@gamehawk @catonano And I guess that's why I didn't bother to be clearer about Trump's statement originally. I was called out on being imprecise by someone I respect though, and that made me question if I should have worded things differently.

@cwebber @catonano Yeah, I think that's been kind of an ugly tactic: yelling at news outlets for "fake news" because he wasn't "really" calling them animals.

As someone whose mother has referred to Syrian refugees, and whose husband is half Syrian (and whose grandparents were refugees), I have to say: "OH HIS BASE HEARD *EXACTLY* WHAT HE WAS SAYING."

@cwebber @catonano (er, there's an "as animals" that goes in there somehwere)