14 Jul 2016 1:49 pm
Trump Claims He’s Seen Calls For Moment Of Silence For Dallas Shooter
Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday that he witnessed people call for a moment of silence for the man who killed five police officers and wounded eleven other people at a Black Lives Matter rally last week.
Asked by the Fox News host if there was a divide between blacks and whites in America, Trump used this as an example of how “there would seem to be."
“It's getting more and more obvious and it's very sad, very sad,” Trump went on. “When somebody called for a moment of silence to this maniac that shot the five police, you just see what's going on. It's a very, very sad situation.”
There were no media reports about anyone calling for a moment of silence for gunman Micah Johnson, though groups from Congress to the New York Stock Exchange held moments of silence for the victims of last Thursday's mass shooting. Searches on social media for people making such calls also came up short.
Despite this lack of evidence, Trump reiterated the claim at a rally in Westfield, Indiana on Tuesday night, where he criticized Black Lives Matter for holding rallies across the country the weekend after the Dallas shootings.
“The other night you had 11 cities potentially in a blow-up stage,” he said. “Marches all over the United States—and tough marches. Anger. Hatred. Hatred! Started by a maniac!
And some people ask for a moment of silence for him. For the killer!”
One idiot on Twitter is now 'some people?'Donald Trump Claims 'Some People' Called for a Moment of Silence for the Dallas Gunman
Trump has now said at least twice that some people have asked for a moment of silence for the shooter, Micah Johnson, who was killed when a police robot detonated a bomb near him.
So far, ABC News has been able to find one person who posted on two of his social media accounts calling for a moment of silence.
The man's tweet was posted on the evening of July 8, hours after Johnson was killed during a standoff with Dallas police.
The tweet was liked once and retweeted once. The matching Facebook post was liked 14 times.
I guess these are the same 'people' he saw celebrating on 9/11 in New Jersey.
The city of Cleveland is gearing up for what could be a very volatile situation.
I just saw on TV that they are putting up fencing, the courts are going to be staying open late to process people that are arrested, and the hospitals are preparing to handle people that might be injured.
And this jackass is perfectly willing to pour gasoline on the fire, because he thinks that if there is violence in Cleveland that will benefit him politically.
Just when I think he couldn't possibly sink any lower as a human being, the race-baiter does just that.