06-10-2020, 08:40 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-white-house-defends-buffalo-tweet-questions-170122511.html
In a tweet this week, Trump referred to a report that aired on the far-right One America News Network that suggested the incident was a “false-flag provocation by far-left group antifa.”
“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” Trump tweeted Tuesday to his 81.9 million Twitter followers. “75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”
https://youtu.be/QFeewU0HhNE
(I can’t get the link to the video to work but it’s on Youtube and easily found. )
A 75 year old man was shoved to the ground by police, cracked his head and was bleeding out of his ear and spent several days in the hospital. And the President of the US thinks it’s a set up by Antifa??
And then his Press Secretary Barbie doll defends his abhorrent tweet, while other Republicans in Congress refuse to comment on it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweet-republicans-prefer-not-122225449.html
“I didn’t see it — you’re telling me about it,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and a frequent user of the platform, told a CNN reporter of the message. “I don’t read Twitter, I only write on it.”
Handed a copy of the post, Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., scanned the page before saying, “I don’t even know the episode he’s talking about.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who was trained as a lawyer and has himself been targeted by Trump on Twitter, made a process argument: He has a long-standing policy of not commenting on the president’s tweets.
During his weekly news conference, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the Senate majority leader, pointedly redirected the conversation toward discussions about efforts at overhauling law enforcement and about how the Senate was responding to protests across the country.
GOP has given Trump the green light to tweet anything no matter how disgusting or demonstrably false it is. Centuries from now people will look at this era in American politics and wonder how the fuck anyone supported this piece of shit.
In a tweet this week, Trump referred to a report that aired on the far-right One America News Network that suggested the incident was a “false-flag provocation by far-left group antifa.”
“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” Trump tweeted Tuesday to his 81.9 million Twitter followers. “75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”
https://youtu.be/QFeewU0HhNE
(I can’t get the link to the video to work but it’s on Youtube and easily found. )
A 75 year old man was shoved to the ground by police, cracked his head and was bleeding out of his ear and spent several days in the hospital. And the President of the US thinks it’s a set up by Antifa??
And then his Press Secretary Barbie doll defends his abhorrent tweet, while other Republicans in Congress refuse to comment on it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweet-republicans-prefer-not-122225449.html
“I didn’t see it — you’re telling me about it,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and a frequent user of the platform, told a CNN reporter of the message. “I don’t read Twitter, I only write on it.”
Handed a copy of the post, Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., scanned the page before saying, “I don’t even know the episode he’s talking about.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who was trained as a lawyer and has himself been targeted by Trump on Twitter, made a process argument: He has a long-standing policy of not commenting on the president’s tweets.
During his weekly news conference, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the Senate majority leader, pointedly redirected the conversation toward discussions about efforts at overhauling law enforcement and about how the Senate was responding to protests across the country.
GOP has given Trump the green light to tweet anything no matter how disgusting or demonstrably false it is. Centuries from now people will look at this era in American politics and wonder how the fuck anyone supported this piece of shit.
