Trump Shares Letter Saying White House Protesters Are 'Terrorists'
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Trump Shares Letter Saying White House Protesters Are 'Terrorists'
President Donald Trump shared a letter on Twitter from one of his attorneys that describes the protesters outside the White House as “terrorists.”
Trump said the letter from John Dowd, who represented him during part of the Russia investigation, was “of interest to the American people.”
Dowd’s letter was in reply to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis , who this week said he was appalled by the use of force against largely peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Square, across from the White House. On Monday, those protesters were forced out with tear gas and rubber bullets so Trump could walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church to pose for a photo with a Bible .
Mattis, who had previously avoided speaking out about his former boss, defended the protesters in a letter to The Atlantic .
“The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values — our values as people and our values as a nation,” he wrote. Mattis also said leaders shouldn’t be “distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.”
But Dowd claimed, without evidence, that the protesters were violent.
“The phony protesters near Lafayette park were not peaceful and are not real,” Dowd wrote. “They are terrorists using idle hate filled students to burn and destroy.”
Read the full letter in Trump’s tweet:
Earlier this week, Trump attacked Mattis by claiming it was an “honor” to fire him last year.
John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff at the time, pointed out that Mattis was not fired.
“ The president did not fire him . He did not ask for his resignation,” Kelly told The Washington Post. “The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused.”
Trump later tweeted that he fired Mattis, but Kelly just didn’t know it because his chief of staff was not in his inner circle and was “totally exhausted” by his job.
In 2016, Trump vowed “ to surround myself only with the best and most serious people .” Since then, he has repeatedly attacked many of the people he surrounded himself with, including Mattis and Kelly as well as former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former national security advisor John Bolton, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others.
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"Mattis also said leaders shouldn’t be “distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.”
That's what the "Left" keeps saying, as Business's owned by "Regular People" all over the country, and that actually help the community, are destroyed.
Is Covid-19 still cruising the streets with the "THUGS" too ?
What happened to that " SOCIAL distancing", Law Enforced requirement anyway ?
Protestors and "The Thugs" must have the "Immune Gene" now......I suppose. Immune to "Law Enforcement" that is.
How can marchers brandishing military weapons be considered peaceful.
It is now known that false flag elements among the protestors did the damage.
In fact, children were trained and paid to burn and loot by right wing fascist groups.
I can't be the only one who noticed their BMX/fire bomb military precision.
Wow!. That's something, right there.
"On the other side of the building, (Cincinnati Mayor) John Cranley said, he saw a white man who appeared to hold an incendiary device and repeatedly point to a window.
“He was consistently pointing to a window in full view of the cops,” Cranley said. “He clearly knew he was being watched.”
Cranley believed those “agitators” wanted to provoke police. A police spokesman said several officers, including Chief Eliot Isaac, saw this happen.
“This guy went through the motions of pouring a liquid very conspicuously onto his shirt or a rag … and when he went to throw it, fireworks went off at the same time,” Cranley said. “Then a whole bunch of water bottles were thrown at the cops at the same time.”
Cranley believes their intent was to “provoke a response from police, presumably to get the cops to fire into the crowd.”
Minutes before, Cranley said, he saw a white woman ride by on a bicycle and distribute Popsicles to children at the protests.
“It seems coincidental that it was 10 minutes before the action that they took that she was getting the kids out of the way,” Cranley said. “I can’t prove that it was related, but it seems mighty coincidental. If they believed they could get the cops to overreact and shoot … that might have been an intent to get the kids out of harm’s way.”
"The city of Cincinnati itself doesn't have as strong an organized white supremacist presence as Dayton does, so a lot of the time, if they're here it's because they've traveled from elsewhere, more central in the state,” doctoral sociology student and researcher at the University of Cincinnati Molly Broscoe said.
At least these likely white supremacist agitators were nice enough to try and get kids out of the way before they attacked police and lit shit on fire. It's like a tiny smidgen of humanity, the diamond ring fished out of the middle of a dog shit pile.
Are people calling the peaceful protestors terrorists now?
I think it's just fine to call rioters and looters terrorists but certainly not the people who are just marching, kneeling, or lying down for justice.