Trump's New Orleans terror attack comments foretell foreboding future: analyst
Raw StoryThe way that President-elect Donald Trump responded to the terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day says a lot about how he is likely to behave when it comes to terrorism in his second term. Writing for The Guardian, Robert Tait said that Trump's reaction "especially when combined with his false accompanying message that the episodes confirmed his frequent warnings against open borders and illegal immigrants." Tait recalled the 20% increase in anti-Muslim hate that erupted after a radicalized Islamist husband-and-wife team killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California in 2015 after Trump took to social media and ranted about it. Professor Brian Levin of the California State University and founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism recalled that after Trump lashed out at the Black Lives Matter movement, anti-Black crime surged.