An ACLU leader who threatened to shoot Donald Trump voters
Loring Wirbel stepped down from his job with the Colorado Springs chapter of the ACLU after his Facebook post likening Trump to a Nazi and saying that he would have to shoot anyone who votes for him began making the Internet rounds, according to the New York Daily News.
His rant was accompanied by a USA Today article calling Trump a ‘fear monger in chief.’
The original post, which has been taken down, read, ‘The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, ‘This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him. I will have to shoot you before election day.’ They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force, as Laurie would say.’
Goebbels refers to one of Hitler’s main henchmen, Joseph Goebbels. And Laurie refers to Laurie Anderson and her song, O Superman, according to the outlet.
Wirbel defended his post, saying it was just a ‘joke’ but admitted that he could see how it could cause offense, reported the Gazette.
‘It was intended totally as a joke. They are taking that stuff out of context. It’s smear politics,’ he told the outlet.
But Cole, who is credited with first exposing the post, said ‘I think it’s outrageous on its face. It’s beyond belief that he would think it was acceptable to post something like that.’
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