Patti Davis (LENNOX MCLENDON / TT / NTB Scanpix)

Reagans dotter till Trump: Mördare hör dig

Patti Davis, dotter till den tidigare republikanske presidenten Ronald Reagan, kritiserar Trump för hans kommentar om att vapenägare kan agera mot Hillary Clinton. I ett inlägg på Facebook skriver Davis om hur hennes pappa 1981 blev skjuten av en person som trodde sig kunna få uppmärksamhet genom att mörda en president.
Hon skriver till Trump att hans kommentar hördes både av hans anhängare, av folk som ryser över hans hårda retorik och ytterligare en typ av människor:
”Det hördes av personen som sitter själv i ett rum, fastlåst i sina egna mörka fantasier, som ser hämningslöst våld som sin chans att göra ett avtryck i världen.”
Patti Davis tillägger att ord spelar roll:
”Men det vet du ju, och det gör allt ännu mera skrämmande.”

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Mordförsöket på Ronald Reagan
Wikipedia (en)
The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley's motivation for the attack was to impress actress Jodie Foster, over whom he had developed an obsession after seeing her in the film Taxi Driver. There were no fatalities in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Reagan was shot in the chest, just below the left underarm. He suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding, but prompt medical attention allowed him to recover quickly. No formal invocation of presidential succession took place, although Secretary of State Alexander Haig controversially stated that he was "in control here" while Vice President George H. W. Bush returned to Washington. The most seriously wounded victim was White House Press Secretary James Brady, who was left paralyzed from a gunshot wound to the head. He would later die in 2014 of causes a Virginia medical examiner found were directly related to the 1981 shooting. Hinckley also wounded Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and Washington D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of attempting to assassinate the President and remained confined to a psychiatric facility. On July 27, 2016 it was announced he would be released not before August 5, 2016, on convalescent leave to reside in Williamsburg, Virginia. In January 2015, federal prosecutors announced that they would not charge Hinckley with Brady's death, despite the medical examiner's classification of his death as a homicide.
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Patti Davis
Wikipedia (en)
Patti Davis (born October 21, 1952) is an American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Reagan's second wife, First Lady Nancy Reagan.
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