Sometimes It Is All About the Benjamins

While the establishment tries to distract with false charges of anti-Semitism, Ilhan Omar’s attack was actually against money in politics.

Carl J. Petersen
4 min readFeb 14, 2019

What [Ilhan Omar] said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology..was just not appropriate.

- Donald Trump

On August 11, 2017, white supremacists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting “Sieg Heil” and “Jews will not replace us.” The next day James Alex Fields Jr., “who a former teacher said was fascinated by Nazism and Hitler”, purposefully drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters to the “Unite the Right” rally, killing Heather Heyer in cold blood. Donald Trump responded by saying that there were “fine” people on both sides. There are no “fine” people in a crowd of people chanting Nazi slogans.

While the grandfather of Jewish children could not offer an outright condemnation of Nazis in Charlottesville, Trump did become outraged over the comments of a congressperson. No, it was not directed at Steve King, who told the New York Times: “White nationalist

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Carl J. Petersen

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com