Humans Of New York’s Brandon Stanton has slammed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a searingly angry open letter.
Posting on the blog’s Facebook page, the journalist and photographer labels Trump “hateful” and calls him a “man who has encouraged prejudice and violence in the pursuit of personal power.”
“I’ve watched you retweet racist images. I’ve watched you retweet racist lies. I’ve watched you take 48 hours to disavow white supremacy,” 32-year-old Stanton writes. “I’ve watched you joyfully encourage violence, and promise to ‘pay the legal fees’ of those who commit violence on your behalf. I’ve watched you advocate the use of torture and the murder of terrorists’ families. I’ve watched you gleefully tell stories of executing Muslims with bullets dipped in pig blood. I’ve watched you compare refugees to ‘snakes,’ and claim that ‘Islam hates us.’”
He goes on to say: “I am a journalist, Mr. Trump. And over the last two years I have conducted extensive interviews with hundreds of Muslims, chosen at random, on the streets of Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees across seven different countries. And I can confirm— the hateful one is you.”
Human’s of New York, a blog documenting the inspiring lives of ordinary New Yorkers through interviews, is liked by over 17 million people on Facebook and the official book spent 29 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list last February.
Stanton is not the first person to speak out against Trump publically: John Legend has branded him a racist, hacktivist group Anonymous has declared ‘total war’ on the Republican frontrunner and the Saturday Night Live cast recently took the total piss out of his supporters in a no holds barred satirical skit.
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Posted by Humans of New York on Monday, 14 March 2016
