{"id":101681,"date":"2022-05-23T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/don-winslow-we-need-to-fight-trump-ted-cruz-and-the-other-traitors\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:37:59","slug":"don-winslow-we-need-to-fight-trump-ted-cruz-and-the-other-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/don-winslow-we-need-to-fight-trump-ted-cruz-and-the-other-traitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Winslow: \u2018We need to fight Trump, Ted Cruz and the other traitors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don Winslow has hit out at Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and \u2018the other traitors\u2019, as he called on Democrats to \u201creclaim the very idea of patriotism\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n

The celebrated crime novelist spoke about political activism and novel writing at the Santa Fe Literary Festival<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople put Trump\u2019s face on the flag, a wannabe dictator\u2019s face on the American flag, and then invaded the Capitol and called themselves patriots,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not yielding it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about the biggest threats citizens face in the current climate, he added: \u201cNow the threats come from the right wing. It\u2019s the Proud Boys. Again, I don\u2019t take it terribly seriously. Most of those people are physical as well as moral cowards. I can take care of myself, but I\u2019m definitely more aware of my surroundings at events like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Winslow has attracted plenty of criticism from Trump supporters since the 2020 election when he began his campaign against the Trump agenda online.<\/p>\n

\"\"The author wants the Democrats to \u201creclaim the very idea of patriotism\u201d<\/small>Getty images<\/small><\/p>\n

The 68-year-old said that he is targeted online as a result of his political campaigning, saying: “We fight a lot of bot interference. People set up phoney accounts saying they\u2019re me, saying terrible things about transgender people, women and people of colour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me sick to my stomach. It really upsets me. But generally speaking we\u2019re fighting Trump and the Trumpists, and the imitators. The Ted Cruzs, the Josh Hawleys, and those other traitors. You can quote me on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winslow also made it clear that he believes Joe Biden was the right choice to fight the 2020 election. \u201cNone of the other candidates would have won,\u201d he says. \u201cYou needed that guy. You needed that middle of the road uncle, a decent human being, to win that election.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cHistory might record that Joe Biden saved democracy in the last election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before giving up novel writing to focus on political activism, Winslow wrote the books The Force, Savages<\/em> and The Cartel Trilogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Don Winslow has hit out at Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and \u2018the other traitors\u2019, as he called on Democrats to \u201creclaim the very idea of patriotism\u201d in the US. The celebrated crime novelist spoke about political activism and novel writing at the Santa Fe Literary Festival over the weekend. \u201cPeople put Trump\u2019s face on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":101682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Don-Winslow-\u2018We-need-to-fight-Trump-Ted-Cruz-and.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}