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Trump
mente todos os dias
Direcção Editorial
17/09/2016 –
PÚBLICO
Os
jornalistas americanos continuam de forma diligente a desmontar os
discursos e as mentiras de Trump.
Obama tem razão
numa coisa: em política — sobretudo na americana, mas não só,
basta pensar em Viktor Orbán — mudaram os standards do que
consideramos “normal”. “Todos os dias, Donald Trump diz coisas
que dantes eram consideradas suficientes para que uma pessoa deixasse
de ser presidenciável. Mas porque as repete, e repete, os
jornalistas desistem e dizem: ‘Ah, bem... pois... OK.”
É verdade a parte
da mentira. Onde Obama não tem razão é em relação à falta de
resiliência dos media. Apesar da avassaladora quantidade de mentiras
que Trump atira para a nossa cara todas as semanas, os jornalistas
americanos continuam a desmontar de forma diligente os seus
discursos.
Esta sexta-feira
aconteceu de novo. Ao fim de cinco anos, Trump disse finalmente que
não tem dúvidas sobre onde Obama nasceu. "O Presidente nasceu
nos Estados Unidos, ponto final.” Os jornais noticiaram o facto mas
denunciaram também que, agarrada a esta frase, veio outra mentira:
“Foi Hillary Clinton e a sua campanha em 2008 que começaram a
controvérsia birther [o movimento que questiona a nacionalidade de
Obama]. Eu só a terminei.” O Huffington Post foi directo ao
assunto: “Trump lança nova mentira da conspiração birther”. Na
notícia, recuperam, um por um, os tweets que o candidato escreveu
sobre o tema. O primeiro é de 2011: “Feito na América? Obama
chamou ‘terra natal’ ao Havai”. A 18 de Maio do ano seguinte
regressa: “Vamos ver com atenção o certificado de nascimento de
Obama”. E de novo em Julho. E em Agosto. E no Verão de 2014
quando, ainda não cansado, lançou um desafio: “Atenção a todos
os hackers: vocês que pirateiam tudo e mais alguma coisa podem por
favor piratear os registos universitários de Obama e verificar
‘lugar de nascimento?’”. No último tweet, uns meses depois,
Trump escreve: “Obama também inventou o seu próprio certificado
de nascimento depois de ter sido pressionado pela nossa campanha a
mostrá-lo”.
Qual é a nova
mentira? Hillary Clinton não lançou dúvidas sobre se Obama tinha
nascido nos EUA. A história remonta a 2008, quando Clinton e Obama
eram rivais nas primárias. Num relatório do estratega de Clinton,
Mark Penn identifica o “background diverso de Obama” – nascido
no Havai, de pai queniano e com infância na Indonésia – como uma
"fragilidade" a explorar na campanha. Na sua análise, Penn
escreve que “não consegue imaginar os EUA a elegerem um presidente
que não é, no seu centro, fundamentalmente americano no pensamento
e valores”. Para se distanciar dessa “narrativa multicultural”,
o estratega aconselha Clinton a dizer, em todos os seus discursos,
que nascera "no meio da América, numa família de classe média,
a meio do século passado”. Em nenhum momento Penn questiona a
cidadania de Obama. Já agora, este memo é público desde 2008.
Numa acção de
campanha esta semana, Obama queixava-se: “Trump diz: ‘Fui contra
a guerra no Iraque’. Bom, não foi.". E pediu: "Nós não
podemos, de repente, encarar isto como se fosse um reality show."
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Trump
hints at Clinton's assassination again after retracting 'birther'
theory
In
a sometimes bizarre speech, GOP nominee went off-script to call for
his rival’s bodyguards to ‘disarm immediately’ – adding,
‘Let’s see what happens to her
‘Take their guns
away!’ Donald Trump demanded to loud cheers during a section of the
speech.
‘Take their guns
away!’ Donald Trump demanded to loud cheers during a section of the
speech. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
Richard Luscombe in
Miami
Saturday 17
September 2016 02.38 BST
After a bruising day
dominated by his non-apology for promoting the “birther”
conspiracy theory, Donald Trump attempted to regain control of the
direction of his presidential campaign at a Miami rally in which he
appeared to hint at the assassination of Hillary Clinton.
In a sometimes
bizarre 45-minute speech on Friday night, which opened with the
unfurling of a new “Les Deplorables” battlefield flag backdrop,
the Republican nominee went off-script to call for his opponent’s
bodyguards to “disarm immediately” – adding, “Let’s see
what happens to her.”
