VP Harris calls Trump lies and threats against Springfield's Haitians a "crying shame" in eloquent impassioned statement

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...excerpts of VP Harris' NABJ discussion remarks:

"It's a crying shame. Literally."

"I know that people are deeply troubled by what is happening to that community in Springfield, Ohio, and it’s got to stop.”

"I mean, my heart breaks for this community. You know there were children, elementary school children" who had to be evacuated on what was supposed to be school picture day... "A whole community put in fear."

"The American people deserve, and I do believe, want better than this."

“There are far too many people in our country right now who are not feeling safe. Not everybody has Secret Service. Members of the LGBTQ community don’t feel safe right now, immigrants or people with an immigrant background don’t feel safe right now. Women don’t feel safe right now."

"When you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand how much your words have meaning... Let’s turn the page and chart a new way forward and say you can’t have that microphone again."

watch full discussion here:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?538450-1/vp-harris-discussion-black-journalists-philadelphia

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1. Of Course, the Apologists for and Enablers of Donald Trump Are Going To Scream, "Hypocrisy!"

And point out that Kamala Harris baited Donald Trump into saying what he did on the debate stage the other night. But the truth is that if the leader of the free world can't take responsibility for his own words and actions, he better find another job. As Harry Truman said so aptly, "The buck stops here!"

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2. they may well be ignorant enough to believe that calling out threats, violence, racism, and bigotry is what's divisive

...instead of the actual threats, violence, racism, and bigotry.

But most of us know the difference.

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3. A crying shame, yes BUT

DOMESTIC TERRORISM is what it really is. Especially if you keep provoking it even AFTER an entire community is living in terror because of your lies.

For which they BOTH belong behind bars, instead of running for the land's highest offices.

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4. it starts with voters denying Trump the office.

...we can't wait for the courts.

The VP is leading here by reminding the rest of us of our better selves, and what Americans should expect from their president.

Like she says in her rallies: Courts will sort all that out... presidents aren't actually prosecutors.

We need to do our jobs and vote Kamala Harris into office, and leave Trump's legal accountability to the judgment of courts and juries of our citizens.