HONY’s Brandon Stanton Tears Shreds Off Donald Trump In Open Letter

Humans of New York‘s Brandon Stanton has penned a blistering open letter to Donald Trump, tearing shred of beautiful shred off the – oh god – Republican front-runner.

To his audience of 17 million people, Brandon takes aim at Trump’s terrifying anti-Muslim stance, labelling him as a “hateful” man who happily advocates for torture, murder, and violence, and as someone “who has encouraged prejudice and violence in the pursuit of personal power.”

This, my friends, is poetry.

“I am a journalist, Mr Trump,” he writes. “And over the last two years I have conducted extensive interviews with hundreds of Muslims, chosen at random, on the streets of Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees across seven different countries. And I can confirm – the hateful one is you.”

HONY posts usually attract somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000+ likes, and a hefty few thousand shares and comments, but this one’s almost clocked up ONE MILLION likes in the space of four hours. And that’s at the time we posted this.

Have a read of it below:

An Open Letter to Donald Trump:Mr. Trump,I try my hardest not to be political. I’ve refused to interview several of…

Posted by Humans of New York on Monday, 14 March 2016

Source: HONY.

Photo: Nicholas Kamm / Getty.

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