Trump's base instincts on display amid reckoning over Floyd's death
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Trump's base instincts on display amid reckoning over Floyd's death
With a single tweet Tuesday, President Donald Trump showed why his attempts to leverage liberal calls to "defund the police" to harm Democrat Joe Biden will likely fail but could further polarize America's national reckoning over race.
Trump effectively glorified police violence, questioning whether a video of a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, New York, who was seriously injured after being shoved by police officers, was a "set up." Trump claimed that the man, Martin Gugino, "fell harder than he was pushed."
Tuesday's stunning intervention by Trump showed why White House plans being considered for a national presidential address on unity and race are unlikely to ease the President's current political plight five months before Election Day. More importantly, it reflected the impossible task that Trump may have in bringing the country together and the way in which his campaign's plans to focus on a coherent, hardline strategy against Biden will likely be constantly undermined by the President's impulses.
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