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Trump praised Walz's George Floyd riot response in 2020, audio shows: 'Very happy'
Fox News ^ | Story by Stephen Sorace

Posted on 08/09/2024 10:33:38 AM PDT by NoLibZone

As former President Trump blasts Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the unrest in his state in May 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, a resurfaced audio recording shows that Trump had praised Walz at the time for how he "dominated" the situation.

In the audio recording, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Trump was on a phone call with Walz and other governors and officials on June 1, 2020.

"What they did in Minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately," Trump told Walz and the others on the call.

Trump didn’t blame Walz at the time for the delays, later saying: "I don't blame you. I blame the mayor."

"I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim," Trump said during the call. "You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast, it was like bowling pins."

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1 posted on 08/09/2024 10:33:38 AM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

This is total BS. Total BS. Fox News is saying this?

Trump called the guy on day one and asked to help. Walz refused to send out the guard. The mayor asked too. Walz said no.

On day THREE Trump called again. I don’t if he threatened him or what he did. The guard were FINALLY called out and the riots quelled in minutes.

Afterwards, he did praise him.

THOSE ARE THE FACTS.


2 posted on 08/09/2024 10:38:59 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: NoLibZone

This will be good for a lot of mileage here at FR...as if things aren’t already goofy enough...The replies to this will be interesting...I’m going to go read and nap!


3 posted on 08/09/2024 10:39:20 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: NoLibZone

Could be AI


4 posted on 08/09/2024 10:40:07 AM PDT by GrandmaPatriot
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To: nikos1121

Thanks.


5 posted on 08/09/2024 10:40:41 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: NoLibZone

Faux News.


6 posted on 08/09/2024 10:41:34 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: NoLibZone

So what? All DJT did was recalibrate his position.


7 posted on 08/09/2024 10:42:20 AM PDT by SteveinSATX (Anti-liberalism 24/7)
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To: NoLibZone

This is a total lie.


8 posted on 08/09/2024 10:42:57 AM PDT by Tom in SFCA
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To: NoLibZone

Keywords...the last couple of days


9 posted on 08/09/2024 10:44:11 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: NoLibZone
Trump always seeks to speak well of people if they finally do what needed to be done in the first place.

He's about building bridges - even when those he seeks to build them with initially screw up big time.

10 posted on 08/09/2024 10:45:50 AM PDT by politicket
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To: NoLibZone

What the mainstream media gets really wrong about Trump is portraying him as this belligerent character just itching to pick fights. The truth is that Trump’s natural disposition as a business guy is to get along with people. Complimenting Walz’s handling of the riots is just Trump being a nice guy.


11 posted on 08/09/2024 10:48:51 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: NoLibZone

That praise was when Walt finally called up NG. Prior to that, MN was burning.


12 posted on 08/09/2024 10:50:59 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: nikos1121

I actually heard the entire call on a video yesterday. It was not at all what they are making it sound like. And the key is when Trump praised him for his actions “the last couple of days”, when he acquiesced to what Trump asked him to do.😎

The whole thing is a farce.


13 posted on 08/09/2024 10:51:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: nikos1121; nesnah

I personally would be more comfortable seeing the full context of this rather than the words of some Freeyores...

(h/t Nesnah)


14 posted on 08/09/2024 10:52:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: NoLibZone
"What they did in Minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately,"

This is Trump praising the Guard, not the governor.

15 posted on 08/09/2024 10:52:45 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: cuban leaf

Thanks for the context. Context is often everything, and in the case of the MSM (Including Fox) context is often the major thing missing.


16 posted on 08/09/2024 10:53:59 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: rlmorel

How about listening to the phone call?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-ZBd7UP3I&t=223s


17 posted on 08/09/2024 10:58:11 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: cuban leaf

Yep, it’s right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-ZBd7UP3I&t=223s


18 posted on 08/09/2024 10:58:43 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: NoLibZone
The riots in Minneapolis began on May 26th. This call occurred on June 1.

Waltz himself admitted he was to blame for the slow state response to the riots in the first three days it occurred:

Here’s How Kamala Harris’ VP Pick Responded to the George Floyd Riots

Walz did accept some responsibility. “If the issue was the state should’ve moved faster, yeah, that is on me,” he admitted.

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Walz finally activated the National Guard at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, 18 hours after Frey asked him to do so. Walz’s spokesman, Teddy Tschann, said the governor needed more information to deploy the soldiers.

“As a 24-year veteran of the Minnesota National Guard, Governor Walz knows how much planning goes into a successful mission,” Tschann said at the time. “That’s why he pushed the City of Minneapolis for details and a strategy. He ordered the Minnesota National Guard to start preparing Thursday morning, which allowed them to deploy to both St. Paul and Minneapolis that evening, per the Mayors’ requests.”

Yet the National Guard did not arrive on scene that afternoon. As the Star Tribune reported, soldiers went to other locations, including the Capitol in St. Paul, but troops did not arrive at the south Minneapolis area of the Third Precinct—the site of the worst rioting—until almost 4 a.m. on Friday, May 29, by which time most rioters had left and the precinct had been burning for hours.

National Guard Bureau spokesman Rob Perino said Walz was in charge of the time line. “The governor’s office directs the National Guard to respond—when and where,” he said. “That’s how any state will tell you it goes.”

19 posted on 08/09/2024 11:05:42 AM PDT by Kazan
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Just shows the new Fox (in the henhouse) is no friend of Trump or us.
They have some good people, but the main news division is democrat light


20 posted on 08/09/2024 11:09:48 AM PDT by TStro (God created everyone equal. Samuel Colt made them polite)
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