Trump refuses to denounce violent actions by right-wing agitators

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

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President Trump refused to denounce the actions of his supporters in Portland and Wisconsin. Trump also said Kyle Rittenhouse, who is facing homicide charges as well as a felony charge for attempted homicide, “probably would have been killed” had he not fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The President warned Americans that the violence they’re seeing in cities right now is what a Biden presidency would be like. Van Jones, former Special Adviser to President Obama and a CNN Political Commentator, tells Anderson Cooper Trump loves to act like the tough guy but he often is whining and complaining. Plus, Trump also went into a lengthy defense apparently aimed at police officers who he says “choke” and went on to say, “We don’t want to have, when somebody makes a mistake, he chokes, or in some cases you have bad cops, we have to take care of that. In other cases they choke. They’re under – they have a quarter of a second. A quarter of a second to make a decision, and sometimes they make the wrong decision. If they make the wrong decision you know if they make the wrong decision in the other direction they’re probably dead.” Charles Ramsey, former Philadelphia Police Commissioner joins AC360 to react to the President’s comments and says he thinks it’s a “slap in the face to the men and women across the country who face danger every single day and believe me, they do not choke.” Airdate: August 31, 2020 Guests: Van Jones Charles Ramsey To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, if there was any doubt at all about what President Trump intends to make his central
0:05.2	campaign issue, there is none at all tonight.
0:08.8	John Burman here in Foranderson, there is a pandemic you might have heard that has killed
0:13.8	183,000 Americans.
0:16.8	The president's central campaign issue is not that.
0:19.8	It is affirmatively and specifically and intentionally not that.
0:24.2	Now, we know what it is because he puts it in all caps on his official White House
0:28.5	stationery, known as Twitter, Law and Order.
0:32.8	Law and Order?
0:33.8	He has 10 campaign or administration associates charged or convicted of crimes.
0:38.5	Law and Order, his own company, which he never divested from, is under investigation in
0:42.7	the state of New York.
0:44.3	Law and Order, he defended his supporters who shot paintballs into crowds in Portland
0:49.5	and a supporter who has charged in two deaths in Kenosha, Wisconsin after the police shooting
0:53.8	of Jacob Blake.
0:55.6	Law and Order seems to be pretty selective as long as it doesn't apply to him and his
0:59.4	supporters and as long as it benefits him politically.
1:03.3	He opined that his visit to Kenosha tomorrow might generate enthusiasm, enthusiasm for what
1:09.7	exactly?
1:10.7	Yesterday, he had dozens of tweets and retweets cheering aggressive and sometimes violent
1:15.3	counter protesters in Portland.
1:17.6	He liked his sympathetic tweet about Kyle Rittenhouse, the alleged Kenosha shooter.
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