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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 02:59 PM Jun 2020

During Ferguson Protests, Trump Blamed The Guy In The White House

When protesters railed against the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, Donald Trump knew just who to blame:


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Trump also claimed that the rest of the world had laughed at America and then-President Barack Obama over the Ferguson riots:


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Now the nation is wracked by protests over George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis by white police officers.

Twitter users found the irony of Trump’s former comments notable:


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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-obama-ferguson-george-floyd-killing-083709061.html
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During Ferguson Protests, Trump Blamed The Guy In The White House (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
He was already a puppet of Putin, as seen in the second Tweet from 2014. Doodley Jun 2020 #1
K & R IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #2
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