Louisiana Voice

[Trump claims that Biden will increase up low-income housing] “at a much higher rate than it was before, and you know who’s going to be in charge of it? Cory Booker, that’s gonna be nice, okay? I know the suburbs, and Westchester, right, was ground zero for what they were trying to do, okay? They were trying to destroy the suburban beautiful place. The American Dream, really.”

—Donald Trump, in an interview with bigot Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Aug. 28.

“I’m a woman living in the suburbs. I live a couple houses from a couple who have Trump flags and 3 Percenter signs lining all parts of their front yard and back yard. I feel less safe living next to these people than I would living next to Cory Booker or literally anyone else.”

—Tweet om response to Trump’s claim, Sept. 1, 2020.

“RECAP, Laura Ingraham interview:

• Trump believes people in ‘Dark Shadows’ are controlling Biden.
• Trump compares police shootings to golfers ‘choking’ while missing a clutch putt.
• Trump thinks Cory Booker will screw up low income housing (because he’s black?)

Trump is nuts!

—Another tweet by someone with a cooler head, Sept. 1.

“Cory Booker came to my father’s hospital bedside and held his hand. They spoke for an hour in soft voices because my father was very weak and dying. Cory is one of the kindest men I’ve ever met. We should all be so lucky to have a man like him in our neighborhood.”

—A tweet that speaks volumes not only about Cory Booker’s character, but Trump’s as well, Sept. 1.

“Was it something I said?

—Corey Booker tweet in response to racist Franklin Leonard, who had tweeted, “Keep Cory Booker, his vegan cookies, and his relentless positivity the hell out of my neighborhood.” [No, Cory, it’s should be obvious this guy just doesn’t appreciate positive attitudes. He must be very lonely.]

“When you have this disinformation and it’s introduced to one side of the forest, for example, it can travel so quickly through so many different communities and does so many unintentional things before you can even do a fact check. He’s able to muddy the waters so thoroughly that democracy wilts on the vine.”

—Whitney Phillips, assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, on Trump’s disinformation campaign [which in reality, has never stopped.]

“…the ability to use technology not only for good but to mislead and manipulate; the willingness of those with political agendas to resort to such disinformation and propaganda; and the way in which America has cleaved into two separate information universes, with a conservative media ecosystem amplifying falsehoods that then take root.”

ALS victim Ady Barkan, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, in a warning of the “ominous lessons” he learned from a video posted by Louisiana’s 1^st Congressional District Rep. Sleazy Scalise which spliced together Barkan quotes to purposely make it sound as if he had persuaded Joe Biden to defund police departments. [a reprehensible, disgustingly cheap shot, even by Sleazy Scalise standards.]