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Opinion | Who’s playing politics now?
They argue that there should still be talks on gun control, but that it's inappropriate while there are still bodies being cleared from the massacre. It's pretty bad when The Washington Post is shitting on Hillary Clinton and praising Trump for their responses.
Imagine for a moment what would have happened if, in his Monday statement on the Las Vegas shooting, President Trump had praised the police who ran toward the gunfire and saved so many lives, and then said: “And for all those who have been taking a knee to protest the police, shame on you. On Sunday, you slander them, but then on Monday, you need them. The police deserve our respect every day.”
Heads would have exploded — and rightly so. His critics would have pointed out that workers still had not removed all the bodies from the crime scene, and yet he was already injecting politics into this tragedy. The president’s job is to unite the country, they would have said, not divide us.
Of course, Trump did not say anything of the sort. His statement Monday was moving and appropriate. The great irony is that it was Democrats — those constantly outraged by Trump responding inappropriately to crises and dividing the country — who responded to the Las Vegas shooting like partisan hacks.
They argue that there should still be talks on gun control, but that it's inappropriate while there are still bodies being cleared from the massacre. It's pretty bad when The Washington Post is shitting on Hillary Clinton and praising Trump for their responses.