Trump unleashes Twitter storm after Portland protest death – By Tribune News Service (Pennlive) / Aug 30 2020
President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm about Portland, Oregon, early Sunday, hours after a man was killed there during clashes between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
The president retweeted a post using a profanity to describe Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, suggesting only to “Tone down the language,” and others in which the original tweeters accused Wheeler, a Democrat, of “war crimes” and of having blood on his hands.
Posts from a right-wing journalist that claimed to have “exclusive” knowledge of the Portland incident were also retweeted by the president.
Portland has been the site of protests, often violent, for months, following the killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by police in Minnesota in late May.
Another string of posts from Trump late Saturday night included one in which he shared a message from the conservative broadcaster One America News (OAN) that called ongoing protests against racism in the U.S. an attempted coup and aimed to “take down the president.”
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