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Trump says some state orders are 'too tough', stands by tweet encouraging anti-lockdown groups
NBC News ^ | April 17, 2020 | Lauren Egan

Posted on 04/18/2020 4:29:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday encouraged an anti-lockdown group that is scheduled to protest in Minnesota against stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus and he appeared to back such efforts in other states, arguing that "elements" of some state regulations were "just too tough."

"I think elements of what they've done are just too tough," Trump said at the daily White House press briefing Friday evening when asked about a tweet — "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" — that he posted earlier in the day.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: liberate; lockdown; minnesota; protest; shutdown; tweet
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Liberate Michigan
1 posted on 04/18/2020 4:29:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Free the Freak State!


2 posted on 04/18/2020 4:30:57 AM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Liberate SC.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 4:36:15 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Open the Mother Up!


4 posted on 04/18/2020 4:38:47 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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president trump, speaking truth to power!


5 posted on 04/18/2020 4:39:55 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Liberate Mexifornia! I believe that as time goes on,even here in California most people are going to get tired quickly of this sham. 88% of the cases in L.A. county are people with pre existing conditions. At least half of them are in convalescent homes. You’ve got to be an idiot or a good little commie to be driving down the road alone in your car with a mask on.


6 posted on 04/18/2020 4:44:34 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

Oh and by the way. #Nuke China.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 4:45:52 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
We need to reopen the economy, obviously, but we have to do it carefully. This pandemic is not some kind of hoax.


8 posted on 04/18/2020 5:07:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Trump says some state orders are 'too tough', stands by tweet encouraging anti-lockdown groups

Then do something about it. Trump said he alone has the authority to open up the country. Instead of delegating that to the governors take action on his own in those states where the governors are too tough.

9 posted on 04/18/2020 5:24:37 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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president trump, speaking truth to power!

Trump's supposed to be the power, not the governors.

10 posted on 04/18/2020 5:25:43 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I kinda wish President Trump would put out this short and simple tweet:

“Ya know, we still have a second amendment. Just saying.”


11 posted on 04/18/2020 5:33:38 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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Dem Governors are non essential!

Stop the tyranny! Fire the SOBs!

12 posted on 04/18/2020 5:41:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs, their blatant ownership of America, fake news media/CNN, the real Deep Staters?)
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Good to see you’ve broken free from one-dimensional thinking.

This is frankly out of your control though, and the government’s. Public patience with the situation is running out. We are going to see a mass jailbreak, and whatever happens happens.

Best laid plans do not survive First Contact with reality.


13 posted on 04/18/2020 6:23:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: RandallFlagg

Great how Trump baited the idiot press into giving him a national platform to preach 2A.


14 posted on 04/18/2020 6:25:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Liberate Kentucky.


15 posted on 04/18/2020 6:44:39 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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Here in the People’s Republic of Virginia, 1% of our population has the virus (it’s probably 2 to 3x that) and a little over 200 people have died with a median age over 80.

SO, 7.7 million of us are locked in/locked down. In almost 40,000 square miles of land that is mostly rural, mountainous, and lowly populated. And this makes sense?

QUESTION: Does our wimpy Marxist governor have the authority to over-rule our nation’s Constitution? Do I, as a Christian citizen of both the USA and Virginia have to accept his orders - when they are in violation of our Constitution?

I personally think not.


16 posted on 04/18/2020 7:01:42 AM PDT by Arlis
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This shutdown
Is a
Threat to our
National Security.
We Have been Attacked
and our Economy is
being Jeprodized.


17 posted on 04/18/2020 7:15:50 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: Arlis

Fine if the Virginia Dem cities want to shut down as that’s where the disease is........

But leave those of us who live in the country and are rural alone, and free.......


18 posted on 04/18/2020 7:26:33 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: Big Red Badger

Trump should
Approach this
Lockdown as a
Threat to
National Security.


19 posted on 04/18/2020 7:36:32 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: Travis McGee

Give it up Travis, everyone is on to you and your tricks.

You spent all your good will trying to panic readers with wild predictions of devastation, illustrated with colorful charts, reminiscent of those used by Left Wing thugs all down through history to bend the populace into accepting of a Big Left Wing Government solution.

Some of us think you might even be on the Chinese payroll, as that is the most reasonable explanation of why you’ve been doing what you have for that past couple of months.


20 posted on 04/18/2020 11:06:34 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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