Trump’s Strange New Attack On Hillary Clinton Echoes White Supremacists

[christiefan915]

In a major foreign policy speech on Monday, which offered few details and many inaccuracies, GOP nominee Donald Trump attacked his Democratic opponent’s stance on immigration and refugees by comparing her to the chancellor of Germany. “Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel,” he said. He fired off two press releases that same day calling Clinton “America’s Merkel,” and took to Twitter to warn of the dangers of #AmericasMerkel.

The line of attack “baffled” political analysts, who wondered why Trump would possibly think referencing a largely-unknown European leader would help him win votes in the United States. A Pew survey last year found that “Germany is not on the radar of many Americans,” with more than a third reporting “no opinion” of Merkel at all. But there is at least one group of Americans well familiar with Merkel, her immigration policies, and her connections to Hillary Clinton: white supremacists.

To white nationalist communities that fervently support Trump, Merkel has been a popular villain. Sites like the Daily Stormer, the White Genocide Project, American Renaissance, and The White Resister have posted constantly about her since the Syrian refugee crisis began escalating earlier this year. They have accused her of making a “deliberate attempt to turn Germany from a majority White country into a minority White country.” They have called her a “crazy childless bitch,” “Anti-White Traitor,” and “patron saint of terrorists.” They have asked in articles about her, “Why would you allow a woman to run a country, unless you were doing it as a joke?”

In fact, Trump’s new line about Clinton wanting to become “America’s Merkel” can be found almost verbatim in these white supremacist forums. “If Hillary takes power she will be to America what Merkel is to Germany,” a member of Stormfront wrote in March. “Hillary Clinton is America’s Angela Merkel,” wrote a commenter on American Renaissance in April.

Less than a year ago, Trump had nothing but effusive praise for Merkel, calling her “fantastic” and “probably the greatest leader in the world today.” Weeks later, after Merkel announced that her country would accept hundreds of thousands of refugees, Trump changed his mind, slamming her for “ruining Germany” and calling her a “catastrophic leader.” This week, he claimed that “crime has risen to levels that no one thought would they would ever see” thanks to Merkel’s refugee policy. But official data shows no increase in crime over the last year, and the number of crimes committed by migrants has declined by more than 18 percent between January and March of this year.

Donald Trump’s campaign did not respond to ThinkProgress’ questions about the origin of his comments on Clinton and Merkel.

https://thinkprogress.org/donald-tru...e50#.awl3a7nro

[Bill]

Well in trumpf's defense this is only the 15th or 20th time he has pandered to the anti-social, right-wing fringe of his party & beyond, give or take..

What is amazing is how stupid it is to keep preaching to the choir there.. He has a lock on that segment of sh*t...

[Legionthecat]

He panders to the loudest voices at his rallies.
That is the extent of what he can understand.
If the loudest voices are racists. That is who Trumpf will play to.

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In a major foreign policy speech on Monday, which offered few details and many inaccuracies, GOP nominee Donald Trump attacked his Democratic opponent’s stance on immigration and refugees by comparing her to the chancellor of Germany. “Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel,” he said. He fired off two press releases that same day calling Clinton “America’s Merkel,” and took to Twitter to warn of the dangers of #AmericasMerkel.

The line of attack “baffled” political analysts, who wondered why Trump would possibly think referencing a largely-unknown European leader would help him win votes in the United States. A Pew survey last year found that “Germany is not on the radar of many Americans,” with more than a third reporting “no opinion” of Merkel at all. But there is at least one group of Americans well familiar with Merkel, her immigration policies, and her connections to Hillary Clinton: white supremacists.

To white nationalist communities that fervently support Trump, Merkel has been a popular villain. Sites like the Daily Stormer, the White Genocide Project, American Renaissance, and The White Resister have posted constantly about her since the Syrian refugee crisis began escalating earlier this year. They have accused her of making a “deliberate attempt to turn Germany from a majority White country into a minority White country.” They have called her a “crazy childless bitch,” “Anti-White Traitor,” and “patron saint of terrorists.” They have asked in articles about her, “Why would you allow a woman to run a country, unless you were doing it as a joke?”

In fact, Trump’s new line about Clinton wanting to become “America’s Merkel” can be found almost verbatim in these white supremacist forums. “If Hillary takes power she will be to America what Merkel is to Germany,” a member of Stormfront wrote in March. “Hillary Clinton is America’s Angela Merkel,” wrote a commenter on American Renaissance in April.

