The Trump campaign has disavowed comments made by his Virginia campaign chairman, Corey Stewart. Stewart is Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Prince William county. On Facebook Stewart blamed Democrats for the killing of 5 police officers in Dallas on Thursday,
“Liberal politicians who label police as racists – specifically Hillary Clinton and Virginia Lt. Governor Ralph Northam – are to blame for essentially encouraging the murder of these police officers tonight.”
Stewart is running for Governor next year against Democrat Lt. Governor Ralph Northam.
In another post on Facebook post Stewart said,
“Va. Lt. Governor Ralph Northam and Hillary Clinton are pitting minorities against the police. Whenever there is a police shooting involving a minority, their knee jerk reaction is to allege racism. That is insulting to the men and women in blue who risk their lives to protect ours. But worse, these allegations result in the murder of our police.”
On Friday afternoon in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch Stewart made it clear that he would not retract his comments,
“Absolutely I’m standing by it,” he said. “I’m not backing down at all.”
Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks responded to Stewart’s remarks,
“He does not speak for the campaign and we do not agree.
The Vice Chairman of Trump’s Virginia campaign, radio talk show host and delegate to the national convention in Cleveland, John Fredericks, responded on behalf of the Trump campaign,
“His (Stewart’s) comments are not reflective of Mr. Trump’s position on the Dallas tragedy nor is it indicative of (Trump’s) value system as it relates to this horrific event,”
More on the story here and here.
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[…] Hurts remarks were similar to those made by Prince William County Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Corey Stewart who is also a candidate for Governor in 2017. Stewart blamed Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Ralph Northam, for the Dallas shootings. […]
He’s right.
Sorry, not really but sounds like Cory nailed it
Corey Stewart, thanks for saving me a lot of research on your potential competition. You got my vote. Finally, a VA Republican who is not a Cuckservative.
Don’t back down to the castrated “men” in your party.
well said, beat them with anything and everything multiple times and then get angry and do it again.
Between the shootings in LA and MN and now Dallas, it is certainly becoming complex.
Of course my home girls have a few thoughts about the shootings in LA and MN..
Corey Stewart is correct in that liberal (Democrat) politicians, in order to curry favor with the black community, encourage the false narrative that law enforcement is indiscriminately hunting down black males. There is little doubt that encouraging such dangerous attitudes can lead to the anti-cop violence that we are seeing. However, it is unfair (and irresponsible) to allege that Clinton and Northam “are to blame for essentially encouraging murder.”
Virginia Republicans are lucky to have someone like Stewart running for Governor who not only says what we all know is true, but doesn’t back down when smarmy liberals and enablers like the Bearing Drift crowd start whining.
You can say what you want, but when all the dust clears from this, Stewart will be far and away the frontrunner for 2017 whether the process is a convention or primary.
Your faith is admirable, but I doubt very seriously that it will be rewarded.
Works for me.
I spent the past year on Bearing Drift and have concluded that there is nothing conservative or libertarian about the contributors and certainly not the posters. Frankly, it is far more left and very anti-conservative.
That’s tame compared to some of the crap Trump has uttered. I guess Corey didn’t get the memo that Trump supporters only support bizarre rhetoric when Trump himself says it.
It is kind of ironic that the Trump campaign is disavowing these remarks after all the stuff Trump has said. I’d call it like “the pot calling the kettle black”, but I’d probably be called a racist.
The disavowal doesn’t really make much sense in light of the well established anti-police rhetoric of the left. I have to wonder what the intent of this was and whether the Trump spokesmen actually understood the questions. When you deal with the NY Times, things become weird.
I disagree with blaming anyone other than the criminal for the crime. So I disagree with Corey’s comments. But might I add the Liberals were perfectly happy to blame Sarah Palin when Gabby Giffords was shot. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rep-gabrielle-giffords-blood-sarah-palin-hands-putting-cross-hair-district-article-1.149099