they are pretty much saying they have to stop incitement of violence by inciting violence themselves! While Wallace included the qualifier, “in the case of Islamic extremists,” in her rant, it’s clear that she lumps former president Trump and his supporters in a category of dangerous domestic terrorists who need to be dealt with harshly. “How does Mitch McConnell, who understands that the way you root out terrorism is to take on-in the case of Islamic terrorism-kill those who incite it-how does he not vote to convict someone that he said on the floor of the Senate incited an insurrection?” she asked the MSNBC panelists. “Mitch McConnell was in the Senate then, he was in the Senate after 9-11 too,” Wallace noted, before arguing that McConnell knows better than anybody that the way you “root out terrorism” is to “kill those who incite it.” Somehow, to Wallace’s way of thinking, this is a material fact in the case against Trump. While admitting that the policy was “controversial,” the anchor went on to note that United States citizens were killed by drone strikes ordered by then-president Obama “for the crime of inciting violence, inciting terrorism.”Īnwar Al-Awlaki, a Yemeni- American imam was killed by a drone strike on September 30, 2011, and his son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old U.S. Wallace brought up the Bush/Obama era policy of droning suspected terrorists overseas, which she described as “attacking terrorism at its root.” “Domestic terrorism carried out in the ideology of and around this belief that the election was fraudulent, that the Covid restrictions are unnecessary-all of those ideologies pushed by Donald Trump.” “There is until the end of April a persistent threat of domestic extremism,” Wallace said. Wallace described the widely held beliefs that the 2020 election was rigged and that draconian Covid restrictions are unnecessary, as “ideologies” that incite domestic terrorism. Wallace, who served the Bush White House as Communications Director in 20, made the comments during an MSNBC panel discussion about the impeachment trial of former president Trump. This article was written when The F Word was known by its original title.MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday likened President Trump and millions of his supporters to domestic terrorists while fondly reminiscing about the days when American citizens overseas were killed by drone strikes during the global war on terror. There's little meat, loads of fat and way too much sugar. Fill the hollow with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam, and rashers of fried bacon. Take an Italian loaf, cover the crust in butter, scoop out the inside. They make up comedy names for Cool Whip, go nuts over the power of The Princess Bride, settle finally on Fool's Gold, the favourite sandwich of Elvis Presley, as their in-joke of choice. Wallace and Chantry's small talk bubbles on. Then a character will deliver a line like "All this love shit's complicated" and your heart slams shut. You relax and open up and start enjoying yourself. Elan Mastai's script incites cynics to give in, to let romantic possibility work its magic. Adam Driver pops up as Wallace's slobby flatmate, Rafe Spall is the unfortunate lunk standing in the way of true love.
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