Posted on 05/30/2020 4:22:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted in flames after a handcuffed black man was killed by a white police officer.
It’s the kind of frenetic, fractured moment when national leaders are looked to for solutions and solace. President Donald Trump instead threw a rhetorical match into the tinderbox. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” he declared ominously in a late-night tweet.
The episode encapsulated Trump’s approach to the presidency and to this time of national crisis, which has upended nearly every aspect of American life and put his November reelection prospects at risk. He’s latched on to personal grievances and cast himself as a victim, while making only occasional references to the staggering loss of life across the country. He’s willingly stoked partisan divisions over public health, and now racial divisions in the face of a death, rather than seeking opportunities to pull the nation together.
At a moment when many Americans are looking to their leaders, Joe Biden, Trump’s Democratic challenger in the November election, tried to step into the breach. In remarks from his Delaware home, where he has remained throughout the pandemic, Biden offered condolences to Floyd’s family and said it was no time to encourage violence in America.
“We need real leadership right now, leadership that will bring everyone to the table so we can take measures to root out systemic racism,” Biden said.
“The nation is on fire, and the president of the United States is standing there with gasoline,” said Rep. Val Demings of Florida, a contender to become Biden’s running mate.
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Everybody, now, let’s blame Trump for everything! and when we’re through, we’ll blame him for a few more things too.
Is Julie Pace Web Hubbell’s daughter, too? She gives Chelsea Clinton a run for the ugly competition.
gasoline is being poured on the USA by the MSM and Soros.
when will America return the blow.
No, actually, the nation is being looted and the President is standing their with a gun.
If this someday goes south she and her a##hats will be the first to go by those she led into power, remember pol pot!
Julie Pace, liberal millennial. Just what don’t they know?
Julie, Julie, Julie! You are allowing yourself to be triggered.
This is obviously meant as a deflection since the propaganda press has been doing everything it can to politicize the virus, divide Americans against each other, and stir up attacks against the police and promote rioting, looting, and destruction.
Previously she was AP’s White House Correspondent, contributing aggressive news reporting and sharp analysis to the AP news report.
Pace won the White House Correspondents’ Association Merriman Smith award in 2013 for her work explaining the Obama campaign’s complex approach to voter turnout.
She joined AP in 2007 as a multimedia reporter, developing and executing AP’s plans for live video coverage of 2008′s Election Day and the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
A native of Buffalo, New York, Pace began her career as a reporter in 2003 at South Africa’s only independent television network, before spending two years reporting on politics and elections at the Tampa Tribune and its partner television station WFLA. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
The big question is whether “blame Trump” for everything works in November.
Does one rogue Minneapolis cop upend his whole presidency, something the deep state couldn’t do in four years?
Trump is the only one with the guts to do something.
That’s why you can’t trust career politicians - they’re afraid to do anything because they might get blamed for something.
Guess what - Trump’s already being blamed, so might as well go ahead.
The author thinks we are a nation of bed-wetters and snowflakes. I don’t recall any previous President moaning and self-flagellating over a pandemic.
Clinton started all this desire for a president to show his feelings with his “I feel your pain” crap. The immature children in the USA just lap that crap right up.
In three years, has Ass Press done one positive ‘analysis’ on Trump?
Count me as in favor of shooting (to kill) looters.
The current insanity of letting looters loot as they please only began in the late 1960s when NYC Mayor John Lindsay restricted the NYPD suggesting that no one should lose their life for stealing a television.
ML/NJ
As much as I miss the technical side of TV, I don’t miss the rest.
But somehow, it's Trump's fault. These people are completely insane.
AP = Always Propaganda
It is always our Presidents fault! No one else!
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