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Jake Tapper asks Whitmer if Trump's praise of Michigan protesters is in same 'vein' as Charlottesville comments
Washington Examiner ^ | May 03, 2020 12:26 PM | by Dominick Mastrangelo

Posted on 05/03/2020 12:38:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk

CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer if President Trump's praise of armed protesters who stormed the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing were comparable to his remarks after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

"These protesters came after President Trump tweeted 'Liberate Michigan,'" Tapper said before mentioning comments made by Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish democratic council of America.

"What kind of depraved elected official calls a heavily-armed militia classified as an antigovernment extremist group blocking a governor's office 'very good people'? Soifer, a Michigan native, asked on Friday. "The same one who called neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville 'very fine people.'"

"Well, some of the outrageousness of what happened at our capitol this week, you know, depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country," Whitmer responded. "The confederate flags and nooses, the swastikas, the, you know, behavior that you’ve seen in all of the clips, is not representative of who we are in Michigan."

Trump urged Whitmer to "make a deal" with the protesters, some of whom came to the rally bearing signs with racist slogans, nooses, and Confederate flags.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: media; michigan; protest; tds; whitmer
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1 posted on 05/03/2020 12:38:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Where is our Freeper with the “not this shit again” guy?


2 posted on 05/03/2020 12:39:35 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (The Nazis were socialists, and all socialists turn into Nazis.)
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To: Hojczyk

Two boobs interviewing each other.


3 posted on 05/03/2020 12:48:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Hojczyk

Fake Tapper.

SMH


4 posted on 05/03/2020 12:50:04 PM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Hojczyk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QlaH00Z4hd8

Swastika pic a hoax


5 posted on 05/03/2020 12:52:35 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Hojczyk

For CNN to give this woman ANY credibility just illustrates how desperate the mindless northeast media has become.


6 posted on 05/03/2020 12:53:17 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Hojczyk
"Whitmer responded. "The confederate flag...is not representative of who we are in Michigan."


7 posted on 05/03/2020 12:54:36 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Hojczyk
Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish democratic council of America.

"What kind of depraved elected official calls a heavily-armed militia classified as an antigovernment extremist group blocking a governor's office 'very good people'? Soifer, a Michigan native, asked on Friday. "The same one who called neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville 'very fine people.'"


Do Jews as a culture (not a religion or ethnicity) have some predilection towards statist collectivism or outright communism?
8 posted on 05/03/2020 12:56:48 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Hojczyk
Two know nothing partisan @ssholes playing with each other.

How incredibly perfect, filled with irony way above their pay grade........

I bet they had an audience of at least 100 people who were interested in their agitprop.

9 posted on 05/03/2020 1:02:43 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Hojczyk

Unlike the violent Antifa retards at Charlottesville, the Michigan protesters remained peaceful. I’m not a fan of waving guns around at an assembly (always let the tyrants shoot first - don’t give them excuses) but they weren’t breaking the law, and were being peaceful.

Democraps are proving that they are basically low IQ apes that only understand coercion and brute force. You know, just like the Communists they are.


10 posted on 05/03/2020 1:11:21 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

The left bas been pulling stunts like this for ages. When I was in college, oftentimes some lackeys from CPUSA would hand out copies of the Daily Worker or some other commie agit prop in invariably with pictures of cops wearing nazi armbands. This was before photoshop but anyone with a basic knowledge of photography can easily doctor newspaper images.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 1:16:12 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Hojczyk

If Jake Crapper really thinks this way he should inject Clorox in HIS veins.


12 posted on 05/03/2020 1:17:50 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Hojczyk

So he’s calling Michiganders Nazis?


13 posted on 05/03/2020 1:55:38 PM PDT by Brilliant
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So he’s calling Michiganders Nazis?


14 posted on 05/03/2020 2:02:44 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Mr. Rabbit
"Democraps are proving that they are basically low IQ apes that only understand coercion and brute force. You know, just like the Communists they are."

They are also slackers. It's easier for them to enact brute force policy than to do the real work of public safety. They want people to wear masks and never work to get real protection on our "T-zone." They force us to run from store to store looking for sanitizers, masks, zinc and etc, but never figure out what is the problem with the supply chain. They never consider that when we go on our Easter egg hunts, we expose our self more as we look.

They don't work to get even the easy fixes for their "dear" citizens in place. Such things as thermal scans for people entering places of commerce, Far UVC lights for public sanitation, coronavirus antibody tests in self-test kiosks that with the results in minutes, the end to plastic bags bans, public wash stations, and a state help line for Q and A with live persons.

I want each state organizing coronovirus task forces that innovate remedies rather then acting like Big Brother.

15 posted on 05/03/2020 2:03:28 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Bratch

When you’re a hammer your soulmate is a sickle.


16 posted on 05/03/2020 2:21:53 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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When you’re a hammer your soulmate is a sickle.

I'm so stealing that.

17 posted on 05/03/2020 2:22:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Welcome to it.


18 posted on 05/03/2020 2:24:01 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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More lies, Trump urged the witch to make a deal with the legislature not the protesters she has ignored the law and kept the lockdown without one thought about the thousands of destroyed businesses


19 posted on 05/03/2020 2:24:42 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Hojczyk

“Why yes, yes it is Jake. Thank you for asking.”


20 posted on 05/03/2020 2:24:55 PM PDT by Cboldt
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