Three months old but still worth listening to again.
Meanwhile, so-called "president" Donald Trump has compared the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin to missing “a three-foot putt” in a golf tournament. He refused to condemn the killings of two protesters in Kenosha, and instead defended the person charged in the shootings, a 17-year-old Trump supporter, claiming he was acting in self-defense. Trump also claimed that he “took control of” the situation in Kenosha by sending in the National Guard when, in fact, it was Wisconsin’s governor, not the president, who sent the National Guard.
He also defended violence committed by his supporters in Portland, Oregon, who fired paintballs and pepper spray at Black Lives Matter protesters.
According to Trump, protests against police brutality are actually part of a secret “coup attempt” by anarchists “trying to take down the president.” He said that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” wearing “dark uniforms” was headed to the Republican National Convention to do “big damage.” The claim is similar to a baseless conspiracy theory that spread online over the summer, well before the convention.
He said Democrats are trying to “destroy” suburbs with “low-income housing, and with that comes a lot of other problems, including crime.” In case you missed the racist dog-whistle implicit in "low-income housing," he added that Cory Booker, one of the highest-profile Black Democrats, would be “in charge of it.”
He claimed that “people that you’ve never heard of” and “people that are in the dark shadows” are controlling Joe Biden. He predicted that the stock market would crash if Biden won. He said that Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, never discussed law enforcement or the police. "Those words weren’t mentioned.” In fact, Biden held a discussion at the convention on policing, with a police chief.
As for the coronavirus, Trump retweeted messages asserting that the pandemic’s death toll was overstated. Evidence indicates the opposite is true.
Meanwhile, so-called "president" Donald Trump has compared the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin to missing “a three-foot putt” in a golf tournament. He refused to condemn the killings of two protesters in Kenosha, and instead defended the person charged in the shootings, a 17-year-old Trump supporter, claiming he was acting in self-defense. Trump also claimed that he “took control of” the situation in Kenosha by sending in the National Guard when, in fact, it was Wisconsin’s governor, not the president, who sent the National Guard.
He also defended violence committed by his supporters in Portland, Oregon, who fired paintballs and pepper spray at Black Lives Matter protesters.
According to Trump, protests against police brutality are actually part of a secret “coup attempt” by anarchists “trying to take down the president.” He said that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” wearing “dark uniforms” was headed to the Republican National Convention to do “big damage.” The claim is similar to a baseless conspiracy theory that spread online over the summer, well before the convention.
He said Democrats are trying to “destroy” suburbs with “low-income housing, and with that comes a lot of other problems, including crime.” In case you missed the racist dog-whistle implicit in "low-income housing," he added that Cory Booker, one of the highest-profile Black Democrats, would be “in charge of it.”
He claimed that “people that you’ve never heard of” and “people that are in the dark shadows” are controlling Joe Biden. He predicted that the stock market would crash if Biden won. He said that Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, never discussed law enforcement or the police. "Those words weren’t mentioned.” In fact, Biden held a discussion at the convention on policing, with a police chief.
As for the coronavirus, Trump retweeted messages asserting that the pandemic’s death toll was overstated. Evidence indicates the opposite is true.
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