In this precarious situation, in which every word, every gesture counts, happens Trump according to many commentators as a “fire accelerator”. Since the protests began to emerge, the president has been calling for their violent suppression with steadily escalating rhetoric, because only radical left-wing circles were behind it. “When the looting begins, the shooting begins,” he quoted a police chief known for racist state power in the 1960s, triggering horror even with confidence.
Trump wants tougher gait
Demanded on Sunday Trump Governors and mayors to take a “tougher gait” against the demonstrators he was wrongly shorn. “The world laughs at you and the sleepy Joe from, “said Trump in a helpless attempt to misery his democratic challenger Joe Biden attach.
Trump has so far not recognized with any syllable that after Minneapolis has opened a huge valve and pent-up anger over decades Police violence against minorities and cemented social disadvantage. The Democrats and many media see this as evidence of dullness and ignorance – and as a guarantee of further escalation.
“It continues to escalate”
Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland and thus in Trumps Party camp, accused the President of irresponsible heating: “He doesn’t lower the temperature. It escalates the rhetoric. “
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