6/9/20: Yesterday, the president floated another nutty theory. If you don’t have the stomach to check, trust me. The man’s Twitter feed, now approaching 50,000 tweets and retweets since taking office, is a cornucopia of madness and folly.
Look, being a cop –
a good one – must be hard. We saw
what happened to George Floyd, however. That was an outrage.
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Trump says protester faked skull-fracturing fall.
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You don’t have to be a liberal or a conservative to figure out most of these cases of police brutality. In a similar, but less fatal way, when Charlie Chase, an 82-year-old Trump supporter from Fall River, Massachusetts, was attacked by a 27-year-old man, you can’t justify that. Donald Trump Jr., himself, heard about the attack, called the victim, and then tweeted righteous indignation.
For once, the smarmy scion of the president got
it right.
With a nation convulsed by protests over what millions see as a police murder, and with Mr. Chase nursing his bruises, the president continued to shrivel as a leader and as a human being. Yesterday, Trump binged on too much right-wing news. Then he floated a bizarre conspiracy theory. If you missed the tape of another egregious incident in Buffalo, New York, two police officers were seen knocking Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester, over backwards.
I’m a rational kind of person. I doubt their intent was to injure. Still, Gugino stumbled badly, tripped on his own feet, and toppled like a Jefferson Davis statue knocked from its pedestal. His head hit the sidewalk and rebounded slightly. He lay there, blood pooling on the sidewalk. He twitched a little. His phone, which he may have been using to film officers, slid from his hand.
The President of the United States watched the tape. He tuned in to listen to the explanation offered by the nuttiest of nutty right-wing news outlets, and decided it was all a “hoax.” If a stupid idea formed in his head, you knew Trump was going to let it come spilling out on Twitter. “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” he theorized. “75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”
Yes! A “set up!” Gugino ended up in intensive care. As of yesterday, he remained hospitalized.
That faker.
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“A matter of last resort.”
IN OTHER NEWS, even the Trump-friendly New York Post is reporting that the president wanted to fire Secretary of Defense Mark Esper last week.
This came after a hot-headed Trump threatened to send U.S. troops into the nation’s cities and quell protests.
Esper provoked the president’s wrath when he made it clear he did not believe it would be wise. “The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort,” he explained to reporters, “and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now.”
Aides had to talk Trump out of firing yet another cabinet member.
Esper began writing a resignation letter, himself, before his
own aides told him he should not resign.
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