Donald Trump’s Attorney General was thinking about arresting the Mayor and several officials in Portland, Oregon because they allowed protests to continue in that city….
We also now find out that Barr wanted to also arrest the Mayor of Seattle , Wash. for allowing protests there also…
Somebody must have figured out such a move would cause a media focus that would have resulted in a HUGE issue with local and state governments and MORE protests and a lousy court case smelling of political posturing and government grab of likes we have seen by the Russians….
(Seems like a Trump idea of’seizing’ those cities by the Feds which would have REALLY caused a ‘shit show’ in the media)…
For many nights, federal officials were told that Portland police officers were explicitly told not to respond to the federal courthouse as hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside, some throwing bricks, rocks and other projectiles at officers, and not to assist federal officers who were sent to try to quell the unrest.
The department had done research on whether it could pursue the charges, spokesperson Kerri Kupec said. She declined to comment on the status or whether charges would be brought. But bringing criminal civil rights charges against city officials for protest-related violence would likely present an uphill court battle for federal prosecutors.
Justice Department officials disputed news reports that Attorney General William Barr told prosecutors in the department’s civil rights division to explore whether they could bring charges against Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan for allowing some residents to establish a protest zone this summer.
President Donald Trump has blamed Democrats, and specifically pointed to Portland’s mayor Ted Wheeler, who he says have not done enough to stop nights of looting and unrest in cities across the U.S. Trump has called Wheeler a “wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor” and has said the city “will never recover with a fool for a Mayor….”
Trump has heaped blame for the unrest on Democrats who are leading the cities where violence has occurred and tried to keep focus squarely on pockets of protest-related violence, instead of on the point of police reform and the larger movement of racial injustice….
Perusing Politicalwire headlines it looks like the Trump campaign has gone from abandoning the “Law and Order” message in ads to focus on economic message to Trump now stating that schools shouldn’t teach lessons based on the wrongs of slavery and racism.
This is a campaign in complete drift.
I posted up here that Biden is actually WINNING the Law and Order thing….
Donald Trump IS running against HIMSELF….