I’ve been thinking about doing some kind of special coverage when we get closer to the election. Like, maybe one month out, I think I’ll do some kind of post listing all of the craziest sh-t Donald Trump has said and done over the past four years. I would be doing it for myself too, because I’ve had to force myself to forget large chunks of this presidency just to sleep at night. I’m also bringing this up because there have been so many horrible f–king moments which have defined this authoritarian regime, moments which should have sunk Trump, moments which would have sunk any other president. Saying violent Nazis in Charlottesville were “very fine people.” Tear-gassing kids and clergy in Lafayette Square just so he could stand outside a church, holding a Bible upside down. Hiding in his baby bunker. And now this: refusing to even criticize, much less condemn, the 17-year-old terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse.
President Donald Trump on Monday portrayed the gunman charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., as a victim, suggesting that the Illinois teenager was acting in self-defense. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested last week and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for shooting during an anti-racist protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Video of Rittenhouse at the protests showed him carrying an assault rifle and telling someone on the phone that “I just killed somebody,” according to the criminal complaint against him. He was taken into custody the following day.
The criminal complaint said he killed a man, Joseph Rosenbaum, after Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse and tried to grab his gun. A group of protesters chased after Rittenhouse, yelling that he had shot someone. But speaking at a White House news conference on Monday, Trump suggested that the protesters were the instigators, out to get Rittenhouse, and that he was acting in self-defense.
“That was an interesting situation,” the president said. “He was trying to get away from them, I guess it looks like, and he fell and then they very violently attacked him, and it was something that we are looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would’ve been killed. It’s under investigation.”
The White House has so far avoided commenting on Rittenhouse, saying that there is not enough information on his case. Trump has focused instead on criticizing anti-racist protesters and Democrats for not condemning looting and rioting, even after Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, vehemently condemned rioting and looting in addresses last week and again on Monday.
Trump’s opting to give the benefit of the doubt to Rittenhouse comes in stark contrast to his condemnation of protesters against police violence who have demonstrated in cities across the country. During his Monday news briefing, Trump condemned the fatal shooting of a man suspected to be a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Ore., as MAGA demonstraters and anti-racist protesters faced off in tense clashes. Addressing a CNN reporter, the president said those responsible for that shooting were “your supporters.“
I’ve seen some political commentators rightly say that Joe Biden had actually backed Trump into a corner here, especially with Biden’s speech yesterday, where he flatly condemned looters, rioters, terrorists AND the MAGA Nazi dumbasses. Biden has questioned why Trump cannot do the same, and here was another example of Trump refusing to condemn the violent lunatics “on his side,” working on behalf of the kind of violent authoritarian Nazi vision of America which Trump shares. This is the crux of it. This is the thing. Underline the point and put a bow on it. Trump cannot bring himself to condemn violent MAGA people and Nazis and terrorists because he does not believe they’re doing anything wrong. They’re on “his side.”
Trump defends Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old supporter of his who is charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha pic.twitter.com/KdfkdTPRVG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 31, 2020
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Dude gotta go.
Of course he won’t condemn it. Every time one of his dumbass worshipers whips out a gun and spills some liberal and/or minority blood, he has to struggle to hide his hard-on.
Laugh-cry-puke!!!! Ugh exactly every word of this!!
THIS!!!!!
I long for the days when I thought Dick Cheney was the worst human being on the planet. He no longer cracks the top 10 most evil political figures in DC right now.
Gross, but accurate.
There is another video shot earlier last month
Of Kyle viciously punching a girl multiple times
until he is PULLED off of her.
He is the physical aggressor.
I’m surprised his mom is so silent, perhaps she is yet to be charged as an accessory.
I suspect She is the person he called to say “I killed someone” to on the first video.
Mother of the year drove him and his gun to Kenosha.
Damn. Pretty hard to play badass when Mommy has to drive you to your massacre, isn’t it? Pathetic little racist shit.
She probably bought the gun for him. Or at least paid for it.
The police report shows he called a friend who confirmed what he said.
