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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:36 PM Oct 2020

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls out Donald Trump for perpetuating domestic terrorism

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-calls-out-donald-trump-for-perpetuating-domestic-terrorism/

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls out Donald Trump for perpetuating domestic terrorism

Published 1 min ago on October 8, 2020By Sarah K. Burris

In a state address, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the groups of militia members who were plotting to kidnap and possibly even kill her after her coronavirus lockdown and the mask mandate.

She explained that the coronavirus has exposed deep inequities in American society, but she called for national unity.

Apologies, site will not let me copy more. More at link.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls out Donald Trump for perpetuating domestic terrorism (Original Post) SheltieLover Oct 2020 OP
Has there EVER been plans to Kidnap a sitting Gov.??? StClone Oct 2020 #1
Not that I know of! SheltieLover Oct 2020 #2
Huey Long, Perhaps, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2020 #6
Well musclecar6 Oct 2020 #3
Thank you Gov. Whitmer for calling them what they are: TERRORISTS flibbitygiblets Oct 2020 #4
Hatred, bigotry and violence have no place in the great state of Michigan Gothmog Oct 2020 #5
Did she really say perpetuating? matt819 Oct 2020 #7
I will not be bullied Gothmog Oct 2020 #8

The Magistrate

(95,252 posts)
6. Huey Long, Perhaps, Sir
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:46 PM
Oct 2020

There were some awful dodgy doings down in Louisiana in those days, and most of them not by the Kingfish, but by his conservative enemies.

musclecar6

(1,690 posts)
3. Well
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:45 PM
Oct 2020


When we have a would be Kim, Saddam, Hitler etc running the country with an adoring complicit VP, attorney general, secretary of state, etc, bad things happen.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
4. Thank you Gov. Whitmer for calling them what they are: TERRORISTS
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:45 PM
Oct 2020

I hope the lapdog media will get a clue and follow suit. If these clowns had brown skin and/or a quoran, I think we all know what they'd be called.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
7. Did she really say perpetuating?
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:47 PM
Oct 2020

I prefer encouraging, or, better, directing.

And, eventually, he should be prosecuted for it.

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