Lindsey Graham Tears Apart Trump’s Anti-Muslim Tweets: ‘The Antidote to Terrorism Is Not Racism and Bigotry’
Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared on CNN this morning and absolutely tore apart President Donald Trump’s retweeting of those anti-Muslim videos yesterday, noting that his actions could do harm to the fight against terror.
“I think it was a very unhelpful decision by the president to embrace a right wing website in Britain that markets in Islamophobia and religious bigotry and give it credibility,” he said. “One thing I’ve learned after 42 trips to the region is that the antidote to terrorism is not racism and religious bigotry.”
“When you embrace religious bigotry, when you say that all Muslims are the same, then you’re undercutting our effort to win the war.”
Graham continued to frame Trump’s impulsive Twitter behavior as a net negative for America’s continued efforts to combat ISIS and other terror organizations.
“I think it was very inappropriate for the president of the United States to retweet these videos because they just breed hatred and contempt,” he said. “The way to fight the war against radical Islam is to side with those who reject the radical elements of their own faith, not cast the entire faith with a broad brush, and I just cannot tell you how big a miscalculation this is. This is embracing people who are religious bigots.”
“The antidote to terrorism is not racism and religious bigotry. The antidote to terrorism is going after the terrorists in cooperation with those in the faith who reject terrorism.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted yesterday that the videos behind this incident may even be fake, though she stated that, in the end, it doesn’t matter.
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