I’ve been pissed about this since last night. That and the off-the-rails dark shadows group controlling all things Democrat.
I’m from a small European country, our media condamned Kyle R., but 95 percent of the commentators under the articles are on his side. Even the regular Trump haters are all for Kyle. It’s bizzare, but I think the profiles of his victims did that.
I used to be sure Tump won’t win 2nd term, but now I’m not sure. For some reason this is giving him a positive spin. Luckly we don’t vote in the US.
Surely lots are bots? Bots are swaying the debate
Doubt it. The protests have no effect on us and this is the only story with this outcome. Noone would invest in bots for that.
It’s just an odd one out because our media was poor on the details so people went elswhere for the juicy bits and fell for the wrong ones.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a terrorist who crossed state lines to hunt humans.
The NRA has been screaming for years that during acts of terror, we need “good guys with guns.” Kyle Rittenhouse murdered the good guys.
He is underage, drove across state lines with an illegal gun w/the intent to commit violence. (Or help the police keep the peace according to the Idiot in the Oval) he doesn’t get to cry self defense. He murdered 2 people.
You guys memba Trump calling Haiti a “sh*thole”?
I remember when the “law and order” president told people at his rallies to “punch him in the mouth, I’ll pay your fine.”
I remember when the “law and order” president told us “I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose a single vote”, yes I remember.
If he wants to be the “law & Order” President then I suggest he respond to any of the multitude of subpoenas that have his name on them.
I remember when he mocked a disabled reporter.
THAT should have been the end of it.
For the “he was running away” narrative-that was after he killed the first person and people were chasing him to stop him from killing anyone else. So they can miss me with that BS.
yeah, the people who are like “that antifa guy attacked him with a skateboard!” can go F themselves. yeah, AFTER HE SHOT SOMEONE and the skateboard guy was trying to stop him from killing more people.
Isn’t that what they tell teachers to do in active situations? Rush the gunman?
Heck there was a paramedic off duty with a gun who tried to stop him killing people. He lost his arm and somehow the ‘good guy with the gun’ trying to stop a shooter is a bad guy because reasons.
The mental gymnastics is exhausting.
He was spouting more nonsense on Ingraham’s show last night. She kept trying to stop his ramblings, but there are some doozies that will likely make it into a commercial or reel of nonsensical comments.
He makes second-term Reagan look like a fully functioning leader.
That’s going to be a really long list you put together….
Why would he condemn it when he personally supports it and encourages others to be violent?? And when the corrupt, lying, racist dirt bag in the WH encourages violence, then all his supporters will do just as he orders them to do. It’s just so scary how all his supporters look up to him as if he’s a G-d. It’s insane that they turn blind eyes to all the disgraceful and treasonous things DT does, and will continue to do. It’s all good, because if this a-hole gets reelected, and when he doesn’t need his supporters anymore, he’ll f*^k them over like he’s done to everyone else who dares to have a mind of their own and go against Hitler, oops, I meant DT!!
This morning at work, I overheard 2 coworkers (trumpers) talking about how they have started following q anon and how great it is. My jaw hit the floor. I didn’t say anything because, why bother? These people are too far gone. They have been brainwashed by the GOP cult and there is no hope for their minds.
I think we can start the winning bet. He’ll be hospitalized before the election, and if we’re lucky before the first debate. Any interview or quote from him is off the wall.
Why would he condemn it when it is what he has been working toward for the last several years?
Who would’ve thought exposing and confining a maniacal lunatic would be this difficult? How does he keep getting away with gibberish, fraud and murder? Honestly, we have to stop enabling him. He’s sick. Trump belongs in a high-security mental health facility for criminals.
Why should he? This is Biden’s America, isn’t it? 😉
No, seriously, I’m not surprised. He always sides with the white supremacists. He’s despicable and needs to be voted out.
I’m tired.
Trump’s strike/ dementia brain just made up a story about an antifa plane and looters jetting into Wisconsin. Rand Paul wants to investigate the made up plane. S….O….S send help