{"id":115482,"date":"2019-02-03T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115482"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:41:03","slug":"trump-unloads-on-virginia-governor-pushing-infanticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115482","title":{"rendered":"Trump Unloads on Virginia Governor Pushing Infanticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Unforgivable&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams Racist, Late-Term-Abortion-Supporting Democrat VA Governor<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update 2<\/em><\/strong>: After a day on the links with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, President Trump has finally got back to his phone and tweeted a reaction to behavior of Democrat VA Governor Northam:<em>\u00a0&#8220;Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia just stated,<strong>\u00a0&#8216;I believe that I am not either of the people in that photo.&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>This was 24 hours after apologizing for appearing in the picture and after making the most horrible statement on \u201csuper\u201d late term abortion.\u00a0<strong>Unforgivable!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia just stated, \u201cI believe that I am not either of the people in that photo.\u201d This was 24 hours after apologizing for appearing in the picture and after making the most horrible statement on \u201csuper\u201d late term abortion. Unforgivable!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1091858686371344384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And before anyone starts rejecting his call of racism &#8211; remember, Northam admits to more than once wearing boot-polish on his face\u00a0<em>(for a Michael Jackson dance contest where he admitted\u00a0<strong>he did not use much as it was hard to remove &#8211; confirming he had done it before<\/strong>) &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>something that if done by any Republican in America would have prompted screams of anguish and outrage in a deca-panel of CNN&#8217;s &#8220;reporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump wasn&#8217;t finished, taking a jab at<strong><em>\u00a0Northam&#8217;s opponent&#8217;s &#8216;Opposition Research Team&#8217; being sued for &#8220;Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff. If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1091864144071020544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update 1:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Following a press conference to address a racist picture in his medical school yearbook, Virginia Governor Ralph &#8220;Coonman&#8221; Northam has insisted that he is neither the person in blackface or the KKK robes, and has refused to step down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am not and will not excuse the content of the photo. It was offensive, racist and despicable. When my staff showed me the photo in question yesterday, I was seeing it for the first time. I did not purchase the [Eastern Virginia Medical School] yearbook and\u00a0<strong>I was unaware of what was on my page,<\/strong>\u201d Northam said at a press conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserting his foot further in his mouth, Northam admitted that he dressed in blackface\u00a0as\u00a0Michael Jackson during a dance contest<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;That same year, I did participate in a dance contest &#8230; in which I darkened my face as part of a Michael Jackson costume.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Northam further explains why he wore blackface:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;just a little boot polish on my cheeks,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0adding with a smile that &#8220;it was a dance contest. I actually won the contest because I had learned to do the moonwalk&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1091864144071020544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1091864144071020544&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2019-02-02%2Fnortham-will-not-resign-claims-he-wasnt-racist-picture-ap\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1091864144071020544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1091864144071020544&amp;ref<br \/>\n_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2019-02-02%2Fnortham-will-not-resign-claims-he-wasnt-racist-picture-ap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unforgivable&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams Racist, Late-Term-Abortion-Supporting Democrat VA Governor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}