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Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks | Reuters (2024-11-16)

[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/] ———
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“Several Muslim and Arab supporters of Trump said they hoped Richard Grenell, Trump's former acting director of national intelligence, would play a key role after he led months of outreach to Muslim and Arab American communities, and was even introduced as a potential next secretary of state at events.

“Another key Trump ally, Massad Boulos, the Lebanese father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders.

“Both promised Arab American and Muslim voters that Trump was a candidate for peace who would act swiftly to end the wars in the Middle East and beyond…”

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[–] PineRune 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"... a candidate for peace who would act swiftly to end the wars in the Middle East and beyond..."

They never bothered to tell them -how- he would be ending those wars. I guess sometimes the peaceful solution is a bloody one. Peaceful as in there's nobody left to fight back.

[–] Archer 3 points 4 days ago

Oh no, it’s the extremely predictable consequences of my actions

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