Trump and right-wing violence

[lpetrich]

Biden accused Trump of fomenting violence. Trump proved him right. - Vox - "The president not only refuses to condemn right-wing violence — he actively defends it."

On Monday afternoon, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addressed unrest in cities like Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon, saying that President Donald Trump “long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country.”

“He can’t stop the violence, because for years he’s fomented it,” Biden added during his speech in Pittsburgh. “You know, he may believe mouthing the words ‘law and order’ makes him strong, but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is.”

Within hours, Trump proved Biden right, delivering a press conference in which he stoked unfounded fears about “left-wing political violence” while refusing to condemn right-wing vigilantes — including a 17-year-old supporter of his who has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha.

Kyle Rittenhouse, someone whom Trump defended.

All in character with what he said about Charlottesville "Unite the Right" people, people who included some Ku Klux Klan members and some neo-Nazis. He said that some of them were "very fine people".

 

[braces_for_impact]

When you encourage your "citizen-soldiers" to intervene, knowing they're gun nuts, they will.

 

[ZiprHead]

Democrats should be shot dead in the streets.

[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Democrats need to be shot dead" and other Q crap demonizing LGBTQ.<br> SALEM, OREGON <a href="https://t.co/8WVhPtMXnG">pic.twitter.com/8WVhPtMXnG</a></p>— Cozca Itzpapalotl (@KohzKah) <a href="https://twitter.com/KohzKah/status/1303064360613371904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]