Posted on 08/29/2020 9:18:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination last night and is back on the trail. He ventured to New Hampshire, a state where he came very close to taking from Hillary Clinton in 2016. At a rally in Manchester, the president ripped into the Democratic mayors who are allowing their cities to burn and leftist violence to continue unopposed. He torched D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser for allowing these hooligans to accost those attending his convention address. One of them, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), felt that he would have been killed if it weren’t for police protection. Paul was assaulted by a crazed neighbor three years ago.
For weeks, these leftist thugs have set fires to New York, Portland, Seattle, and Chicago. Other cities have experienced this mayhem as well. As we speak, Kenosha, Wisconsin is a total war zone, where looting, arson, and gunfire has erupted in the streets. This riot was started over the shooting of Jacob Blake. The rest of the nation was set ablaze over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May. Yet, this is no longer about police reform or racial justice. This is about Marxism.
Trump said that if this chaos continues, he might consider invoking the Insurrection Act to put down the mobs. You can hear the meltdown brewing among liberal reporters and Democratic politicians (via The Hill) [emphasis mine]:
President Trump on Friday described protesters who surrounded the White House during the final night of the Republican National Convention as “thugs,” and suggested he was looking at invoking the Insurrection Act to send troops to quell protests in U.S. cities.
Trump, speaking at an outdoor campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., took a victory lap following his keynote address to the GOP convention from the White House on Thursday, before rebuking Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for what he described as a failure to gain control of protests in the city.
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Trump specifically mentioned Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who was surrounded by protesters Thursday night when departing the White House following Trump’s address and needed to be escorted by police.
“These incredible people from all over the country, all over the world last night, they walked out to a bunch of thugs. And that wasn’t — remember this — that wasn’t friendly protesters, they were thugs. They were thugs,” Trump continued.
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“The mayor should be ashamed of herself for that kind of a display of incompetence, because that’s what’s happening inn Portland, that’s what happens all over where you have Democrat-run cities,” Trump said.
The president went on to suggest that he again was considering invoking the Insurrection Act, which would enable him to send active-duty troops to cities to quell protests and unrest.
“We’re not supposed to be involved unless we’re invited in — by the people that run — these are all Democrat-run cities, including D.C.,” Trump said. “We’re not supposed to go in unless you call it an insurrection."
“We’re going to have to look at it,” he continued. “Because we’re not going to let that happen to people who go to the White House to celebrate our country.”
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Look, the Left Coast has seen some 90-straight days of this leftist nonsense. In Chicago, the looting began again after a murder suspect shot himself as police approached him. The Chicago Police had to release the graphic video to dispel rumors about the incident. The police didn’t shoot this man, but the mayhem restarted. And the people who are supposed to quell this nonsense, Democratic mayors, are doing next to nothing. It may be time to send in the military. Put the mob down. Period.
Just do it. Right after the election. You do or We the People will take care of it. I am tired of all the talking Mr. President.
The riots will end when the cities and states that allow them are bankrupt.
He already stands a real good chance of winning Minnesota right now ... and that's AFTER his administration rejected Minnesota's request for FEMA recovery funds to rebuild Minneapolis.
Wait to be asked. The Dems are losing big time on this issue.
I hope they arrest the mayors if they go in under the insurrection act. The mayors are conspiring with the thugs.
Terminate the riots by any means necessary. Those who are rioting in the streets are giving approval and material support to all the illegal actions. It doesn’t matter if they are the tender age of 19. They are members of a gang that is attacking, burning, destroying, stealing, assaulting, raping and killing.
When one of the gang’s members throws a firebomb, the other members who don’t try to stop him, and don’t get away from the gang, are equally guilty and have lost their rights.
If only Trump would do what I hope he would do. The left hates him already. They can’t hate him more than they do already.
Millions, literally millions, of us ae tired of all of the talking. Time to bring in the iron fist.
I think that is what the left wants. Don’t fall for it.
It has gone too far, to view the inhumanity of thugs who get in the face of elderly people departing from the RNC event in D.C.
They would killed them if given the lenience.
As it was, the mayor allowed attendants to be funneled into BLM aggressors and declined SS coverage.
This is domestic terrorism.
But then again, the DOJ has seemingly tolerated it for 4 years.
If he does it, he needs to arrest Mayors and Governors along with their rioter brethren.
He feels, rightly so, that he has to stay within the bounds set by the Constitution.
And that entails very careful legal research.
Regardless of who is impatient.
It is true that the terrorists are pushing their luck as each day they are closer to making the case for the president.
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+1,000,001 !
I agree, except maybe take it one step further and offer. Let them decide whether to "cave" or own it.
SPJNK.
Get it done
With the help of the National Guard and keeping outsiders out of Kenosha the situation has been squashed down.
with these extremist leftist mayors and some governors aiding and abetting these dangerous thugs to terrorize and burn down our cities
the president may HAVE to send in troops.
I realize that SorozNazi’s DNC puppet bosses are trying to bait him into doing just this
but sometimes in life we have to take the bait, as there are no alternatives
and at least it can terminate the Burn Loot and Murder gangsters! and restore some law and order to our communities so that we may walk safely and sleep safely again in our homes
I would love to see Kate Brown go to Gitmo.
She has done absolutely nothing except abuse her supposed authority related to covid and has turned her back on stopping the deep state pawns from destroying Portland. FYKB
Wyden, Merkely and Mayor can be arrested along with her.
She has now instituted monthly testing for covid in medical settings and it’s not free. More money for the state!
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