ROOTING FOR RIOTS
DONALD Trump Jr has slammed Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, and other Democratic leaders for what he says is “cheering on the violent left every step of the way.”
The president’s eldest son out an edited video on Monday of people including CNN and MSNBC anchors, actors and , and others, discussing violence among protesters.
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In the clip, is seen at a press conference saying: “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be.”
“You know there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives,” Representative Ayanna Pressley, a who represents , states.
next says: “Show me where it says that protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”
De Niro is then heard saying in a 2016 video of : “I’d like to punch him in the face.”
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The video then pivots to Democratic presidential nominee saying “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
The footage was edited by The Cauldron Pool, a "questionable source" with "extreme bias" that pushes conspiracies.
tweeted alongside the clip: "Dem leaders and their allies in the media cheered on the violent left every step of the way…"
The summer of 2020 has been rife with clashes between protesters and right-wing supporters of Trump.
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On Saturday, a man was killed in , after roughly 600 vehicles packed with Trump supporters drove through the city, met by counterprotesters.
Fights broke out among the two different groups, .
It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooting was related to the clashes between Trump supporters and counterprotesters in Portland.
, Trump and other speakers spoke of a violent, dystopian future if Biden wins in November.
They used Portland as a cautionary tale for what would be in store for Americans, .
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Days before the right-wing demonstrator was killed in Portland, two Black Lives Matter supporters were killed in .
Police have said , a white 17-year-old, and injured a third person with an AR-15.
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The protests in Kenosha, and across the country, have come following the shooting of – a 29-year-old black man and father .
Both Democrats and Republicans have blamed either side for violence increasingly breaking out across the country.
Biden has repeatedly denounced violence at these protests, and last week accused Trump of viewing the violence as a “political benefit.”
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