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Portland Mayor Publicly Defies Trump’s Offer for Federal Aid, Blames President for Fatal Shooting
The Epoch Times ^ | August 30, 2020 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 08/31/2020 10:29:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Mayor Ted Wheeler publicly refused federal aid from President Donald Trump to stop rioting in his city and alleged that the president is responsible for the shooting of a right-wing protester in Portland on Saturday night.

“It’s you who have created the hate and division,” Wheeler said. “What America needs is for you to be stopped,” he added.

The mayor has come under increasing pressure to bring in federal resources after more than 90 straight nights of demonstrations, arson incidents, looting, and unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

Wheeler then said Trump needs to say the names of Floyd and other black people who have died in officer-involved incidents in recent months.

Trump immediately responded to Wheeler on Twitter, saying that he is a “wacky Radical Left” mayor “who has watched great death and destruction of his City during his tenure,” adding that Wheeler thinks “this lawless situation should go on forever.”

Wheeler is now facing calls to resign from his office, namely from progressive and far-left political organizations. However, they asserted that it was the pro-Trump protesters who were responsible for the violence, despite there being months of unrest in the city at the hands of self-described left-wing agitators.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; insurrection; marxists; oregon; portland; revolution; riots; tedwheeler
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1 posted on 08/31/2020 10:29:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It must be liberating to be able to blame others for problems that you created yourself. Especially when you have an amen chorus to back you up.


2 posted on 08/31/2020 10:31:35 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


3 posted on 08/31/2020 10:32:22 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The mayor is certifiably nuts, which is why he is allowing his city to be burned, looted and ruined. And right on Cue, just like Cuomo and the other Leftist’s they blame Trump for what they are 100% responsible for.

It’s bizarro, can’t imagine anyone with sense is buying their lies.


4 posted on 08/31/2020 10:34:20 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Was it Trump said this guy is a fool?.........


5 posted on 08/31/2020 10:35:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................)
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To: 1Old Pro
can’t imagine anyone with sense is buying their lies.

They don't need anyone with sense.

They only need 51% of the voters.

6 posted on 08/31/2020 10:38:03 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are seeing the birth of the Socialist Putsch)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wheeler...you’re responsible for the killing. You have blood on your hands, traitor.


7 posted on 08/31/2020 10:38:05 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What America needs is for mayors like Wheeler to be thrown out of office for dereliction of duty.


8 posted on 08/31/2020 10:38:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Good luck asking President Trump for any federal money for Oregon.


9 posted on 08/31/2020 10:39:43 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Once the BLM/Antifa violence stops and the entire city is burned to a crisp, he’ll be asking for taxpayer $$ to rebuild within 72 hours.


10 posted on 08/31/2020 10:40:29 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Terrorist Wheeler worked with Antifa
to HUNT and KILL proTrump supporters.

First, they murdered the Trump supporters in nursing homes.

and now THIS.


11 posted on 08/31/2020 10:41:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...

OREGON PING

If you’d like to be on the Oregon ping list, please freep mail me.


12 posted on 08/31/2020 10:43:29 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wheeler then said Trump needs to say the names...
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The antifa who harassed Rand Paul the other day badgered him to say the names. Apparently this is now a thing for these people.


13 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:25 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

PROJECTION!!!


14 posted on 08/31/2020 10:46:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This started with Obama and Democrat politicians, “giving them room to riot”.

Obama was president not Trump when this fire was lit and someone told the left that they could loot burn and kill. The left was not held accountable to the laws so they now see themselves as exempt from our laws.

Thanks Obama.

From that and the election of Trump as president, ANTIFA was born to the democrat party.

People, democrats, were told, right here on this board by myself and many others, that ANTIFA were domestic terrorist, violent political terrorists, sponsored by the democrat party. They were also told to get a handle on their democrats terrorist cells before they lost control.

These people denied ANTIFA even existed and continued to tacitly and actually support the political terrorist branch of their party.

This denial has been going on right here on this board and many others for the last 3+ years.

Now that the ANTIFA domestic terrorists are beyond the control of their parent democrat party, finally, last week, Old Joe Bidead has had to come out and make a statement against their political violence.

Then to try and score political points, Bidead and his followers are are now spreading the lie that ANTIFA and their left wing political violence are Trump’s fault.

LETS BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS!!!

HARRIS HAS BEEN PART OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT RAISED MONEY TO PAY THE BAIL ON THESE POLITICAL TERRORISTS AS LATE AS LAST MONTH!

Bidead after finally admitting that ANTIFA existed, finally publicly objected to their violence only a few days ago.

Reagan said it most clearly so I will apply his wisdom to this problem

Old joe Biden who has been a part of the Washington DC mob for 46 years is not part of our nations solution, OLD JOE BIDEN IS PART OF OUR NATIONS PROBLEMS.


15 posted on 08/31/2020 10:52:23 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Enough. Send the US Army in to arrest this communist mayor, his communist city council, the communist district attorney, communist governor and attorney general. Suspend the Oregon government, place it under temporary federal rule, arrest all Antifa satanic terrorist and put this to an end.


16 posted on 08/31/2020 10:52:44 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If the right and left clash in his town again, and he does nothing to stop it, there will almost certainly be a LOT more blood. The right is the side to worry about, when it ramps up to this point.

This is especially true if the dead man was hunted down by the bad players on the left. The guys on the right - armed and trained - will be merciless, once that first shot is fired. For them it will be like a wartime battlefield. There are only friends and enemies. And enemies are to be taken out, post haste.


17 posted on 08/31/2020 10:52:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Invest in America’s future, plant a Leftist.


18 posted on 08/31/2020 10:53:00 AM PDT by semaj (Death to Traitors!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The payoff from a lifetime of drugs & alcohol??????


19 posted on 08/31/2020 10:54:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: FlyingEagle

If Oregon wants to secede, they should just be honest enough to do it. But they think that by seceding informally...that is, rejecting all federal authority and the US Constitution without actually having formally and publicly resolved to do so in their state legislatures...they’ll still keep on collecting federal bucks.


20 posted on 08/31/2020 10:58:04 AM PDT by livius
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