Yes, you are reading the headline correctly. On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, Wall Street JournalWhite House reporter Eli Stokols was very upset that President Trump called for the death penalty to be imposed on the terrorist who just killed eight people in New York City because – wait for it – Trump didn’t also call for the execution of the Las Vegas mass shooter.
No one bothered to tell Eli that Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock already killed himself. As if that wasn’t enough, Stokols also took the opportunity to claim that the President’s supporters are animated by “bloodthirst” and “ethnocentric nationalism” for wanting the Uzbek terrorist dead.
Host Nicolle Wallace and the rest of the guest panel led off the show by diving straight into the topic of Trump’s public support for executing Sayfullo Saipov. For the most part, they stuck to criticizing Trump’s off-the-cuff attitude when slinging out tweets and how the President’s specific comments about the NYC terrorist might hinder his prosecution. However, when Wallace turned the conversation to Stokols, the WSJreporter couldn’t help but to psychoanalyze Trump and his supporters as violent, bloodthirsty racists and Islamophobes
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