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 ...
Why did this guy supposedly bleed internally form his right ear? Many of us have seen NFL players take some horrendous blows to their heads, some so violent that they remained unconscious for quite some time, yet I don’t ever recall seeing any of them bleeding internally from their ear. Just asking for a friend.
Huffington Post, a left-wing network that routinely disseminates Democratic Party talking points unedited, unanalyzed and in-full.
No, not the Gov, the Mayor.
Either the Huffington post editors do not read anything not on the Huffington Post, or they lie - don’t report all they know if it does not fit the story they want to tell.
If it’s true it ain’t a smear.
Thanks for the link.../s
Stores looted,
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cops murdered,
citizens bullied into cold fear AND THE ONLY THING THE EFFING SHITS IN THE PRESS CARE ABOUT IS ONE OLD MAN PUSHED DOWN?
My God, has it really come to this? Eff you press fools.
Maybe, though it looks to me like he was double masked, the yellow “ thing” runs around his ear and back again to his mask. Why he approached the officer in this tense moment and shoves his hand carrying an object toward the officer’s gut is a good question, of course the officer shoved him (and not very hard, actually).
Maybe, though it looks to me like he was double masked, the yellow “ thing” runs around his ear and back again to his mask. Why he approached the officer in this tense moment and shoves his hand carrying an object toward the officer’s gut is a good question, of course the officer shoved him (and not very hard, actually). The officer’s reaction is totally understandable.
Maybe, though it looks to me like he was double masked, the yellow “ thing” runs around his ear and back again to his mask. Why he approached the officer in this tense moment and shoves his hand carrying an object toward the officer’s gut is a good question, of course the officer shoved him (and not very hard, actually). The officer’s reaction is totally understandable.
Thanks
Smear? What smear?
Found another link, but I’m sure it won’t last long. I guess this is an OAN story and AJ was just reporting on it.
https://youtu.be/_C8hUrAlpLM?t=855
What gets me is how quickly the “blood” gushed from his ear.
Ew Stop posting crap from Huffpo
When the riot police tell you to move, you move. If you don’t, expect the consequences.
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