Posted on 05/13/2020 12:00:50 PM PDT by USA Conservative
A day after armed protesters against Michigan’s stay-at-home order entered the statehouse in Lansing, Donald Trump once again expressed support for the rightwing movement.
Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, should he said: “make a deal” with the demonstrators.
“The governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire,” the president wrote in a tweet on Friday morning. “These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.”
She didn’t listen to the President’s advice. Protestors in Michigan planning to rally at the state Capitol on Thursday are being warned that if they bring firearms to the event they will be arrested.
On Monday, Whitmer said she respected people’s rights to protest but was becoming ‘increasingly concerned about the violent nature of the comments being made’ and the ‘extreme rhetoric already connected to Thursday’s rally.’
She has requested that if people decide to protest that they wear masks and practice social distancing.
Whitmer’s comments came after gun-toting militia protesters joined a larger group demanding that she reopen parts of the state’s economy in a demonstration last week. The protesters spilled inside the Capitol, where armed demonstrators confronted police officers and insisted on being allowed onto the House floor as lawmakers debated an extension of her emergency powers.
Allegedly several members of the groups planning on attending the rally called for the assassination of Governor Gretchen Whitmer which saw one man writing: ‘Can we please just take up a collection for an assassin to put that woman from Michigan down.’
Under current state law, it is legal to take firearms inside the Capitol, because Michigan is an open-carry state.
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I'm betting she's lying out her arse.
If Michigan is an open carry state, she will have to legally prove a direct threat to her life .... which she won’t do because she’s not even coming out through the door.
First off, this requires police to comply with the order. This is de facto confiscation of legally owned, private property. I really would be curious to see this happen.
Here we thought Virginia was going to be the 2A litmus test. Crazy how it’s Michigan.
F.U. bitch.
I doubt she got any threats.
Pulling a Smollet she is.
Since using the term “right wing movement” early in the article, why not use the term “left wing” when referring to the Governor? Oh, left wing is never used???
She needs a f***ing Army to show up at her door. Petty dictators need to be defied.
All my life I’ve heard about leftists getting “death threats” and in all cases I can remember, nobody gets arrested or charged. Once again as always, real death threats are a matter for law enforcement. Why tell us?
She’s a fascist, leftist gun grabber, Jim.
The people who made the threats are probably her staffers.
Funny how violating a state law or even city ordinance can result in an arrest, but violating the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, which ALL OTHER LAWS are written under does not.
No penalty for violating the bill of rights. No penalty for subverting the Constitution of the United States.
She needs removed from office BY FORCE of the people.
Dear michiganders...you know what to do. Resist...resist...resist. There is power in numbers. Remember the party of this fascistic authoritarian loser when you vote. In the meantime, embrace the suck of DIM/Leftist “rule”.
People with Red hats, just after she got a giant sub at Subway.
*** Whitmer said she respected people’s rights to protest but was becoming ‘increasingly concerned about the violent nature of the comments being made’ and the ‘extreme rhetoric already connected to Thursday’s rally.’ ***
Everything before the “But” is pure BS. What she wants to emphasize is what comes after.
She will be the poster-woman for every Republican candidate for any public office in Michigan for the next 20 year. “You want more Democrats running your life?”
“I’m betting she’s lying out her arse.”
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
Fewer assumptions and complications.
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