Biden's event, unlike Trump's, was open to the press. Trump did not make any public appearances on Sunday, and he has no events on his schedule Monday that are open to the press.īiden spent Monday visiting with African American religious leaders in Wilmington, Delaware, to talk about the protests and the anger over police brutality. Trump has not been seen in public since Saturday, when he attended the launch of a SpaceX rocket in Florida. Over the weekend, as protests erupted across the nation, Trump blamed Democratic mayors and governors, the media, the anarchist movement antifa, presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and "thugs" for the protests that turned violent in many cities. Trump's phone call Monday is only the latest example of the president angrily demanding more drastic actions be taken against the mass protests. Turning to Barr, Trump said "Bill, if a brick is thrown at somebody, and it hits them, or maybe if it doesn't hit them, your very tough, strong, powerful people are allowed to fight back against that guy. "You don't have to have a brick hit you in the face, and you don't do anything about it. You know, you're allowed to fight back, folks," Trump told the governors. And they have bricks and rocks, big rocks, and they have other big things, and they throw them. "When they have bricks - you know they come armed with bricks. Later in the call, Trump also offered suggestions of how law enforcement should respond to aggressive protesters, saying, "you're allowed to fight back." For now, National Guard units are being used primarily to secure public buildings, assist with surveillance and protect paramedics and emergency responders, not to interact directly with protesters. Governors in dozens of states have already mobilized state-based National Guard troops to help support local law enforcement. scheduled start time.īarr reportedly told the governors "we have to control the streets," and said this would require "a strong presence" that included the National Guard. The president corrected his spelling error 15 hours later in a subsequent tweet.CNBC reached out to the White House about the call in general and specifically about the exchange with Pritzker.Īttorney General Bill Barr also spoke to governors on the call, which was going on more than an hour after its 11 a.m. “A man who is totally incapable of governing should stay out of Washington state’s business,” wrote Inslee, playing off the president’s spelling error and instructing him to “‘Stoop’ tweeting.” Durkan also included a hashtag supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Go back to your bunker,” Durkan responded Wednesday night, a reference to protests several weeks ago in Washington, D.C., when Trump was rushed to the White House’s safe room as protests turned violent. MOVE FAST!”īut Durkan and Inslee swiftly hit back at the president, mocking his own response to protests outside the White House and his spelling error. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped IMMEDIATELY. Wednesday night, Trump lashed out at state and local leadership, proclaiming that Inslee and Mayor Jenny Durkan, both Democrats, “are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before.” He warned both leaders to “take back your city NOW,” adding that “if you don’t do it, I will.” In Seattle this week though, “what has emerged is an experiment in life without the police - part street festival, part commune,” The New York Times reported, bringing a relative calm to the neighborhood after weeks of unrest though some in the area have questioned the movement’s next steps and the lack of clear leadership, according to The Seattle Times. Trump has pushed especially forcefully for the use of military force to quell racial unrest, accusing rioters of committing “acts of domestic terror.” Across the country and in cities around the world, hundreds of thousands of protesters haven taken to the streets in recent weeks, demonstrations that in some places devolved into looting that prompted a militarized response. The protests were part of weeks of widespread unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis. Biden invites Gianna Floyd to sit at his desk after signing police reform executive order
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