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Deprivations - Trump, Racist Conflicts, Scaramucci and the Devil

12/8/2017

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On 13th August, the BBC News website reported violence in a USA city called Charlottesville where a car deliberately drove into a rally of anti-racist protesters:

  • One person has died and 19 others were injured when a car rammed a crowd of people opposing a far-right rally in the US state of Virginia, police say.
  • Earlier, street brawls erupted between white nationalists planning to attend the march and counter-protesters.
  • The mayor of Charlottesville, where the now-cancelled rally was taking place, said he was "heartbroken" at the death.
  • President Donald Trump has condemned the violence, and local officials have declared a state of emergency.
  • The "Unite the Right" march was called to protest against plans to remove a statue of a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
  • In addition to those injured in the car incident, the Charlottesville Police Department said 15 were injured in other violence related to the far-right march.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ upworld-us-canada-40912509]
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So it seems the US far right are becoming increasingly affected by the unstable events around the world and influenced by Pres. Trump's election.  After all several far right supporters explicitly supported Trump during his election campaign in 2016.

Of course many people have expressed Trump didn't clearly identify these racist groups when he condemned violence.  By contrast his daughter Ivanka Trump did on her twitter account:

  • There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis.

Trump's position is increasingly under fire as people question the nature of his presidency.  Indeed he and his advisors have also been criticised during an interview with Anthony Scaramucci on the same day.  Scaramucci was, of course, formerly Trump's White House communications director.  (He was appointed July 21, 2017 and then dismissed on July 31, 2017.)  During this interview: 

  • He said there were "elements" within the White House trying to eject Mr Trump, and he had "named some names".
  • Mr Scaramucci spoke to ABC News for the first time since being sacked last month - after just 10 days in office.
  • It followed a phone recording in which he strongly attacked then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
  • He also directed profanity-laced insults at Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
  • Mr Scaramucci said he had thought the interview was off the record, and he had "paid the consequences for that conversation".

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40917640]

It sounding increasingly like Trump's presidency will become untenable in the near future.

One can only hope that the increasing instability of US relations with North Korea and China won't become too dangerous whilst he's still president.  The consequences are too disturbing.

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