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posted by martyb on Friday June 05 2020, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-elephant-in-the-room dept.

A serious divide exists among Trump advisers over how to address nights of protests and riots in US after Floyd's death

Trump is being urged by some advisers to formally address the nation and call for calm, while others have said he should condemn the rioting and looting more forcefully or risk losing middle-of-the-road voters in November, according to several sources familiar with the deliberations.

[...] During a staff call Friday, Trump's top domestic policy aide Brooke Rollins argued for a measured response to riots the night before, advice that was echoed by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Several advisers feared, and hoped to avoid, another Charlottesville moment, when Trump was criticized after declaring in 2017 that "very fine people" were among the Nazi mobs that descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia.

[...] While aides like Kushner have pushed for a more restrained response, Trump is also hearing from several advisers who warned that by not condemning the protests after the death of Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man, that turned into rioting and looting, he is risking losing some demographics that will be key to his election victory in November, like suburban women voters.

As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back

The president spent Sunday out of sight, berating opponents on Twitter, even as some of his campaign advisers were recommending that he deliver a televised address to an anxious nation.

how the George Floyd protests left Donald Trump exposed

“Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon – and I mean very soon – come to an end.”
These were the words of Donald Trump, not in May 2020 but July 2016, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the national convention in Cleveland.

[...] Not even Trump’s harshest critics can blame him for a virus believed to have come from a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, nor for an attendant economic collapse, nor for four centuries of slavery, segregation, police brutality and racial injustice.

But they can, and do, point to how he made a bad situation so much worse. The story of Trump’s presidency was arguably always leading to this moment, with its toxic mix of weak moral leadership, racial divisiveness, crass and vulgar rhetoric and an erosion of norms, institutions and trust in traditional information sources. Taken together, these ingredients created a tinderbox poised to explode when crises came.

Antifa: Trump says group will be designated 'terrorist organisation'

"It's ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don't lay the blame on others!" Mr Trump tweeted on Saturday.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Friday June 05 2020, @08:32AM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday June 05 2020, @08:32AM (#1003634) Journal

    I'm not the AC above, but totally identify with everything he or she said. Liberals have been let down by a DNC that has proven itself since the defeat of GWB (at least, though we really should look more closely at Bill), to be wholly on board with the MIC, the surveillance state, Wall Street looters, big pharma and insurance, unnecessary cold war rhetoric, imperialism, divisive identity politics -- to paraphrase you, any liberal adhering to the Democrats is either a liar about being a liberal, or an idiot.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:47AM (#1003639)

    I'm not the AC above, but totally identify with everything he or she said.

    There, there! As the Doc said in "Idiocracy" "there are lots of ex-dems living kick-ass lives!" So don't let being an idiot, or a Republican provocateur, stand in your way! We are all behind you, here at SoylentNoose!

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Friday June 05 2020, @07:56PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday June 05 2020, @07:56PM (#1003930) Journal

    totally identify with everything he or she said.

    Yeah, but Jimmy Carter?

    The DNC exposed itself when they nominated Humphrey.

    And don't taunt the democrats while they have mod points, as you can see, they will send you into the cornfield.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..