President Trump’s tweets over the past week have continued to raise questions about his leadership.
As violent protests continued for a fifth straight night over the death of an African-American man during an arrest by Minneapolis police, President Trump took advantage of the crisis to take a swipe at “the Democrat Mayor” of Minneapolis for failing to control the protests, praising a “great job” by the Minnesota National Guard.
As police clashed with demonstrators in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities, Trump, after returning to the White House from Florida where he witnessed the launch of two astronauts aboard the SpaceX rocket, was uncharacteristically reticent on Twitter. He sent out several tweets during the day supporting the rights of “peaceful protestors” and condemning the death of George Floyd, who died after being pinned to the ground by four officers.
“They were not only totally professional, but very cool. I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe. They let the ‘protesters’ scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action.
“I have no idea if they are going to be here. I was just asking, but I have no idea if they’re going to be here,” Trump replied.Later on Saturday, Trump said the National Guard had been “released in Minneapolis to do the job that the Democrat Mayor couldn’t do,” again seemed to green-light whatever police tactics were necessary to put down those in the streets protesting police brutality.
The same phrase, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” had been used in 1967 by notorious Miami police chief Walter Headley and later repeated by segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace in 1968. Twitter flagged the president’s tweet for “glorifying violence.” “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate violent agenda,” Barr said on Saturday. “In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic and ... far left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics.”
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