As White House's strong-arm tactics get pushback, Trump takes credit for peaceful protests
Source: LA Times
Asserting that “everything is under perfect control,” President Trump claimed credit Sunday after a national wave of demonstrations against police abuses turned calmer, even as the White House faced fresh pushback over strong-arm tactics used against peaceful protesters.
Protests appeared peaceful Sunday, a day after riot police and National Guard troops largely stayed out of the way as chanting, sign-waving crowds marched and rallied in city after city against police brutality and endemic racism.
As he has during nearly two weeks of unrest, Trump again struck a stance of toughness, tweeting, “I want LAW & ORDER!” — a message his reelection campaign has embraced since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 sparked mass protests around the country and, in a few areas, vandalism and thefts.
The Trump administration has consistently portrayed a harsh response as commensurate with the threat of civil unrest and looting.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-07/as-white-houses-strong-arm-tactics-get-pushback-trump-takes-credit-for-peaceful-protests
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Of course he does. 
Oh, and while we're at it--he probably invented smilies, as well.
he will be ASSIGNED credit (because he will never TAKE CREDIT) for the MASSIVE landslide win for Joe Biden, and all democrats down ballot, thereby taking back the senate,
the complete destruction of the GOP,
and for making completely irrelevant the fundies, the vangies (NO OFFENSE to Vanessa Vanjie Mateo
), the whiteists (nazis, militias, supremacists inclusive), the neo-fascists, the haters of all stripes.
He will also be assigned credit for the massive wins and validations for all the OTHERS, who make us the AMERICA the world expects and wants to see!!!
Still breaking... 
