Only hours after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that President Trump would not weigh in on last week's killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Trump not only weighed in but defended the Kenosha Killer:
That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. He was trying to get away from them, I guess, looks like. And he fell and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that we're looking at right now, and it's under investigation, but I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed. It's under investigation.
All Trump need have said was that the matter was under investigation and that he could not comment on a matter pending before the courts other than to lament the loss of life. But Trump was speaking of a youngster who sat in the front row of one of his rallies in Des Moines this past January. So naturally Trump instead went beyond stating the matter was under investigation and defended the Kenosha Killer instead. Indeed, I'm sure those are the sort of statements that will be advanced by his legal defense team.
Never mind that the Kenosha Killer went over state lines with an illegal weapon, used that weapon to kill two people and maim another before crossing back over state lines with the apparent blessing of local authorities. Today, further blessings of the Kenosha Killer's actions were given by a sitting President of the United States. What I saw was very different from what President Trump saw.
A few hours before Trump's press conference, Joe Biden spoke in Pittsburgh and condemned Trump's rhetoric:
Fires are burning and we have a president who fans the flames rather than fighting the flames. But we must not burn, we have to build. This president, long ago, forfeited any moral leadership in this country. He can’t stop the violence because for years he’s fomented it. He may believe mouthing the words law and order makes him strong. But his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is. Does anyone believe there’ll be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?
President Trump not only proved Joe Biden right, but has he now encouraged more Kenosha Killers to cross state lines with deadly weapons for the purpose to cause murder and mayhem in the name of Donald Trump. Only next time this murder and mayhem could take place at the ballot box be it in Milwaukee, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Des Moines, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Austin or anywhere else in between and beyond.
President Trump is going to Kenosha tomorrow. Would it surprise anyone if Trump were to call the Kenosha Killer a patriot and possibly a hero?
Whatever President Trump says in Kenosha it will make Americans less safe and secure.
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