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At this point, nobody should be expecting Donald Trump to condemn the things his supporters do, but after last week’s shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the president appears to have thrown his lot entirely behind the right-wing defense of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse shot 3, killing 2, during protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI.
When asked about it, Trump leaned into the right-wing narrative that Rittenhouse’s shootings were committed in self-defense, saying quote: “He probably would have been killed.”
Trump also refused to condem the widespread violence perpetrated by his supporters in Portland over the weekend, where a truck convoy of Trump supporters sprayed protesters with mace and shot them with paintballs.
Trump referred to his supporters as quote “Peaceful,” and added quote “paint is not bullets.”
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign and other conservative voices are doing everything they can to blame the increasing violence at protests around the country on, uh, Joe Biden.
But in a speech on Monday, Biden wasted no time in decrying all such behavior. He said quote: “I urge the President to join me in saying that while peaceful protest is a right — a necessity — violence is wrong, period. No matter who does it, no matter what political affiliation."
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