo practice to attribute statements /1
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 1, 2016
Please, tell us more about this “standard journalistic practice,” right after we take an epic rip off of this bong to clear our minds.
Re: Trump's speech, hate = blaming entire class of people (in this case illegal immigrants) for everything from lack of jobs to terrorism /2
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 1, 2016
So the mothers who say that illegal immigrants killed their children were just tools to incite hatred of all illegal immigrants, when they should have been used as tools to demand gun control.
Was it hate, then, that motivated Sen. Chris Murphy to blame an entire class of people — all Republicans in Congress — for the Pulse nightclub massacre because they “decided to sell weapons to ISIS”?
Not my country. But nonetheless terrifying to watch what's happening.
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 1, 2016
Yes, it is terrifying to watch what’s happening to standard journalistic practice in this country and abroad.
stay in London. We got this .
— Ms.G?? (@KristinG70) September 1, 2016
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