Yahoo News Trump's response to Barcelona attack? A fake story about bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
The president of the United States just advocated for the execution of Muslim prisoners by firing at them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
He did so by doing something he's done before — reiterating a totally disproved internet tale about a massacre.
In the story — which again, is false — U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing uses the blood of pigs, considered impure in Islam, to cover the bullets he used to kill 50 Muslim prisoners in the Philippines in the early 1900s.
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Trump's tweet followed on the heels of an extremist attack in Barcelona, Spain, that reportedly left at least 12 dead and dozens injured after a van smashed into a crowd.
Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017
Trump first spoke about this internet rumor at a campaign rally in South Carolina, though his tale was slightly different then.
Hahaha. The first time Trump told this Islamophobic lie, he said the fake massacre deterred terror for 25 years. Now up to 35! pic.twitter.com/fgzIZA7ZwN
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2017
Trump first told that Pershing story in SC in Feb 2016, a period when he had just won NH and made increasing authoritarian statements
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 17, 2017
Historians *have* studied this. They've repeatedly shown it's a lie.https://t.co/YzDnMMWZIEhttps://t.co/DXn0eANmsuhttps://t.co/eQ348fy6Yg
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 17, 2017
It’s the Drunk Uncle Email Forward Presidency, you guys. pic.twitter.com/JVHjDw6sWK
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) August 17, 2017
The President should have to start all his tweets with, "Fwd: fwd: fwd: Fwd: fwd: fwd: Fwd: fwd: Fwd: fwd: fwd: Fwd: fwd: fwd: Fwd: fwd:"
— Matt Goldich (@MattGoldich) August 17, 2017
Trump is referring to an apocryphal story he's used to lead crowds in cheering mass execution and defiling bodies https://t.co/vZe5A2O0dR https://t.co/LVYETUKxWV
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 17, 2017
At least 12 lives lost, each with futures and family.
Trump is tweeting a debunked myth about pig's blood (what is it about him and blood?)— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) August 17, 2017
In 45 minutes, Trump went from “terrorism is bad, we love you" to “let’s think about killing Muslims with bullets covered in pig’s blood."
— Nick Wing (@nickpwing) August 17, 2017
Trump yesterday: I like to wait for facts before speaking, unlike YOU people.
Trump Today: Pershing! pig blood! radical islamic terror!— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) August 17, 2017
One more day in the work week.
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