“Take their guns
away!” Trump demanded to loud cheers during a section of the speech
in which he said his rival wanted to “destroy your second
amendment” and he accused Clinton of “arrogance and entitlement”.
In a statement,
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook denounced Trump’s comments:
“Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has a pattern
of inciting people to violence. Whether this is done to provoke
protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an
unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in
Chief.”
“But we’ve seen
again and again that no amount of failed resets can change who Donald
Trump is.”
The call to leave
the Democratic nominee protected by unarmed secret service agents,
first made by Trump in May, raised eyebrows as a reversion to the
undisciplined candidate of the primaries rather than the more
scripted one of recent weeks. Trump also suggested in August that if
Clinton was elected president, “the second amendment people”
might be able to stop her from appointing judges. That statement was
widely interpreted as a veiled assassination threat as well at the
time.
It came hours after
Trump finally admitted that “President Barack Obama was born in the
United States, period” after five years of promoting conspiracy
theories that the first African American president was born in Kenya.
However, the Republican nominee did not offer a mea culpa for his
past statements and also falsely accused Hillary Clinton’s 2008
presidential campaign of initially spreading rumors about Obama’s
birth. Trump made the comments at what was initially billed as a
press conference in a downtown Washington hotel. However, the
Republican nominee did not take questions.
Speaking to the
Black Women’s Agenda symposium in Washington, Clinton excoriated
Trump for spreading the birther gospel. “For five years he has led
the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president,”
she said. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie.
“He is feeding
into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias, that lurks in our
country. Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, and
Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology.”
Trump did break some
new ground on foreign policy on Friday as he attempted to appeal to
Miami’s large populations of Cuban-Americans and Venezuelans.
Attacking President
Obama for “weakness” over his administration’s conciliatory new
approach to Havana, Trump promised to “stand with the Cuban people
in their fight against communist oppression”, a stance that drew
applause from hard-line Cuban-Americans in the audience.
“The president’s
one-sided deal for Cuba benefits only the Castro regime,” he said.
“But all the concessions that Obama granted were done through
executive order, which means the next president can reverse them. And
that is what I will do unless the Castro regime meets our demands.
They include religious freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing
of political prisoners. Am I right?”
Trump also addressed
problems in Venezuela, which he said had been “run into the ground”
by socialists. Appealing specifically to the sizable Venezuelan
community in and around the neighborhood of Doral, home of his Trump
Doral golf resort, he said: “Miami is full of hard-working
Venezuelans. The next president must stand with all people oppressed
in our hemisphere.” At past rallies, Trump has often been prone to
suggesting, if elected, Clinton would turn the United States into
Venezuela.
Mostly, however,
Trump’s speech relied on the familiar themes of attacking Clinton’s
“lies and corruption”; supporting the nation’s veterans and
rebuilding the “depleted” military; repealing Obamacare and
“making deals” that would create jobs in “unbelievable
numbers”, saying “American hands will rebuild this nation”.
Yet despite the
enthusiastic reception, and poll numbers giving Trump his first lead
in Florida since early August, Trump has work to do in Miami-Dade,
the only one of Florida’s 67 counties the Republican nominee failed
to win in the party’s March primary. From former Florida governor
Jeb Bush to Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and Congresswoman Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, several among the city’s influential Republican
leaders have all said they cannot support Trump in November.
After a mauling
earlier in the day over the “birther” issue from the
Congressional Black Caucus, Trump also made sure to reference his
visit Friday afternoon to Little Haiti, a predominantly black area of
Miami that he said had been let down by Clinton and overlooked by
Democrats for years. He sat down briefly with Haitian-American
leaders at a community center while a handful of protestors carrying
a “Little Haiti says no to Trump’s racism and hate” placard
waited outside.
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Later, during
Trump’s early-evening speech at Miami’s James L Knight Center,
Trump blamed Democrat policies for failures in inner cities and
promised to “bring back jobs”, pitching directly to traditionally
Democratic-leaning black voters.
“Democrats have
run these inner-cities for half a century … and all they have
delivered is more poverty, more crime and failing schools,” he
said.
“These are the
results of the policies embraced by Hillary Clinton. If she’s
elected the inner-cities will get nothing but more suffering and
crime and pain and heartache. To the African American people in the
community, what do you have to lose?”
Ben Jacobs in
Washington contributed reporting
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