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Clinton in a landslide — in
Duterte ‘happy to slaughter’
drug suspects; mentions Hitler endorsements: Do they matter?
Associated Press
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines —
Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte raised the rhetoric
over his bloody anti-crime
war to a new level Friday,
comparing it to Hitler and
the Holocaust and saying
he would be “happy to
slaughter” 3 million addicts.
Duterte issued his latest
threat against drug dealers
and users early Friday on
returning to his hometown
in southern Davao city after
visiting Vietnam, where
he discussed his anti-drug
campaign with Vietnamese
leaders and ways for their
governments to ight trans-
national crimes, including
illegal drugs.
Duterte has said his public
death threats against drug
suspects are designed to scare
them to stop selling drugs
and to discourage would-be
users. But his latest remarks
took that crime-busting
approach to a different level.
He said he had been
“portrayed or pictured to be
a cousin of Hitler,” without
elaborating.
Moments later he said,
“Hitler massacred 3 million
Jews ... there’s 3 million drug
addicts. There are. I’d be
happy to slaughter them.”
He was referring to a Phil-
ippine government estimate
of the number of drug addicts
in the country. Historians say
6 million Jews were killed by
the Nazis under Hitler before
and during World War II.
During the presidential
election campaign earlier
this year and during the three
months he has held ofice,
the tough-talking Duterte
has threatened to drown
drug suspects to fatten the
ish in Manila Bay. He also
threatened to execute drug
trafickers by hanging —
because he didn’t want to
waste electricity on them
— until their heads were
severed from their bodies.
While Hitler’s victims
were
innocent
people,
Duterte said his targets are
“all criminals” and that
getting rid of them would
“inish the (drug) problem of
my country and save the next
NEW YORK — “A
clear and present danger to
our country.” “Xenophobia,
racism and misogyny.”
“Beneath our national
dignity.”
Those aren’t excerpts
from attack ads by Hillary
Clinton’s campaign. Those
are longtime Republican
newspapers
disavowing
Donald Trump.
If newspaper endorse-
ments equaled victory,
Clinton would be in line for
a historic landslide. She has
been endorsed by dozens of
papers ranging from such
expected backers as The
New York Times to such
once-certain GOP advocates
as The Dallas Morning
News, the Arizona Republic
and the Cincinnati Enquirer,
which on Sept. 23 called for
“a leader who will bring out
the best in Americans, not
the worst.”
On Friday, USA Today
ended its tradition of not
taking sides and published
an
anti-endorsement,
contending that Trump
“lacks the temperament,
knowledge, steadiness and
honesty that America needs
from its presidents.” The
paper didn’t back Clinton
but advised readers to “Stay
true to your convictions.”
The same day, The San
Diego
Union-Tribune
endorsed Clinton — the irst
Democrat it has endorsed in
its history.
Trump, meanwhile, is
supported by far fewer
publications. They include a
paper owned by son-in-law
Jared Kushner (the New
York Observer) and the
National Enquirer, a tabloid
whose parent company is
run by Trump friend David
Pecker and whose content
usually focuses on celebrity
scandal.
Trump scorned the
negative editorials Friday,
tweeting that “The people
are really smart in cancel-
ling subscriptions to the
Dallas & Arizona papers &
now USA Today will lose
readers! The people get it!”
“I don’t read USA
AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
A pistol is marked near the body of a drug suspect
after he was killed on Friday with two others in an
alleged “buy-bust” operation by the authorities in the
continuing “War on Drugs” campaign in Caloocan city,
north of Manila, Philippines.
generation from perdition.”
Germany’s
govern-
ment slammed Duterte’s
comments as unacceptable,
and called in the Philippine
ambassador to the Foreign
Ministry over the matter.
“It is impossible to make
any comparison to the unique
atrocities of the Shoah and
Holocaust,” said Foreign
Ministry spokesman Martin
Schaefer in Berlin.
World Jewish Congress
President Ronald Lauder
said Duterte’s remarks were
“revolting” and demanded
that he retract them and
apologize.
“Drug abuse is a serious
issue. But what President
Duterte said is not only
profoundly inhumane, but it
demonstrates an appalling
disrespect for human life that
is truly heartbreaking for the
democratically elected leader
of a great country,” Lauder
said in a statement issued
from Jerusalem, where he
was attending the funeral of
former Israeli leader Shimon
Peres.
The U.S. State Depart-
ment, which is looking to
sustain its longstanding
alliance with the Philippines,
called the comments “trou-
bling.”
“Words matter, especially
when they are from leaders
of sovereign nations, espe-
cially sovereign nations
with whom we have long
and valued relations with,”
spokesman Mark Toner told
reporters. He repeated U.S.
calls for Philippine authori-
ties to investigate any cred-
ible reports of extra-judicial
killings.
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin,
top-ranking Democrat on
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, was more blunt.
“It is reprehensible and
frankly disgusting that a
democratically-elected
leader is talking about the
mass murder of his own
people, with Hitler’s Holo-
caust as his inspiration no
less,” he said in a statement.
Philippine Rep. Teodoro
Baguilat wondered if the
president was suggesting
that “it’s open season now
for all addicts, no more
rehabilitation, just kill them
systematically like what the
Nazis did with the Jews.”
He expressed fears that
Jewish businesspeople might
boycott the Philippines.
Also critical was Phil
Robertson, Asia deputy
director for Human Rights
Watch, who said it was
bafling why anyone would
want to compare themselves
to “one of the largest mass
murderers in human history.”
