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Donald Trump’s wounds are all self-inflicted

That is an understatement.

He gets his news from Sweden from Fox News and he defends someone from Breitbart who condones pedophilia.

Berkeley Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos Speech, and Donald Trump Tweets Outrage
By THOMAS FULLER and CHRISTOPHER MELEFEB. 1, 2017

Donald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
6:13 AM - 2 Feb 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/uc-berkeley-milo-yiannopoulos-protest.html?_r=0

And only today he finally condemned attacks on JCC but it took his daughter to get him to do it.

Trump Calls Anti-Semitism ‘Horrible’ and ‘Painful’
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISFEB. 21, 2017

“The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible, and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil,” Mr. Trump said.

The statement came after weeks in which the leaders of major Jewish organizations complained privately to members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, about the president’s seeming unwillingness to speak out forcefully against anti-Semitic incidents. His failure to do so stoked concern among some Jewish leaders that Mr. Trump, whose presidential campaign drew the support of racist and anti-Semitic groups including the Ku Klux Klan, was at best willing to stay silent about such actions and at worst quietly condoning them.

The comment on Tuesday was a rare concession to the demands of outside forces by a president who prides himself on defying expectations. Despite the questions that arose during his campaign, Mr. Trump has never proactively delivered a statement condemning anti-Semitism.

“The president’s sudden acknowledgment of anti-Semitism is a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration,” said Steven Goldstein, the executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. “When President Trump responds to anti-Semitism proactively and in real time, and without pleas and pressure, that’s when we’ll be able to say this president has turned a corner. This is not that moment.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/us/politics/trump-speaks-out-against-anti-semitism.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news