So, yesterday Donald Trump said at rally in Florida that terrorists like alleged NYC/NJ bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami should have “speedy but fair trials and we must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people”…
Trump on the NY/NJ bombing suspect: “His punishment will not be what it once would have been. What a sad situation.” pic.twitter.com/cYFVN6G6gI
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 19, 2016
But liberals, naturally, were OUTRAGED and took Trump’s statement to mean the opposite of what he said:
Mr. Khan was right. Donald Trump has clearly never read the Constitution. https://t.co/yRLP52pr8b
— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 20, 2016
This is stomach churning. https://t.co/3AnonoRU42
— digby (@digby56) September 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/778077260838559744
https://twitter.com/alex/status/778011367710138368
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/777970357370224644
Alrighty then, but where was this outrage when President Obama was drone-striking American citizens Anwar Al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman without a trial?
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/777980604247834624
Obama has bragged about killing Al-Awlaki in the past, too:
At the VFW, Obama touts that Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen he ordered killed in a drone strike, is "gone."
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) July 21, 2015
To a lesser extent, liberals were angry at Sen. Lindsey Graham for saying that Rahami should be held as an enemy combatant before he receives a fair trial:
Lindsey Graham wants NY bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant https://t.co/lULigql6oF pic.twitter.com/ZcRq8pI72g
— McClatchyDC (@McClatchyDC) September 19, 2016
He's a US citizen, on US soil https://t.co/RZi7AyHsvX
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 19, 2016
And the same argument applies:
Does he want Obama to drone strike him or what? https://t.co/0PDdEegul7
— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) September 19, 2016
Exactly. Liberals and members of the media who sat in silence of President Obama’s actions don’t have a leg to stand on now that they want to criticize Donald Trump.
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