- b.c.,
On Saturday, August 17th, Donald J. Trump, the occupant of the highest office in the land, who has long employed hateful, racist rhetoric throughout his campaign and since his occupancy, and who has by executive order, enabled and PROTECTED the spread and dissemination of hate speech on our nation's college campuses,
OFFICIALLY sided with right winged hate groups who gathered in Portland, Oregon, in a deliberate effort to incite a response from opposing demonstrators, conveniently and collectively branded "Antifa" by Trump and right wingers, for the sole purpose of trying to get the latter branded a "terrorist organization" by Individual 1.
And in anticipation of that, Trump himself weighed in, an hour before the start to add fuel to the mix as if he were IN on the plan.
There’s a Standoff Between Far-Right and Far-Left Groups in Portland. Trump Just Picked Sides. – Mother Jones
"In a tweet an hour before the rally was expected to begin, Donald Trump weighed in, noting that he was giving “major consideration” to naming Antifa an “organization of terror.”
It was a curious decision, to say the least.
The Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” organization, has been designated as a general hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It has organized a number of rallies in Portland over the last three years, and each of them have come with their attendant threats of—and at times, realized—violence."
Trump, for his part, DELIBERATELY targeted left winged demonstrators, thereby giving the right winged hate groups who assembled in Portland to PROVOKE a confrontation, reason to celebrate their legitimization by the bigot-in-chief HIMSELF:
Proud Boys Declare Portland Rally a Success: ‘Go Look at President Trump’s Twitter’
But the groups he legitimized and sanctioned, Saturday, weren't just members of the so-called "Proud" boys. Fact is, among those who Trump, for all practical purposes, gave his blessings to, and DIDN'T bother to mention or "warn", included a veritable ROGUES GALLERY of HATE:
Portland mayor decries violence, hatred ahead of rally - Associated Press
"Also expected at the Saturday event [were] members of the American Guard, Three Percenters, Oathkeepers and Daily Stormers.
American Guard is a white nationalist group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
while Three Percenters and Oathkeepers are extremist, anti-government militias.
The Daily Stormers are neo-Nazis, according to the center."
OFFICIALLY sided with right winged hate groups who gathered in Portland, Oregon, in a deliberate effort to incite a response from opposing demonstrators, conveniently and collectively branded "Antifa" by Trump and right wingers, for the sole purpose of trying to get the latter branded a "terrorist organization" by Individual 1.
And in anticipation of that, Trump himself weighed in, an hour before the start to add fuel to the mix as if he were IN on the plan.
There’s a Standoff Between Far-Right and Far-Left Groups in Portland. Trump Just Picked Sides. – Mother Jones
"In a tweet an hour before the rally was expected to begin, Donald Trump weighed in, noting that he was giving “major consideration” to naming Antifa an “organization of terror.”
It was a curious decision, to say the least.
The Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” organization, has been designated as a general hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It has organized a number of rallies in Portland over the last three years, and each of them have come with their attendant threats of—and at times, realized—violence."
Trump, for his part, DELIBERATELY targeted left winged demonstrators, thereby giving the right winged hate groups who assembled in Portland to PROVOKE a confrontation, reason to celebrate their legitimization by the bigot-in-chief HIMSELF:
Proud Boys Declare Portland Rally a Success: ‘Go Look at President Trump’s Twitter’
But the groups he legitimized and sanctioned, Saturday, weren't just members of the so-called "Proud" boys. Fact is, among those who Trump, for all practical purposes, gave his blessings to, and DIDN'T bother to mention or "warn", included a veritable ROGUES GALLERY of HATE:
Portland mayor decries violence, hatred ahead of rally - Associated Press
"Also expected at the Saturday event [were] members of the American Guard, Three Percenters, Oathkeepers and Daily Stormers.
American Guard is a white nationalist group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
while Three Percenters and Oathkeepers are extremist, anti-government militias.
The Daily Stormers are neo-Nazis, according to the center."