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highplainsdem

(48,974 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:25 PM Jun 2020

CNN: PEACEFUL PROTESTERS NEAR WHITE HOUSE GASSED, SHOT W/ RUBBER BULLETS SO TRUMP CAN HAVE PHOTO-OP

Tweet minutes ago from CNN's Oliver Darcy about a CNN chyron:

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CNN chyron: "PEACEFUL PROTESTERS NEAR WHITE HOUSE GASSED, SHOT WITH RUBBER BULLETS SO TRUMP CAN HAVE CHURCH PHOTO-OP"

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CNN: PEACEFUL PROTESTERS NEAR WHITE HOUSE GASSED, SHOT W/ RUBBER BULLETS SO TRUMP CAN HAVE PHOTO-OP (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2020 OP

Barr was outside looking at protesters right before they got gassed. Play-acting. applegrove Jun 2020 #1

Laurence Tribe on this: "Monstrous. Anticonstitutional." highplainsdem Jun 2020 #2

Who thought this was a good idea for him to go to a church FloridaBlues Jun 2020 #3

applegrove

(118,636 posts)

1. Barr was outside looking at protesters right before they got gassed. Play-acting.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:28 PM

Jun 2020

Role playing. Then Trump walks a block surrounded by hundreds of security to a church.

highplainsdem

(48,974 posts)

2. Laurence Tribe on this: "Monstrous. Anticonstitutional."

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:33 PM

Jun 2020

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Peaceful protesters were gassed and shot with rubber bullets to clear away a space near a church to give Trump a photo-op waving a bible flanked by AG Barr and Sec Def Esper. Monstrous. Anticonstitutional.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)

3. Who thought this was a good idea for him to go to a church

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:39 PM

Jun 2020

Just what we need everyone choking and spreading more virus. This will not end well with armed forces doing this to citizens

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