Donald Trump Jr.’s explanation of his poison Skittles tweet was as bad as the original:
Speaking to the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards, Trump Jr. said the picture he tweeted earlier this week was about his concern as a father of five about what could happen "if we're not vetting people and we're arbitrarily letting them into a country."
We're vetting them, Uday.
"We've seen what's going on in Europe. We can't be naive to that and pretend that's not happening there," Trump Jr. said. "If there's one death associated with it because we messed up and we didn't do it right, that's a problem for me."
How about the deaths of thousands of refugees, including children? As the Deseret News notes, a recent study found that “the risk of an American being killed by a refugee in a terror attack is 1 in 3.64 billion.” But Syrian refugees are dying all the time. And the Trumps Jr. and Sr. don’t care even a little bit.
He said the tweeted picture did not represent a ratio of terrorists to refugees because he "didn't say numbers of Skittles," even though the accompanying text asks who would take a handful of the candies knowing "just three would kill you."
Monster with slicked-back hair.
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