A bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, came after Trump repeated baseless rumor about immigrants āeating petsā
Joe Biden on Friday said the hostile attacks on Haitian immigrants in the US ā[have] to stopā afterĀ Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Ohio.
āIt is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is under attack right now in this country,ā Biden said. āThereās no place in America. This has to stop ā what heās doing. It has to stop,ā the US president said at a White House event marking Black excellence.
The mayor of Springfield,Ā Ohio, earlier on Friday said thatĀ the bomb threatĀ made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the cityās Haitian community, following Donald Trumpās stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residentsā pets are being eaten.
Rob Rue, the mayor, accused nationalĀ Republicans who are amplifying wild rumors from a far-right provocateur that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are hunting and eating other peopleās pets of āhurting our cityā.
Just brain-storming here, and what if we took away publicity from those that stoke violence? What if we passed laws against encouraging others to murder, to terrorize, commit violence? Would that be helpful?
It will not, because those laws already largely exist. It has been quite well established Iām the US that inciting violence is not considered protected speech. The laws just donāt apply the same to wealthy people like Trump as they do to anyone else.
What if we treated them like the terrorists they are?
Lock em up.