#President Trump cheered on a caravan of his supporters that rolled into Portland on August 29 as "GREAT PATRIOTS", even after videos showed them driving dangerously near protesters, hurling tear gas and paint balls. He and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows pushed the message that Democratic city and state mayors and governors are responsible for the violence. Meadows said that "Most of Donald Trump's America is peaceful." Senior adviser Kellyanne Conway let the cat out of the bag by saying that "chaos, anarchy and vandalism and violence benefit Trump politically."
Trump said the caravan protesters were "peaceful," and he lectured the public that paint is "a defensive mechanism, [and] paint is not bullets." He told a reporter: "Your supporters, and they are your supporters, indeed, shot a young gentleman who -- and killed him, not with paint but with a bullet. And I think it's disgraceful." Trump aligns reporters with violence, but it wasn't the reporter's "supporters" who fatally shot a man on a Portland street; it was a yet-unidentified extremist who did the shooting.
Switching now to Kenosha, Wisconsin, Trump referred to Lyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Illinois resident,who fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third. "That was an interesting situation, you saw the same tape as I saw and he was trying to get away from them, I guess,it looks like. And he fell,and then they violently attacked him. And it's something that we're looking at right now, and it's under investigation." "I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would have been killed." It wasn't "they" who "violently attacked" Rittenhouse -- a single individual threw a plastic bag at him. A preliminary investigation found that none of the three protesters in question were armed. Trump is seemingly setting up Rittenhouse for a self-defense argument, when he should let the judicial process play itself out. A Kenosha GOP chairwoman said: "80% of the people in the city support teenage gunman Kyle Rittenhouse, and the remaining 20% are people that can't stand Trump."
Wide bands of social media have risen up in arms by seeing Rittenhouse with arms raised up, and his rifle swinging in front of him, as he passed any number of law enforcement and National Guard vehicles without anyone stopping to question him. He was arrested in Illinois after his mother apparently drove him home.
#In North Carolina, Trump encouraged people to vote twice -- once by mail, and once in person -- to test the protections intended to guard against double voting. Intentionally voting twice is illegal and in many states, including North Carolina, it is a felony.
#The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an order banning landlords from evicting tenants that can no longer pay rent due to a pandemic-related expense or hardship through the end of 2020. This is a test of the CDC's power that will prompt several legal challenges. Advocates for both tenants and the real estate industry fear that the expiration protections at the end of the year could create a dangerous housing crisis at the start of 2021. Tenants will be required to pay all of their rent due per the terms of their leases. Landlords could be hit with a steep drop in income and be forced to sell their properties or take on massive debt.
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