Ben Sasse condemns Trump. One by one....drip drip drip. # ByeDon
Sasse is the rare Republican in office to criticize Trump for the stunt. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the move an “abuse of power,” while Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) deemed it “repulsive and frightening.”
“The president’s abhorrent abuse of military is what you’d expect from a two bit dictator,” he said, announcing a Judiciary Committee hearing “to stop the militarization of our nation.”
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Sasse issued a statement Tuesday, obtained by the National Review, that expressed opposition to “clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop.”
Read the full statement here:
There is no right to riot, no right to destroy others’ property, and no right to throw rocks at police. But there is a fundamental — a Constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop. Every public servant in America should be lowering the temperature and that means saying two basic truths over and over: (1) police injustice — like the evil murder of George Floyd — is repugnant and merits peaceful protest aimed at change; (2) riots are abhorrent acts of violence that hurt the innocent. Say both things loudly and repeatedly, as Americans work to end the violence and injustice.
*Link is from a RW site, but USA Today & others & twitter have it as well
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3123888001
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