Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident
Source: NBC News
President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI on Sunday after it said it was investigating reports that a caravan of his supporters harassed a bus belonging to Joe Biden's campaign.
"In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong," Trump said in a tweet. "Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!"
The president also referred to the incident during rallies earlier Sunday. Video of the incident, which occurred Friday, showed Trump supporters surrounding the Biden campaign bus with their vehicles in Texas. The video showed two cars colliding, and the Biden campaign said the pro-Trump trucks tried to run the bus off the road as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin.
"You see the way our people, they you know they were protecting his bus yesterday," Trump said while addressing supporters in Michigan. "Because they're nice. So his bus they had hundreds of cars, Trump, Trump, Trump and the American flag. You see Trump and the American flag. Do you ever notice when you see the other side I don't even see much of the other side."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-lashes-out-after-fbi-announces-investigation-biden-bus-incident-n1245728
I am beyond disgusted
pwb
(11,259 posts)Hope so. he goes lots of places.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)It should come as no surprise that Trump has a collection of Hitler speeches. He is using the same demagoguery and tactics. In fact it has fascistic tactics have been the staple of the Republicans' since the Nixon presidency. Because they are important in grasping their agenda I am reposting them:
Fourteen Defining
Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt
Source Free Inquiry.co
5-28-3
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
BarbD
(1,192 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)smdh
PatSeg
(47,388 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)green light, dog whistle. Stochastic terrorism in practice there.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)I'm not "religious", but this passage from the Christian Bible fits Trump, so perfectly, I had to post it:
"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your fathers desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
-Jesus of Nazareth
StaunchDemocrat1957
(66 posts)To post to the Bi partisan Forum!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,563 posts)Not familiar.......
sanatanadharma
(3,696 posts)Quick Google search by this non-Christian answers the question about this not-familiar to me verse.
DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)Jesus is talking to the Pharisees, the legal representatives of the state who are questioning him in regards to him being the son of God. He is telling them they are not of Abraham but of the devil.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)done in his name by his voters
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)... trDump is a Mafioso thug and thinks this enhances his tough guy persona and bonafides.
This is the bunion and bone spur princess playing alpha male while prancing around in his pink chiffon ballerina tutu.
My Pet Orangutan
(9,234 posts)I see such an extraordinary accomplished tour de force and I think of sex.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)sees nothing wrong with these actions...
RobertDevereaux
(1,856 posts)Trump NEVER lashes out.
He always wet-noodles out.
Never use power words to describe this quivering crybaby coward.
irisblue
(32,963 posts)hyper toxic masculinity on parade
RobertDevereaux
(1,856 posts)Empty clown suit.
Geez, let's see what happens when, for four fucking years, we give the worst person we can find the power of the most exalted office on earth.
Or when we agree, en masse, to adopt that delusion.
The Emperor's New Clothes all over again.
But no one can hear the little boy.
Cha
(297,123 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)Tomorrow people, Let's get this shit done.
nebby70
(471 posts)... he's all flash and little bang ...
... as long as his tiny hands don't get dirty ...
... this micro-penis stuff is getting so tiresome ...
... in my opinion, they did it because they thought Harris was on the bus ...
... that would make it a two-fer ... intimidate a democrat AND a woman --- life is so transparent for these guys.
Botany
(70,488 posts)Well if they did nothing wrong then they shouldn't have anything to worry about would
they Donny?
BTW ANTIFA doesn't exist.
marble falls
(57,073 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,408 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)His mind just twists everything in his favor. This is like a guy who sits down to Thanksgiving dinner and eats everything on the table, leaving nothing for his family.
If he were a CEO doing this the Board of Directors would kick him upstairs with a ceremonial title and little power - to protect the company!
Harker
(14,012 posts)similar to that of Aleister Crowley.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)But instead of a bat, it illuminates "25".
We should use it every time he says something batshit crazy.
How many occasions would we have had the past 4 years to invoke the 25th Amendment?
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)what kind of mental health issue he has. He's gone so over the top that he goes beyond anything that's ever been diagnosed.
pazzyanne
(6,547 posts)When he calls for "the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators" to be investigated, he may find it's his "guys" who are doing that work - in his name no less.
hadEnuf
(2,186 posts)People are only going to take so much.
Trump is a criminal who supports criminals.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)PSPS
(13,590 posts)ancianita
(36,018 posts)in full spread mode on the Internet -- spreading to the public the info that Proud Boys are non-violent because they're fronted by a sellout black looking Latino leader, Enrique Tarrio.
The propaganda machine will tell the public they are "protecting" liberty and Americans while antifa are trying to tear down the "real" America.
Unless the FBI steps up. Low key, of course. So they say.
AllaN01Bear
(18,138 posts)honest.abe
(8,671 posts)I cannot imagine how any reasonable person can support this horrible man.
Initech
(100,061 posts)MissMillie
(38,548 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)I dont know the person. Oh, I may have been introduced to him a long time ago, I meet a lot of people. No, I dont this person.
malthaussen
(17,184 posts)Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)Patriots. Right.
Pluvious
(4,308 posts)... simalrly stalked and harassed, by say armed groups not being all White Neckbeards...
Just saying.
calimary
(81,199 posts)Because he's THAT GUY WHO LIES ALL THE TIME!!!
packman
(16,296 posts)Christ awmight , what a steaming pile of evil shit matter - may he be washed away in the Blue rain
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)If he gets voted out of office tomorrow, he's looking at being accused of crimes no one has been charged with since Reconstruction, but are still on the books. And if Texas goes blue, Amy McGrath beats Mitch McConnell or Jaime Harrison beats Lindsay Graham, the GOP might help us get rid of the bastard before January 20 by agreeing to give us just enough Senate votes to hit 67.
So...of course he thinks people harassing Joe's campaign bus did nothing wrong. And after Tuesday, the FBI can expand its probe to include the Trump family.
Jimvanhise
(301 posts)Trump had the opportunity to stand up and do the right thing, to say that he appreciates their support but these actions could have resulted in a serious accident. Instead he praises it and thinks it is funny, and apparently is once again abusing his power to prevent an FBI investigation into it. There were other people on the road there that day and they saw what really went down.