Trump Asked If Authorities Could Just Shoot George Floyd Protesters

At the height of the nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd, then-President Donald Trump asked if authorities could simply shoot the Black Lives Matter protesters who had taken to the streets in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, according to a new memoir. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1414239

TFG was holding the upside down Bible in search of a biblical president precedent.

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No one should be surprised by any of this.

They should, however, be aware, that the next GQP President won’t ask for permission first.

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Execrable at every turn. Always says or does the thing that shouldn’t even be countenanced. A walking talking abomination machine.

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And because that “president” will be a Republican, it’ll be perfectly legal. Until one day, summary executions on the street will be normal too.

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Qualified immunity, obviously.

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Fascists act like fascists. It is in their DNA and instinctual for them. We knew it then. We know it now. The warning signs have been and are continually flashing RED!!

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It will make him even more popular with his cult, er, fan club.

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Fuck Esper AND his upcoming rehabilitation tour.

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The problem is that people who would likely support Trump will just love him even more when they hear stories like this whereas people who don’t like him won’t alter their opinion at all.

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Just to be accurate, Trump was NOT holding the Bible upside-down.

People think he did, perhaps because the bookmark ribbon is hanging down from the bottom. But that’s how some people use them.

The thing we know for damn sure, is that he held it with some degree of disdain. Which is more important IMO.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/technology/no-trump-did-not-hold-the-bible-upside-down-at-lafayette-square.html

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There were children at these peaceful protests. My grandchildren were there. Aiming for an adult’s leg could be a bullet through a child’s heart, or brain.

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I remember reading this at the time it happened, and it flew by as just another piece of debris in the tornadic shit storm.

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And TFG wouldn’t have cared one bit.

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the president red faced

This is the part I don’t believe. Maybe “orange-faced.”

The orange makeup is always troweled on so thick, you could never tell if he was red-faced or not.

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Didn’t he just admit to lying to Congress? Or does our Attorney Generaly just no longer consider that a crime?

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“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Trump asked of the protestors, according to Axios’ report on Esper’s book.

“Well, how about throwing dangerous fruit at them? Can you do THAT?”

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Esper is a scumbag and I won’t “read” his “book,” but in this excerpt, I wondered if he wasn’t describing TFG redfaced with panic, beneath the pancake.

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Since it’s coming from the leader of the cult of ultimate asshattery, which considers violence and brutality to be legitimate political discourse, tfg’s comment is in no way surprising.

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