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Clueless: Portland Mayor Blames Trump for 'Escalating' Antifa and BLM Riots
pjmedia.com ^ | July 14, 2020 | VICTORIA TAFT

Posted on 07/14/2020 10:15:15 AM PDT by lowbridge

For 46 nights, downtown Portland has been the scene out of a post-apocalyptic graphic novel with shadowy black-clad, tattooed antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters taking hammers and skateboards to bash-in the windows of banks, public buildings, and the heads of federal officers. But now the Portland mayor says the riots are President Trump’s fault.

The Mark O. Hatfield Justice Center, Portland’s federal courthouse, has been under siege nearly every night by rioters attempting to bash in the doors, set fires, and loot it.

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But, sure, Mayor Ted Wheeler says it’s all President Donald Trump’s fault for “escalating” the already-occurring riots because he was “heavy-handed” in keeping the federal courthouse from getting sacked.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: anarchists; antifa; blm; bolsheviks; georgefloydriots; oregon; portland; riots; tedwheeler; trump; wheeler
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1 posted on 07/14/2020 10:15:15 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Playing to the base...


2 posted on 07/14/2020 10:17:39 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: lowbridge

Ted:
You are so stupid and it gives me no pleasure to say that since it’s redundant, as you already know.

You will be held accountable for this as it is your responsibility

Is this what you teach your children?


3 posted on 07/14/2020 10:19:19 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: lowbridge

When the Nazis invaded Poland? Yeah, that was Trump’s fault.


4 posted on 07/14/2020 10:20:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: lowbridge
But, sure, Mayor Ted Wheeler says it’s all President Donald Trump’s fault for “escalating” the already-occurring riots because he was “heavy-handed” in keeping the federal courthouse from getting sacked.

Yes, he should have let the mob burn it down.

5 posted on 07/14/2020 10:20:30 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...Trumps fault.


6 posted on 07/14/2020 10:22:09 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: lowbridge

“...taking hammers and skateboards to bash-in the windows...”

What is it with skateboards??? Is it because all these rioters are teens who have no intelligence???


7 posted on 07/14/2020 10:22:21 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: lowbridge

Thank you DT for turning the mob on its biggest supporters. Freakin genius.


8 posted on 07/14/2020 10:22:24 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: lowbridge

They are not clueless, I don’t think. They have been brought up and trained since childhood to now adulthood to deflect blame to some one else or some other excuse for their own screwups.


9 posted on 07/14/2020 10:22:41 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: jeffc

Playing to the base...

That would be the Marxist base.

BLM = Better Love Marxists


10 posted on 07/14/2020 10:23:59 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: lowbridge

This is why it’s best for Trump to just let these cities fail on their own. Even the slow-witted are beginning to figure out that the leaders they thought would give them free stuff and end all social ills are actually Marxist goofballs.


11 posted on 07/14/2020 10:25:04 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Burn .....it....to...the....ground.


12 posted on 07/14/2020 10:25:18 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: lowbridge

If we had just let them burn the courthouse they would’ve stopped there!

This mayor is evil. Incarnate.


13 posted on 07/14/2020 10:26:31 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: lowbridge
I feel sorry for the Mayor. Either he believes the nonsense he is spouting and therefore has a break with reality or he is knowingly torturing the truth. This is not the behavior of a sane honest person!
14 posted on 07/14/2020 10:27:00 AM PDT by GOWM (grumpy old white man)
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“The President did not quell it, he escalated it. His heavy-handed tactics led to a serious injury and enflamed an already tense situation.”

Eeee yeah, right. The president’s job was to protect Federal Property. That is his responsibility

It is your job to end mob violence in your city. That is your responsibility


15 posted on 07/14/2020 10:27:40 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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I would like to see the Feds plan and execute an enveloping maneuver with 1000s of national guard to capture the entire nightly group of rioters, charging each one in Federal court.

Then, if more show up, let them continue to riot in Portlandia as long as they leave the Federal courthouse alone. In fact, I would like to see that very much along with the entire police department resigning. The people of Oregon deserve to live in a war zone of their own choosing.


16 posted on 07/14/2020 10:28:34 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: lowbridge
Mayor Ted Wheeler says it’s all President Donald Trump’s

Not clueless Low just keeping up the fight. Wish we would return fire but I gave up that hope since I had to start riding my yard tractor to get around my place. I play defense only now.

17 posted on 07/14/2020 10:28:45 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: lowbridge

Hoping that the America-hating rioters attack this man’s office and he calls the White House for help.


18 posted on 07/14/2020 10:28:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: lowbridge

Is this Trump’s cue to step in and clean up the mess?


19 posted on 07/14/2020 10:30:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: shelterguy

When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...


Forget it, he’s on a roll...


20 posted on 07/14/2020 10:30:52 AM PDT by hanamizu
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