'It will be a much different scene!': Trump threatens protesters who want to show up at his Tulsa ra

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Independent


Tweet comes less than 24 hours after Oklahoma's governor declared campaign event will be 'amazing' and 'safe'

John T BennettWashington Bureau Chief @BennettJohnT
4 minutes ago

Donald Trump appeared to threaten to order federal and local law enforcement officers rough up any protesters who might show up to object to his planned campaign rally Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!" the president tweeted.

Mr Trump, who calls himself "your law-and-order president," doubled down with the tweet on his get-tough approach to protesters and what he and law enforcement officials say are agitators from the political left and right joining the crowds to damage businesses.

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Mr Trump's threatening tweet came less than 24 hours after Oklahoma's governor sat near the president at the White House and declared the Tulsa event will be "safe."


Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-twitter-tulsa-rally-election-us-2020-tweet-threat-protest-a9575586.html

[FarPoint]

1. Does anyone sense that tRump wants violence?

I can say this, he is doing nothing to focus on Peace....

[sarge43]

21. Of course he does so long he's not personally caught up in it.

Cadet Bonespurs is a bully, a coward and a practitioner of "Let's you and him fight."

Worse, he's one of those monsters who wants to see the world burn.

The protesters should stay the hell away. They won't change any 'minds' and will only give those creeps exactly what they want. Let 'em feed on each other.

[Kaiserguy]

31. If they are going to protest

then it needs to be a silent one just stand there and show Trump their backs. Show America that Trump is nothing and not worth their time.

[sarge43]

32. Might work, but I'm afraid of the MAGA creeps.

They'll have their blood up and won't need much of an excuse to go feral.

Their One True God gave them permission to do so.

[Bengus81]

28. Sounds like a set up to me. Jacob Whol on the job?

Way to much "baiting" talk already IMO................

[DTomlinson]

38. He's a fascist, so yes.

[NotHardly]

40. Yeah, actually he is calling for His Cult and Protesters to pick fights... its another Bully Tactic

Let the chips fall where they may, he intends that anyway.

Why a Bully Tactic... well, bullies are cowards and this is a "dare" that in his mind he will resolve through the violence and heated anger of others... bullies do that all the time.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Our crazy governor Stitt is Trump's mini me.

[Kali]

3. hope there is a huge peaceful but loud turnout!

of course he would claim any crowd as supporters and the fox-watching-fools would believe him.

[durablend]

9. Actually

He'd claim the protesters were terrorists and his "MAGAt followers" need to "deal with them"

[sarge43]

22. Called it. n/t

[ewagner]

25. Close to my estimation....

I'm thinking there may be provocateurs mixed in with the crowd to trigger some sort of confrontation which will lead to physical confrontations between "law and order" and "antifa"...whether real or not...

perception is reality

and to trump perception is EVERYTHING.

look out for right wing instigated violence.

[Alacritous Crier]

27. Yep!

[jeffreyi]

30. Indeed.

The Quezies will love them some violence.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. I would go as far

as to bet that bunches of Erik Prince's plain clothes mercs will be intermingled in the crowd to do that exact thing.

Planes in the sky, Helicopter gun ships overhead, ground soldiers with bayonets mounted on their assault rifles, hummers with machine gun turrets, sonic devices, microwave devices. Hell, I can believe that we could see anything, after what we have seen already.....
His "March to the Church" should serve as a harbinger of things to come.......we ain't seen nothing yet, and there is still FIVE months to go.......


ANY action, by any protestors, peaceful or not, will be met with absolute and overwhelming physical domination by Trump's gestapo and Storm Troopers.....

You couldn't catch me within a hundred miles of this one. His Trumphumpers, all ginned up to the point of being rabid, foaming at the mouths, infecting everyone there with C19, then Trump provoking them to go after the demonstrators as he has done many times before..........."what could possibly go wrong"......."no one could have expected that violence"...

And best of all, will he declare no cameras or cell phone cameras will be allowed??????????

[DTomlinson]

39. Yes, there are plenty of MAGA goons itching to start a fight and make good on Trump's threats.

I worry.

[George II]

4. That sounds like a cross section of his followers.

[riversedge]

5. When I read Trumps tweet earlier my first thought was that he was giving permision to his

fans for violence.

looks like I am not the only one to think this.

