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January 12, 2021
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
He may have lost most of his social media access but President Donald Trump Tuesday morning was still able to reach his supporters to gin up the MAGA troops. In his first live, presumably unscripted public remarks President Donald Trump appeared to telegraph to his supporters to continue the violence MAGA devotees demonstrated when they took over the U.S. Capitol in an armed and deadly insurrection last week, even while claiming, "we want no violence." Speaking to reporters on his way to Alamo, Texas to tour his border wall in one of his final acts as president, Trump refused to take any responsibility for inciting the insurrection that led to six deaths, while insisting he still has "tremendous support" from his followers. Many of those who attacked the Capitol expressed anger at Trump after he recorded a video denouncing the violence, a video he reportedly was forced to record by his top aides and later said he regretted recording. "So if you read my speech and many people have done it and I've seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, and it's been analyzed and people thought it was totally appropriate," Trump told reporters, referring to the speech he gave inciting the insurrection. He then tried to compare last Wednesday's seditious coup attempt that he caused to the Black Lives Matter protests, caused by police killings of unarmed Black people across the country. MSNBC opted to cut away.
He called the impeachment, which will be voted on and will likely pass by a strong margin this week, "a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics." "This impeachment is causing tremendous anger, and you're doing it," he said targeting reporters, who are not "doing it" "and it's really a terrible thing that they're doing." "For Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to continue on this path, I think it's causing tremendous danger to our county and it's causing tremendous anger. I want no violence."
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Impeach and remove!
Blecht
(3,803 posts)Put him on an eight-day delay.
spanone
(135,855 posts)Arne
(2,036 posts)I want nothing,
I did nothing,
I said nothing.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)They are still collecting evidence.
Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Stop covering him. Stop covering his remarks. He has been removed from social media but he still has the slavish devotion of the MSM! TURN.HIM.OFF!
wryter2000
(46,074 posts)Yes, there's news value to know what's going on in his mind, but he's also fomenting violence. It has to stop.
bluestarone
(17,002 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)His refusal to step up and do the right thing makes him just as guilty of betraying the country as trump's own behavior. They both should be run out of town on a rail and never allowed near any position of public responsibility again.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)gohuskies
(1,156 posts)He will incite more violence and insurrection. He needs to be zip-tied with a gag in his big fat yap. Impeachment should be the least of his worries when this sorry soap opera finally reaches its conclusion. He is one truly evil and despicable megalomaniac.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)catbyte
(34,414 posts)line? Sycophant Mike Pompeo.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)He never misses showing the latest Trump picture within seconds of the beginning of his late night show.
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)giving cover to this POS, they keep letting him incite and tell his lies.
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