‘Most of Donald Trump’s America is peaceful’: Trump administration is playing make believe again – By Lauren Floyd (Daily Kos) / Aug 30 2020
In a bizarre defense of President Donald Trump on “Meet The Press,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tried to convince NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday that Trump was both responsible for creating a “peaceful” America” and blameless for violence disrupting American cities.
“You want to talk about Donald Trump’s America. Most of Donald Trump’s America is peaceful,” Meadows said. “It is a Democrat-led city in Portland that we’re talking about this morning, who just yesterday denied help once again from the federal government.” He then alluded to scenes of violence and called for “these people that are conducting these acts to go to jail.”
Meadows contradicted himself in a laughable but not particularly unique fashion as he mainly echoed statements made Thursday by the commander-in-chief himself at the Republican National Convention. During the convention, the president alleged an increase in crime in cities that have been holding anti-police brutality demonstrations. Trump listed cities like Portland, Oregon, where demonstrators have been protesting for racial justice after the death of Minneapolis father George Floyd, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a cop shot at father Jacob Blake seven times in front of his children, but the nonviolent stance the president called for didn’t seem to extend to the police inflicting the violence.
“In the strongest possible terms the Republican party condemns the rioting, looting, arson and violence we have seen in Democrat-run cities all, like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago and New York, many others, Democrat-run,” Trump said. “There’s violence and danger in the streets of many Democrat-run cities throughout America. This problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to. Just call, we’re ready to go in. We’ll take care of your problem in a matter of hours. Just call. We have to wait for the call. It’s too bad we have to, but we have to wait for the call.”
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