Parkland Student Emma Gonzalez on Trump’s FBI Tweet: ‘Best Way to Deal With This Is to Ignore Him’
Parkland student Emma Gonzalez––who delivered that impassioned speech yesterday calling out President Trump and the NRA––talked on MSNBC this afternoon about young people taking action in lieu of elected officials actually doing anything.
Gonzalez and Sofie Whitney talked to Alex Witt about the March for Our Lives being set up for next month pressuring lawmakers to actually take action on guns.
So far, Gonzalez said, she has not yet heard from government officials about their plans to deal with this issue. Whitney said they’re going to Tallahassee with many of their classmates to talk to their state representatives in a few days.
During the interview, Witt brought up the President’s tweet attacking the FBI in the Russia probe by invoking the shooting:
Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018
Gonzalez said this in response:
“I think the best way to deal with this is to ignore him. He’s not… he’s not being, um––I think we can all agree that the things that President Trump tweets is… nothing really has a lasting impact, unless it’s a negative lasting impact, on the people around us. At this point especially, the things that he mentions when he brings up talk of the FBI––he’s trying to blame somebody and we can’t let him do that. So the best thing for us to do is to ignore him and to continue fighting our fight, the fight that he refuses to acknowledge. The fact that he refused to even tweet the word ‘gun’ in any of his tweets, and yet he insists on tweeting. And he insists on blaming the Democrats for something that he did wrong.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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