Column: Trump is our first pro-vigilante president. Now stop and think about what that means

[Nevilledog]

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-02/donald-trump-kenosha-vigilantes

President Trump took his discord-and-turmoil tour to Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday, re-roiling a town that had calmed itself after a week of unrest.

Trump did not meet with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by a police officer seven times in the back, a stomach-turning act that the president likened to a golfer who misses a short putt.

By contrast, he offered supportive comments about Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who drove to Kenosha from Illinois with an AR-15 to join the fray and is accused of shooting three protesters, killing two. Rittenhouse has been charged with first-degree murder, but Trump made the public case that he was acting in self-defense.

Trump, along with Atty. Gen. William Barr, rolled into Kenosha — over the objections of the city’s mayor and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, who told the president that “I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing.”

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[beachbumbob]

1. need to refinethe statement: trump is a PRO-truMP vigilante president.....

a big difference as he may be upset if we had liberal vigilante groups acting in unison

[Nevilledog]

2. Only he wouldn't call us vigilantes.