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ARMED WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS!
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“I am outraged,” Budde said in a telephone interview a short time later, pausing between words to emphasize her anger as her voice slightly trembled.
... “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop,” Budde said.
She excoriated the president for standing in front of the church — its windows boarded up with plywood — holding up a Bible, which Budde said “declares that God is love.”
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” Budde of the president. “We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us, and has just used one of the most sacred symbols of the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
Trump did not enter the church on Monday evening. No one associated with St. John’s was present for his visit.
Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at Clemson University who studies Christian nationalism, said Trump’s appearance in front of the building was an attempt to promote the idea of America as a distinctly Christian nation.
“Going to the church, not going in it, not meeting with any clergy, holding up a Bible, but not quoting any scripture, after an authoritarian speech, was about using the religious symbolism for his ends,” Whitehead said.
America doesn't deserve this.
“So, assume that the worst is yet to come,” Will wrote.
MUST READ!
Can anyone explain the posture of political hack AG BILL BARR?
Why is he hunched?
Why is he hunched?
This boggles my mind.
EXCERPTS:
- President Trump said Tuesday that his administration 'has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln'
- Trump made the comment amid days of protests and unrest after the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of a white police officer
- The president's reaction has swung between trying to appease his predominantly white base, while aiming to pull black votes from Joe Biden
- Beyond his Tuesday tweets, Trump's campaign tried to attract black voters by labeling Biden the 'Architect of Mass Incarceration'
- This came after Black Lives Matter protesters were tear-gassed in front of the White House Monday to allow Trump to walk to St. John's church for a picture
President Trump said Tuesday that he ranks No. 2 after Abraham Lincoln - the president who freed the slaves - in helping black America.
'My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln,' the president tweeted. 'Passed Opportunity Zones with Sen. Tim Scott, guaranteed funding for HBCU's, School Choice, passed Criminal Justice Reform, lowest Black unemployment, poverty, and crime rates in history ... ...AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME!'
The president's comments come as the country has seen days of protests and unrest after the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man, at the hands of a white police officer.
Trump's response to the chaos has swung between trying to appease his predominantly white base - while seemingly still aiming at the goal to win over more of the black vote in the November election.
The president's re-election team has made a concerted effort to reach out to black voters, an untapped demographic for most Republican politicians.
Surrogate Katrina Pierson and Scott, a black Republican senator from South Carolina, recently jumped on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's problematic 'you ain't black' gaffe.
Biden had told popular radio show host Charlamagne tha God that he 'ain't black' if you 'have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump.'
The Democrat apologized several hours later on a call with black business leaders saying he shouldn't have been 'so cavalier.'
But while trying to take political advantage of Biden's mistake, Trump on Twitter has dog-whistled using racist language, like calling protesters 'THUGS' and tweeting Friday, 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts' - a 1960s-era phrase used by a racist Miami police chief.
In person, several hours later, he told reporters he had called Floyd's family members and they were 'terrific,' while saying he was unaware that the phrase 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts,' had racist origins.
'But I don't know where it came from, I don't know where it originated,' the president said Friday afternoon.
On Monday Trump said the 'biggest victims' of rioting 'are peace-loving citizens in our poorest communities.' 'I will fight to protect you,' he pledged.
He then used a phrase that would play well for his base: 'I am your president of law an order.'
'And an ally of all peaceful protesters,' he said.
President Trump is photographed outside St. John's Church in Washington Monday afternoon moments after a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest was cleared off H Street using tear gas
Trump's campaign has made a concerted effort to go after the black vote, while Trump has continued to use some langauge that appeases his predominantly white base
Protesters near the White House were tear-gassed Monday afternoon so that the president could walk through Lafayette park and take a photo in front of St. John's Church, which had its basement lit on fire when demonstrations turned ugly over the weekend
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