Trump Encourages Governors To 'Dominate' Protesters, Blames Democrats For Unrest

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

President Trump on Monday called governors weak and urged them to "dominate" to prevent further violent demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck.

Plus former Vice President Joe Biden meets with black leaders and is encouraged to listen to younger African-Americans.

This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.0	It's 2.28 Eastern on Monday, June 1st.
0:09.6	I'm Scott Detreau.
0:10.6	I cover the presidential campaign.
0:11.8	I'm Aisha Roscoe.
0:12.8	I cover the White House.
0:14.0	And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
0:16.8	And protests over the death of George Floyd continue throughout the country, from Minneapolis
0:22.0	to Atlanta to Louisville to Los Angeles all the way to the White House in Washington,
0:26.8	DC.
0:27.8	The protesters gathered by the thousands this weekend to speak out against police brutality.
0:39.3	While peaceful protests were the norm from much of the day, many cities saw them turn violent
0:43.6	at times in the evenings.
0:45.6	Cars were burned and buildings were damaged, including a historic church just steps
0:49.4	from the White House.
0:50.7	Police officers shot people with rubber bullets and sprayed tear gas.
0:57.7	Aisha in tweet after tweet, the president sought to place the blame on what he called the
1:02.2	radical left and democratic mayors and governors, making a point to make this a partisan issue.
1:07.8	Yes, I mean, he, President Trump, definitely went to this framing for this issue that is
1:15.6	very kind of comfortable for him.
1:18.3	It's basically just blaming the radical left.
1:22.3	And then calling out a democratic governor and democratic mayors and saying that they're
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