In a CBS interview….
President Trump played off the ‘Black Live Matter’ movement with his often heard support of White Lives matter also…He also supported a man and woman under investigation for waving loaded guns at protestors in St’ Louis last month along with keeping the Confederate flag displayed …
Trump has used devisive racial comments all thru his Presidency and isn’t gonna stop with less than 4 months forma the coming general election…
He does NOT feel he has to sympathise with racism against Blacks, Browns or Yellows in America now, or in the past….
As the nation faces a reckoning on anti-Black racism, President Donald Trump pushed an interview Tuesday to focus on white people.
Speaking with CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, the president claimed that more white people die at the hands of police than Black people, that the Confederate battle flag is a beloved symbol equal to the Black Lives Matter movement and that a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters had a right to do so.
The remarks come as the nation continues to openly grapple with racism after the death of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Trump said Floyd’s death was “terrible,” but when Herridge asked him why Black people continue to die at the hands of police in the country, the president rejected the premise.
“So are white people. So are white people,” Trump said emphatically while staring Herridge down. “What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people.”
Numerous studies have shown that Black Americans are more likely to die during interactions with law enforcement officers than whites. One studyrevealed that, although 52 percent of those killed by police in 17 states from 2009 to 2012 were white, Black people had a fatality rate 2.8 times higher than white people.
Herridge also asked Trump for his views on the Confederate battle flag, which has faced renewed calls for removal from public places. NASCAR and the Marine Corps notably banned the flag last month. Herridge specifically pointed out that the flag is a painful reminder of slavery for many Americans, but Trump cut in to say that “people love it.”
“I know people that like the Confederate flag, and they’re not thinking about slavery,” the president said. “I look at NASCAR. You go to NASCAR. You had those flags all over the place. They stopped it. I just think it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter or anything else you want to talk about. It’s freedom of speech.”
Trump also came to the defense of a St. Louis couple who went viral after videos showed them pointing guns and yelling at anti-racism protesters who walked by their house. The couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, later had their gun confiscated by police as part of an investigation into the confrontation…..
image…AP
If people like the Confederate flag, they have the freedom of speech to display it at their home or on their private property. The same with a Swastika. That’s what freedom is about in America.
Certainly though, private organizations like NASCAR have the freedom to ban it for economic and moral reasons and there should be no place for such an anti-American symbol on public property anywhere.
Trump himself almost certainly has no real core conviction about the Confederate flag, but just sees this, like he sees everything else about himself. He thinks the people that like the flag like him and those who do not like the flag tend to not like him. He is not incorrect on that.
Yes…
Trump I believe Trump couldn’t give a rats ass about the Confederate flag…
It’s just a prop he uses on his stage act…
AOC responding to Trump’s claims that she doesn’t have any “talent.”
“A man whose entire life was built on a rich blend of daddy’s money and financial fraud accuses me, daughter of a house cleaner who won multiple elections to Congress by the age of 30, of not having talent”
It’s a good response, but technically, she has only been elected to Congress once.
She is CORRECT….
TWO primaries and one for the job….
So the picture is of the McCloskey’s. A married St. Louis attorney couple who were made into countless memes a couple weeks ago when they decided to pursue 15 minutes of fame by brandishing weapons when peaceful protesters were walking down their private street.
Apparently Missouri Gov Mile Parson is attempting to get Trump involved as St. Louis police have presented a warrant on weapons charges to the Circuit Attorney–Kim Gardner– and her office is currently investigating.
My hope is that the Circuit Attorney doesn’t press charges on this and Missouri’s Governor and our President focus on COVID and leave these two ambulance chasers to live on in perpetuity in internet memes.
I’m happily voting against Gardner in the August primary and against Parson and Trump in November.
Let’s clean house.
But if Gardner wins the primary, you will vote for her?
I voted against my incumbent States’ Attorney in the D primary this year too!
I’m pretty sure the winner of the Democratic primary for Circuit
AttormetAttorney will be unopposed in the fallYou can write in Jim Edmonds. That guy is a paragon of virtue.
I wouldn’t be surprised Scott if Trump reaches out on this……
Fits his pattern of him bending the law for those he likes…
I know nothing about the McCloskeys but who the hell picked his outfit that day?
She looks like she already had jail on her mind in her choice.
She seems to have her finger on the trigger some say and THAT IS against safety and the law I believe
Donald Trump resides in a Alternate Reality…
They have a history of suing their neighbors and generally being assholes. No surprise they are Trump Republicans. Though they live in arguably the most progressive neighborhood of s city that votes 80% Democrat.
They seem stressed ….
Maybe they should MOVE ?