Jamal Khashoggi, Andrew Gillum, Trump: 3 Stories You Should Read 10/23/2018
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In the category of: At least he’s consistent.
Trump’s midterm campaign of fear
In the category of: Racists are out of the closet for real now.
Disgustingly Racist Robocall Goes Out Against Andrew Gillum In Florida
A neo-Nazi group in Idaho is behind the calls, and it’s gone after the Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate before.
A white supremacist website in Idaho is sending out an extremely racist robocall against Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.
Voters in Florida received the robocall on Tuesday, and HuffPost obtained audio of the recording. Speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect, an actor pretends to be Gillum, saying: “Well hello there. I is the Negro Andrew Gillum, and I be asking you to make me governor of this here state of Florida.”
Black spiritual music plays in the background, and monkey screeches occasionally to refer to Gillum, who is the mayor of Tallahassee.
The ad says Gillum’s health care plan will be quite cheap, because he’ll just give chicken feet to people as medicine. It talks about how Jewish people are going to vote for him, because Jews are “the ones that been putting Negroes in charge over the white folk, just like they done after the Civil War.”
In the category of: Is anyone surprised??
Khashoggi killing a ‘political murder’: Erdogan
Turkish president says the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned by Saudi officials days in advance.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul was planned by Saudi officials days in advance.
Addressing legislators from his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Tuesday, Erdogan detailed Khashoggi’s disappearance and murder but stopped short of accusing Saudi royals of the “savage” killing that has caused global outrage.
“On September 28, Khashoggi arrived at the Saudi Arabian consulate for him to sort out his wedding paperwork,” Erdogan said during the speech in the Turkish parliament in the capital, Ankara.
“It seems that at that time they [Saudi Arabian officials] started to plan a roadmap for his murder.”
He added that some Saudi officials left Turkey and traveled to Saudi Arabia, “indicating they planned the murder”.
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