Link to tweet

?s=20

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Hotler]

6. I think our fellow democratic and progressive brothers and sisters need to stay away...

for the sake of their health. It will be a hoard of carriers. you don't want the trumpers in your face.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Yes yes yes...please stay away. You deny him what he wants by not giving him your attendance

Not to mention staying safe

[aggiesal]

17. I call it Coronafest! n/t

[Scarsdale]

7. I think the REAL BLM groups will stay away.

Why risk getting the virus, plus giving tRump an opportunity to play victim again? Let the agitators from Boogaloo go, get pepper sprayed and shot with rubber bullets. Stay home, stay safe. Let people know who the REAL agitators are. Once some of them are arrested and their ties exposed, maybe there will be an awakening about WHO is really to blame for all the destruction. tRump is not worth the effort of travelling to protest. He does not care about anyone but his own bloated, orange self.

[stillcool]

29. that's what I'm hoping for...

That D.C. photo-op/police riot, was said to be a precursor of things to come. They can protest after his really big show, but only if they're alive.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Well now,

that guarantees a violent confrontation.

[DownriverDem]

11. Will it remind us of

Bull Conner with hoses and dogs? trump/repubs are so in denial. Many white people saw the light then and do now. Millennials make me so proud. I never realized that it would take a couple of generations beyond the Boomers to see what I've been waiting for.

[CrispyQ]

12. Who's gonna stop this fucker?

He's already shot protestors with rubber bullets. What's next? Live ammo?

[BlueIdaho]

13. Go ahead Fatso...

Start another cop riot. Put armed soldiers with bayonets on the streets. Teargas young and old alike. Beat the shit out of peaceful protestors. Your despotic shit is not America and the more people see it the more they hate it and you.

[machoneman]

14. Although the SS won't let guns get close, I'd love to set-off remotely well outside the stadium....

...a long string or two of those loud small firecrackers with a "loud report"!

Imagine then all the MAGAT guns drawn!

[SKKY]

15. So, POTUS just threatened anyone who has the audacity to exercise their 1st Amendment rights.

Nice.

[aggiesal]

16. Who's going to Coronafest on Saturday Night in Tulsa? Raise your hands! n/t

[yaesu]

18. it is our right and duty to show up by the thousands & let him and his idiot cult members

know that he is a dangerous tyrannical criminal misfit.

[Roc2020]

19. Safe to say now most

if not all the followers of Trump are a death cult.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Another impeachable offense and violation of oath of office.

I would love to see the entire city of Tulsa be supportive of our Constitutional rights and totally boycott this event.

Shuttering every single business in town would be a powerful statement of support of the Constitutional right to peaceful protest. For those tRump supporters that don't believe in Constitutional rights, don't even give them a place to stop and take a piss.

With so many of Tulsa's citizens claiming to be conservative, one would think they would be horrified by this massive waste of taxpayer's dollars and risk to all those lives they think matter, just to give Trump a one-hour spoiled brat feel-good.



In short, Republicans are lying hypocrites.......

[C_U_L8R]

23. His Juneteenth reenactment is already backfiring.

Trump is defeating himself and taking all the GOP with him. Good riddance, racist scum.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Are this week's resignations related to this threat?

Because it seemed like those resigning had reached a point beyond which they would not go. Like authorizing use of force on US civilians?

[duforsure]

26. He's likely doing this for two reasons

To draw more media to it, and to use it to incite violence with that he can then get Barr to criminalize them. Media shouldn't attend, and need to ignore this, because that's what he's doing now , playing the media. He's intentionally doing things to escalate the groups against each other with this . He wouldn't have threaten them unless he wanted that to happen. Drumming up attention away from Biden and how he's surging in the polls also. Media should focus on Biden and see what he does , and not mention his rally. He'll explode. Stop giving trump free publicity media.

[Brainfodder]

34. So 4X as many protesters as rally goers will show up NOW for sure?

[bluestateboomer]

35. I sense that he's working on a "Reichstag Fire" moment

Hair Furor would be really happy to see a violent protest and counter reaction. Then his thugs cans save us from the imaginary Antifa.

[DTomlinson]

36. Fucking FASCIST!

[yellowdogintexas]

37. perhaps the real protestors should stage their own rally in another part of the city

Is there a large open plaza or something a couple of miles away? The mayor is all in on controllng this thing, what with the curfew, routing out the folks who have been camping out since Tuesday at the arena and so on.

Keep the protestors away from the high risk area, and keep it on the lowdown so Erik Prince can't infiltrate it.

If it were happening here, it would probably be at the new Dickie's Arena which is the largest space in town outside of the TCU football field. Protestors could easily take over downtown. Parking is free on weekends there so it's easy to draw a big crowd. We had 8000 for one of the women's marches. All they need is a permit

[SharonClark]

41. Is there a planned anti trump protest?