Posted on 06/11/2020 8:08:55 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended President Trump’s tweet that falsely accused a 75-year-old anti-racism protester who was shoved to the ground by police of being an “ANTIFA provocateur.”
The president’s tweet appeared to reference a segment that aired on OANN, a right-wing network that routinely disseminates conspiracy theories.
“They’re questions that need to be asked,” McEnany said of Trump’s tweet, which offered zero evidence to back up his claim.
She accused the protester, longtime peace activist Martin Gugino, of having posted “some very questionable” and “profanity-laden” tweets about police.
As of Wednesday, Gugino’s tweets are only viewable to those granted access.
Trump has a history of encouraging violence. In 2017, he encouraged police officers to hit suspects’ heads on the doors of their patrol cars. The following year, he praised a Montana Republican congressman who body-slammed a reporter as “my kind of guy.”
Last month following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, one Trump tweet effectively called for looters to be shot. Twitter then applied a warning label to the post, stating that it violated the site’s rules against glorifying violence.
Kilmeade: Trump tweeted the 75-year-old protester might have been an antifa provocateur, can you expand on that?
McEnany: He was raising questions, there are questions that need to be asked in every case ...This guy had profanity laden tweets
McEnany on Wednesday said there were “a lot of questions” surrounding the incident in which two police officers aggressively pushed Gugino back during a peaceful protest in Buffalo last week.
In his tweet Tuesday, Trump accused Gugino of falling “harder than he was pushed” and using a “scanner” to “black out” officers’ equipment. “Could it be a set up?” the president asked
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No evidence has been publicly presented to suggest this.
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
“The president did have facts before he tweeted it out that undergirded his question,” McEnany said.
Welker asked if McEnany would acknowledge that Trump’s tweet was a “baseless conspiracy theory.” The press secretary said no.
Aaron Rupar
.@kwelkernbc: Is it incumbent upon the president to have facts before he tweets out a conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old man?
McENANY: The president did have facts
WELKER: It's a baseless conspiracy theory
McENANY: It's not [it is]
Smear? Maybe a stain on the pavement. Probably the same POS that was burning his draft card when some were doing their duty.
His friends told the Times that Gugino is not a member of Antifa.
Ah, we have proof that the protestor was a fake.
If the HuffPo clowns think he was real, we KNOW that he was not.
Period.
End.
C’est fini.
The press always hates it when they know that Trump is in control and knows of what he speaks and has the facts to back up his tweets and remarks. They just hate that with a passion.
Still this is affecting a number of white suburban women who are protesting in their safe suburban neighborhoods about what is going on.
it seems they feel bad for everybody except their husbands and sons and brothers and uncles and fathers.
Every other man they feel bad for, as long as he’s not white.
No, he’s a member of other radical groups, though. Not sure where he got antifa.
Hi.
Does Huffpo ever describe their self as “left wing radicals?”
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Themselves?
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This guy showed up looking for trouble and despite 3 warnings, walked into a line of advancing police to disrupt or scan their communications.
Yeah, he’s a real saint.
The MSM is not this disingenuous, they just love the optics - “Trump supports the po-po bullying old man.”
This devious a-hole uses his age as a weapon, as if it’s a badge of immunity.
“OAN promotes conspiracy theories” Isn’t “systemic racism” one of those?
Wasn’t Gigano taken to the hospital in an ambulance? If he had a fake blood pump, surely it would have been obvious to the EMTs.
Gugino
We shall see how true this is ... I remember when Trump claimed ‘Trump Tower’ had been bugged .... the media laughed at him ... then turned out to be true
There is a side view of the old dude falling and letting his head down slowly to the pavement, with a split screen of a stuntman doing it.
I recall reading the Governor, immediately after the incident, stating the protestor was a well know activist who frequently made trouble. (or words to that affect)
I recall reading the governor, immediately after the incident, said the guy was a well-known activist who frequently caused trouble.(or words to that affect)
They’re already covering for their career agitator because they know they’re in the wrong.
There is a side view of the old dude falling and letting his head down slowly to the pavement, with a split screen of a stuntman doing it.75 YEAR OLD MAN PUSHED AND KNOCKED OUT BY BUFFALO POLICE FAKE STUNTMAN SORRY PK TRUTH I WAS OFF
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