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Home Front: Politix
Biden condemns violence in Portland and calls on Trump to do the same
2020-09-01
[MSN] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
is forcefully condemning the violent mostly peaceful protests that took one life in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday evening, calling on President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
to do the same.

"The deadly violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable," Biden said in a statement on Sunday. "I condemn this violence unequivocally. I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same."
What's he been doing for the past three or four months?
Biden is expected to travel to southwestern Pennsylvania on Monday to deliver remarks intended to contrast his vision of leadership with Trump's, where, according to a statement from his campaign, he'll ask voters to consider whether they are "safe in Donald Trump's America."

Campaign aides had been considering the possibility of Biden traveling to Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake to condemn the violent mostly peaceful protests occurring in the state in person, but ultimately decided against it. Some local officials have raised concerns about Trump's scheduled visit to the city Tuesday, and a Biden campaign official said staff did not want to cause an unnecessary burden or be knocked off course by Trump's taunting criticism.

His trip to Pennsylvania comes after a person was shot and killed in downtown Portland Saturday night after an evening of violent mostly peaceful festivities between Trump supporters and protesters denouncing police brutality. Authorities have not yet provided any details about the suspect or the victim.

For more than 90 consecutive nights, protesters in Portland have denounced police brutality and racial injustice. The protests were spurred by the killing of George Floyd in May and gained steam after last weekend's police shooting of Blake in Wisconsin.

Trump tweeted in encouragement of the caravan of his supporters Sunday morning, calling them "GREAT PATRIOTS!" but has yet to condemn the violence in the city outright besides a litany of tweets and retweets disparaging the city's Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler
...the incompetent but trendy leftist mayor of Portland...
"We must not become a country at war with ourselves," Biden warned in his lengthy statement, arguing that the country is less safe because Trump is president.

"Donald Trump has been President for almost four years. The temperature in the country is higher, tensions run stronger, divisions run deeper. And all of us are less safe because Donald Trump can't do the job of the American president," the former vice president said.

Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown similarly blamed Trump. "For the last several years, and escalating in recent months, President Trump has encouraged division and stoked violence. It happened in Charlottesville. It happened in Kenosha. And now, unfortunately, it is happening in Portland, Oregon," she said in a statement Sunday.
Posted by:Fred

#4  
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-09-01 14:32  

#3  Classic "When Have you stopped beating your wife?" accusation...
Posted by: magpie   2020-09-01 11:04  

#2  It doesn't matter if the viewer only watches MSLSD or CNN.
Posted by: gorb   2020-09-01 09:43  

#1  Biden really is slow. President Trump has been condemning the violence from day one.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2020-09-01 08:16  

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