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LessAspin

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Fri May 1, 2020, 08:22 PM May 2020

deadspin: Donald Trump is basically advocating for white violence [View all]




Donald Trump is basically advocating for white violence. His actions continue to prove it.

On Thursday, hundreds of people carrying firearms descended on Michigan’s state capitol building to protest Governor Gretchen Whitner’s stay at home order extension to May 15.

A move that was seemingly constructed to intimidate lawmakers to lift safety restrictions on a state that has been one of the hardest hit by COVID-19. As of Thursday, Michigan had reported nearly 3,800 deaths in total and 119 deaths on Wednesday alone.




On Friday morning, Trump sent out a tweet calling these individuals who swarmed the capitol “very good people.”

He even implored Whitmer to “make them a deal” and instructed her to “give a little.” ...

https://deadspin.com/this-is-why-supporting-heavily-armed-militias-is-danger-1843205460



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