Trump Camp Refuses To Condemn Rittenhouse: ‘People Have To Defend Themselves Some Way’

Trump campaign press secretary Hogan Gidley on Wednesday seemed to defend Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old vigilante allegedly who traveled out of state and fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before vaguely walking it back.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1330147

Yes, other people had to defend themselves some way FROM Rittenhouse who was armed and shot two people!

You have selective amnesia and you are a true trumpian MORON Gidley!

Trump-LO-Vigilantes

Meanwhile…
Another GOP following the fomenting violence in the footsteps of his Dear Orange Leader and posted on FB = “I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand,”…
FB removed his post for violating the site’s ‘violence and incitement’ policies.

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The Trump Campaign is the crazytrain express to White Supremacistville.

But yeah, Nancy Pelosi had a shampoo and do without a mask in an otherwise empty salon.

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We have tnen the right to defend ourselves fron you

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“He is for safety and security in the communities and for our families.”

Antioch IL is 21 miles from Kenosha WI

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When CNN anchor John Berman asked if President Donald Trump supported out-of-state vigilantes coming in to act as law enforcement, Gidley said Trump “doesn’t” support them, but also Democratic state leaders have “let these looters continue to criminalize our communities” and Trump “doesn’t want that.”

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Never sure if I’ll be shocked as the outrages escalate, or just nod my head because we’ve learned there’s no bottom. This punk gets in his car and borrows a rifle to murder people, because he thinks it’s open season on the libs, and they’re good with it. Murder. Today it’s just nodding my head. Of course they’re whatabouting murder. If the boss is a sadistic sociopath, well, if you’re a team player you’ll get with the program. You are a team player, aren’t you?

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f__ it

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When CNN anchor John Berman asked if President Donald Trump supported out-of-state vigilantes coming in to act as law enforcement, Gidley said Trump “doesn’t” support them, but also Democratic state leaders have “let these looters continue to criminalize our communities” and Trump “doesn’t want that.”

v.o: “previously on ‘The Donald Trump Show’.”

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If Kyle Rittenhouse had travelled to Kenosha with a sack full of soup cans, the conversation would be very different.

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Oh, FFS. People don’t show up to protests with automatic weapons or paintball guns to protect themselves. They do it because they want to shoot someone.

Likewise they don’t show up to protests wearing helmets and body armor and wielding clubs and batons to be peaceful. They just want to rumble.

America.

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Those who have driven in mountainous areas are used to off-ramps for semis.

Quite simply, the way Trump is, there is no off-ramp for him or his minions.

Trump–and the minions–just have to keep on accelerating the derp.

One other thing:

If Trump cannot get people covering him to normalize his increasingly erratic stances, he is in a world of trouble…so we are not just fighting Trump, are we?

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“Trump Camp Refuses To Condemn Rittenhouse…”

They misspelled “Kampf”.

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'We defend the right of our outside agitators to kill others."

FIFY.

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Somewhere deep in the recesses of Gidley’s brain, a realistic worldview is struggling to get out…

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What is needed right now is a rebellion of a wave of Republicans who do not hold elected office. We have some.

We need more.

We need an opposition party. They can be the pioneers. It’s going to have to happen anyway…Why not now?

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Is Trump telling us that he has a death wish? I’m sure voters will be happy to end it all for him in November.

I am out of epithets to use on trump. Almost none are descriptive enough of his evil. So I leave it up to alla my peeps to help.

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62 days
122 days to new Congress
140 days to inauguration

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1301229032558792704

Trump having a rally in NC aboard the museum battleship USS North Carolina (actual WWII Antifa Navy Ship).

Having problems with his speech.

There’s reasons they don’t make battleships anymore, Donnie.

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How many families in Kenosha are named Trump? I’m having a big problem with Trump and surrogates using “our” or “our’s” in relation to anything, or anyone that is not family, or that he doesn’t have a receipt for.

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