Trump was convinced that the BLM riots were a state and local issue. Which they are.
While Trump could have called out the National Guard, it would have been a huge overreach of his power as president and he would have been clearly stepping on the toes of the individual states involved.
I don't know why city mayors and state governors are so happy to have their cities burned down, but they absolutely were.
Now I think he'd be much better at finding excuses to get the FBI involved, charging specific people with federal crimes as they apply. We will see.
It was weird to watch. Lots of politicians supported the riots and threatened us with riots if we disagreed. Places like Spokane and Cour D'Alene showed up with guns at any fight. Yakima told the 'protesters' directly there were snipers. These parts of the state had no damage but were mocked on TV and called evil by every news site.
Then you saw how the riot organizers were getting paid by some nebulous group. Nothing was grass roots, it was only meant to look that way. Any investigation into that would be insane, because the organizers would act with force.
Trump's record on BLM and Antifa isn't that great.
BLM riots came with only 6 months left in his term, but he didn't act decisively to make examples of them.
He might have been thinking on his reelection back then. I hope this time, since he has nothing to lose, go scortched earth.
If you were to ask me, if i could pick who should get fucked between BLM and Antifa - I would pick these fucking these fags at antifa everytime.
Your mistake is believing they aren't the same thing.
Trump was convinced that the BLM riots were a state and local issue. Which they are.
While Trump could have called out the National Guard, it would have been a huge overreach of his power as president and he would have been clearly stepping on the toes of the individual states involved.
I don't know why city mayors and state governors are so happy to have their cities burned down, but they absolutely were.
Now I think he'd be much better at finding excuses to get the FBI involved, charging specific people with federal crimes as they apply. We will see.
It was weird to watch. Lots of politicians supported the riots and threatened us with riots if we disagreed. Places like Spokane and Cour D'Alene showed up with guns at any fight. Yakima told the 'protesters' directly there were snipers. These parts of the state had no damage but were mocked on TV and called evil by every news site.
Then you saw how the riot organizers were getting paid by some nebulous group. Nothing was grass roots, it was only meant to look that way. Any investigation into that would be insane, because the organizers would act with force.
He should have designated them as the domestic terrorists they are and had the feds rounding them up.