Less than a year ago, Trump had nothing but effusive praise for Merkel, calling her “fantastic” and “probably the greatest leader in the world today.” Weeks later, after Merkel announced that her country would accept hundreds of thousands of refugees, Trump changed his mind, slamming her for “ruining Germany” and calling her a “catastrophic leader.” This week, he claimed that “crime has risen to levels that no one thought would they would ever see” thanks to Merkel’s refugee policy. But official data shows no increase in crime over the last year, and the number of crimes committed by migrants has declined by more than 18 percent between January and March of this year.

Donald Trump’s campaign did not respond to ThinkProgress’ questions about the origin of his comments on Clinton and Merkel.

https://thinkprogress.org/donald-tru...e50#.awl3a7nro

I find it hard to believe that Angela Merkel is still unknown to Americans after the massive migrant crisis which she largely caused. She is looked at very differently over here, ask Danes, Swedes, Greeks or virtually any East European citizens their opinion of her.

[Ralph]

I find it hard to believe that Angela Merkel is still unknown to Americans after the massive migrant crisis which she largely caused. She is looked at very differently over here, ask Danes, Swedes, Greeks or virtually any East European citizens their opinion of her.

She is "unknown" because this political hack said she is unknown. How can you establish a false premise void of projecting a false dichotomy, those who know her v. those who do not? It would take a stupid un-informed kool aid drinking person NOT TO KNOW this individual. Then again....this hack is projecting propaganda toward those who support anything as long as the "free shit" keeps flowing in their direction. Of course the "majority" of Hillary supporters DON'T KNOW just who this individual is...their ignorance is what the left depends upon and its these sheep with their head down in the free shit who this hack is targeting as demonstrated by the text and content.

Hell these grazing sheep could care less about the reality that surrounds them....until...its their time to be sheared or skewered. Being tossed under a political bus is common practice for the left, a sacrifice for the greater good so to speak. My opinion? I project these sheep will only continue to graze on the propaganda fed to them. Its not rocket science....look who we are speaking of........its not like we are speaking of well informed individuals reflecting a tendency to evaluate the reality that surrounds them with an aptitude for critical independent reasoning. Its the HERD/FLOCK that is being addressed.....

BAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[F_Donald_Weldon]

In fact, Trump’s new line about Clinton wanting to become “America’s Merkel” can be found almost verbatim in these white supremacist forums. “If Hillary takes power she will be to America what Merkel is to Germany,” a member of Stormfront wrote in March. “Hillary Clinton is America’s Angela Merkel,” wrote a commenter on American Renaissance in April.

Which should come as a surprise to no one.

[Mott the Hoople]

I find it hard to believe that Angela Merkel is still unknown to Americans after the massive migrant crisis which she largely caused. She is looked at very differently over here, ask Danes, Swedes, Greeks or virtually any East European citizens their opinion of her.

Wow...you Euros must be pathetic at managing immigration if a mere 100,000 immigrants precipitates a crises.

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Wow...you Euros must be pathetic at managing immigration if a mere 100,000 immigrants precipitates a crises.

I am baffled as to where you get your information from!! Germany alone accepted well over one million migrants in 2015 and another very large amount in 2016. Sweden has taken in nearly 200,000 which is an enormous number for a country of less than 10 million people. The area of South Sweden where the migrants invariably end up is smaller than the state of Ohio!

http://america.aljazeera.com/article...-1million.html

[PostmodernProphet]

Wow...you Euros must be pathetic at managing immigration if a mere 100,000 immigrants precipitates a crises.

is that a per city number or is that just the sheep they brought along........

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is that a per city number or is that just the sheep they brought along........

Apparently the Dalai Lama is a white supremacist as well.

http://www.narutoforums.com/threads/...-many.1074493/

[Legion Troll]

Wow...you Euros must be pathetic at managing immigration if a mere 100,000 immigrants precipitates a crises.

Aren't most European countries flyspecks on the map? Ohio is bigger than most of them.

Formerly-great Britain is tiny. Less than 65 million Brit-shits are thought to exist.

[Celticguy]

Largely unknown ?
Very well known and taking huge heat. Brilliant to hitch hrc to her

[Legion Troll]

Largely unknown ? Very well known

Very well-known to white supremacists like you.

[anatta]

I find it hard to believe that Angela Merkel is still unknown to Americans after the massive migrant crisis which she largely caused. She is looked at very differently over here, ask Danes, Swedes, Greeks or virtually any East European citizens their opinion of her.

I'd be surprised also if she wasn't known -although Americans are notoriously unaware of the world beyond our borders.
The comparison is apt -at least to the point of lax legal enforcement of our immigration laws

[anatta]

Apparently the Dalai Lama is a white supremacist as well.

http://www.narutoforums.com/threads/...-many.1074493/

His Holiness would know about how mass Chinese immigration has destroyed Tibetan culture