Republicans Plead for Calm, But Trump Won’t
Politico reports As Trump rages, Republicans Plead for Calm.
President Donald Trump spent Monday further fanning the flames of confrontation between protesters and police. And some Republicans are urging the president to extinguish them.
Some said they’d like to hear him make a national address, a move Trump had avoided for days despite deepening nationwide angst.
With more than a dozen major cities embroiled in violent clashes between police and protesters as well as riots and looting, Trump spent Monday dressing down governors as “weak” and ordering them to “dominate” demonstrators.
On Twitter, Trump bragged about his poll numbers and attacked former Vice President Joe Biden as “sleepy” and his staff as “radical” for donating money to help bail out protesters. He also endorsed an idea from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) to deploy the military to quell protests.
Republican Comments
- “We are obviously in a divisive situation right now that’s escalating, and I think he needs to make more unifying comments,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) agreed it would be a good idea for Trump to give a national address. But he declined “to comment about the tone of his tweets.”
- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a close Trump ally, took to the Senate floor on Monday afternoon and sympathized with peaceful protesters while urging an end to the violence and reading into the Senate record details of Floyd’s death.
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the country “cannot deafen itself to the anger, pain, or frustration of black Americans,”
- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said, “George Floyd deserved better — all black American do.”
Trump Backers Block Highways
Note that Trump Backers Block Highways as Election Tensions Play Out in the Streets
Vehicles with Trump flags halted traffic on Sunday on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and jammed the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge between Tarrytown and Nyack, N.Y. Another pro-Trump convoy in Virginia ended in a tense shouting match with protesters as it approached a statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond.
In Georgia, a rally for Democrats was canceled shortly before it was scheduled to begin on Sunday, with organizers worried about what they feared would be a “large militia presence” drawn by President Trump’s own event nearby.
Sunday’s incidents came a day after a group of Trump supporters in Texas, driving trucks and waving Trump flags, surrounded and slowed a Biden-Harris campaign bus as it drove on Interstate 35, leading to the cancellation of two planned rallies. The F.B.I. confirmed on Sunday that it was investigating the incident.
On Saturday, President Trump tweeted a video of the incident with a message, “I love Texas!” After the F.B.I. announced it was investigating, he tweeted again, saying, “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong,” and instead “the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA.”
This is minor stuff compared to looting, but causing a 5-mile backup for hours is certainly neither Law nor Order.
It will not take much to ignite riots. Some might suggest that Mr. Law and Order wants them.
My Suggested Three-Point Plea
- “Violence will not change the past. It will only hurt the future. And it hurts minority communities and businesses the most. Please do not react with violence no matter who wins the election.”
- “I will honor the results of the election no matter who wins.”
- “I will not preemptively declare victory until there is a mathematical certainty that enough votes have been counted and that includes honoring late votes in states that allow it.”
The likelihood of that today is approximately zero, but Biden can and should say those things even if Trump never would.
Mish
Ho Hum. A peaceful election day. Who is pushing the crisis button? The system works. Votes will be counted as long as they are post marked on election day. The votes are delayed because of Democrats insisting on using the Virus to expand absentee voting without proper preparation.
Trump is the only one encouraging violence and promoting that the election is rigged against him. Trump is the one that needs to act like an adult. Biden already does.
Trump is certainly polarizing but the left has been fomenting ‘resistance’ in the streets for 4 years without a pause. I think the violence pendulum has definitely swung back to the left as it was in the late 60s and 70s. If Biden wins I seriously doubt there will be looting, torching and random acts of violence. If Trump wins, it’s almost guaranteed.
when you examine reports over past few months
everyone saw(even dimwitted pelosi) that riots (which they started – liberals) were HURTING DEMENTIA JOE
now only thing is to count ballots and find out which states liberals are thieving on
They could call for calm, but I bet the media wouldn’t run with it. Calm isn’t good for viewership.
So you don’t think flying pigs would make the news? I can’t agree.
We’re numb to this kind of buffoonery… NUMB, Stan.
Yes we have not the slightest oinkling of what you mean
four years of Trump should tell you that will not happen. If anything he encourages it
M
Governor 50 BMI of Illinois hiding out at his Lake Geneva WI estate guarded by Illinois State Police. Some officers have been seen picking up the old feed bag for him at local restaurants like Oakfire.
One big difference:
Protestors on the far right adore, respect and listen to Trump.
Protestors on the far left do not adore, respect and listen to Biden.
They might respect him. The other two you are one target.
I think ‘Will Tolerate’ is a better word
All these stories about violence, why? Trump seems to want it but honestly I doubt it will happen. I suspect any election violence will be prosecuted fully and I doubt any but the most ardent supporters want to go to jail over any of the candidates.
Not going to happen, the broad base of Trump supporters if proven wrong and Trump loses in a landslide will slink bank into themselves for a few days and then eventually move on from Trump was always an extremely flawed candidate for them but was more of a marriage of convenience.
Unlike Trump I don’t see where Biden has ever incited his supporters to violence and he’s already said he’d honor the results. Trump is the problem here.
Get ready to pull a pig from the air when T makes that speech.
A scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on the frog’s back. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I couldn’t help it. It’s in my nature.”
so far so good today… no armed vigilante groups of “proud boys” or other white supremecist have made the news. No mass disposal of ballots thrown in the trash on a technicality. if these events hold up today then there will be no violence
I hope you are correct but I did not expect anything major today.
I hope Jussie Smolette (star of hit tv show!) is in a safe space in case Trump shows up in Wicker Park tonight.