Robertson said that in
today’s context, Hitler would
be accused of crimes against
humanity.
“Is that what Duterte
wants? Does he want to
be sent to the international
criminal court? Because
he’s working his way there,”
Robertson said.
AP Photo/John Locher
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
speaks at a campaign rally Thursday in Bedford, N.H.
Today,” he said later to
WZZM13 in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, “It’s not much of
a newspaper as far as I’m
concerned.”
If
Clinton’s
over-
whelming advantage among
editorial boards mirrors
the revulsion Trump has
inspired from oficials in
both parties, the endorse-
ments may also illustrate
the decline in newspapers’
power to shape opinions
and the strength of Trump’s
anti-establishment appeal.
Polls show Clinton trailing
in Texas, Arizona and Ohio
despite the unexpected
support of GOP papers.
During the primaries,
the venerable conservative
paper the New Hampshire
Union Leader endorsed
Chris Christie, only to have
the New Jersey governor
lose the state decisively,
drop out and back Trump.
The Arizona Republic
favored John Kasich in the
state’s GOP primary, but
Trump won easily and the
Ohio governor inished
fourth.
“Newspaper
endorse-
ments don’t have nearly the
impact they used to,” says
Mark MacKinnon, co-host
of Showtime’s political
show “The Circus” and
a longtime adviser who
has worked with former
President George W. Bush
and Sen. John McCain of
Arizona, the GOP’s 2008
presidential
candidate.
“There are just way too
many other sources of infor-
mation for voters today.”
“They are just part of
the wave,” says political
historian Rick Perlstein,
who is in the midst of a
multivolume series on the
rise of the conservative
movement and has written
in depth about elections of
the 1960s, ‘70s and beyond.
“They don’t start anything,
and probably didn’t deter-
mine much — but betoken
a widespread disgust in the
air.”
Readers may not let
editorials tell them how to
vote, but they care enough
to respond. Dallas Morning
News editor Mike Wilson
recalls a group of about a
dozen people demonstrated
against the endorsement
across the street from the
paper.
Wilson went down to
talk with them. In a series
of tweets, he described
a discussion that began
angrily but settled into a
serious dialogue.
“I got a few words in and
persuaded zero people,” he
tweeted.
Wilson said he’s received
some
messages
from
Clinton supporters thanking
the newspaper for the edito-
rial, but hasn’t heard that
it changed anyone’s mind.
“They’re not really meant
to end arguments, they’re
mean to start discussions,
and this one certainly did
that,” he said.
“One of the reasons we
exist is to take editorial
positions on things that
can improve lives in our
community,” he said. “That
is one of the core functions
of a newspaper.”
BRIEFLY
Twitter, ‘lies’ and
videotape: Trump
shames beauty
queen
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
(AP) — Plunging deeper
into campaign controversy,
Donald Trump publicly
shamed a former beauty
queen on Friday for her
“disgusting” sexual past and
then — in one of presidential
history’s more bizarre
moments — encouraged
Americans to watch a “sex
tape” he said would support
his case.
The tweet-storm that
Trump launched into at
3:20 a.m. started a day
of did-that-just-happen
moments that ended with
Clinton’s campaign calling
Trump an adult ilm star.
Even many of Trump’s
supporters shook their heads
at their candidate’s latest
outburst, worried it could
further hurt him among
the nation’s women, many
of them already skeptical,
whose votes he’ll badly need
to win election.
“Did Crooked Hillary
help disgusting (check out
sex tape and past) Alicia
M become a U.S. citizen
so she could use her in the
debate?” read a missive from
Trump posted on Twitter at
5:30 a.m. That referred to
1996 Miss Universe Alicia
Machado, a Venezuela-born
woman whose weight gain
he has said created terrible
problems for the pageant he
formerly owned.
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s
pre-dawn Twitter tirade
ricocheted across the
campaign trail.
Trump’s campaign
accused the media and
Hillary Clinton of colluding
to set him up for fresh
condemnation, to which
Clinton retorted, “His
latest twitter meltdown is
unhinged, even for him.”
Machado took to
Facebook to say his tweets
were part of a pattern of
“demoralizing women,”
calling them “cheap lies with
bad intentions.” Planned
Parenthood said it showed
that Trump’s “misogyny
knows no bounds.” And
Clinton said they showed
anew why someone with
Trump’s temperament
“should not be anywhere
near the nuclear codes.”
With less than 40
days left in the election,
Trump’s broadside threw
his campaign into a fresh
round of second-guessing
the candidate’s instincts
and confusion about what
to do next. To believers in
traditional political norms,
it seemed like the opposite
of what was needed to win
over females, Hispanics and
young Americans whose
support could well determine
the election.
Shaming Machado over
intimate details from her past
could be particularly risky
as Trump tries to win over
more female voters, many
of whom are turned away by
such personal attacks. It also
risks calling further attention
to the thrice-married
Trump’s own history with
women.
authorized to speak publicly
on the subject and spoke
to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity. It
was unclear, the oficial said,
whether the hackers were
foreign or domestic, or what
their motives might be. ABC
News earlier reported that
more than 20 states were
targeted.
The FBI last month
warned state oficials of
the need to improve their
election security after
hackers targeted systems in
Illinois and Arizona. FBI
Director James Comey
told lawmakers this week
that the agency is looking
“very, very hard” at Russian
hackers who may try to
disrupt the U.S. election.
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Hackers have targeted the
voter registration systems
of more than 20 states in
recent months, a Homeland
Security Department oficial
said Friday.
The disclosure comes
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