Trump, back in the news - again 8-11-2016

11, August 2016                Trump, back in the news - again                     

Trump’s remarks during a rally in North Carolina slyly hinting to his rabid supporters that it was perhaps time to conclude the presidential race by ‘taking out’ his rival – is beyond the pale. 

His careless remarks were met with predictable outrage. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted, "Don’t treat this as a political misstep. It’s an assassination threat, .  .  . Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt  commented Trump’s rhetoric, "may provide inspiration for those bent on bloodshed."

The U.S. editor of Israeli Haaretz, tweeted, "People who remember the incitement that led to Rabin’s assassination will find Trump’s rhetoric hauntingly familiar." See Amos Gitai mesmerizing film ‘Rabin, the last Day’ who argues the current Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu conducted a similar campaign to Trump’s and is ‘morally culpable for the 1995 assassination’.

Trump should heed the New York Daily News’s call to end his campaign. The GOP should stiffen their collective spines and withdraw their endorsement. His campaign has degenerated from offensive to reckless to criminal. Trump can no longer temper his remarks. He craves the adulation of his misguided supporters and feels compelled to win their continued support with more and more incendiary comments stoking violence. His latest diatribe accusing President Obama policies of being responsible for the birth of ISIS is laughable. It was President George Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq which triggered the armed  Sunni insurrection.