Biden Says Trump Fanning ‘Unacceptable’ Portland Violence
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Susan Decker and Ros Krasny 1 hr ago
(Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said violence in Portland, Oregon, that left a supporter of Donald Trump dead is “unacceptable” and urged the president to stop “fanning the flames of hate and division in our society.”
“I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same,” Biden said in a statement. “We must not become a country at war with ourselves.”
A man linked to a right-wing group called Patriot Prayer that supports Trump was shot and killed in Portland Saturday night after hundreds of Trump supporters who arrived in the city by convoy clashed with those protesting the shootings of Black men and women by police.
The statement is the strongest language yet by Biden, with about two months left to the November general election. The nation has been wracked by racial justice protests since the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis police.
Most of the protests have been peaceful, but there have been instances of property damage and clashes with law enforcement.
Chad Wolf, Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, on Sunday blamed local officials in Portland and other cities for fostering an “environment of lawlessness and chaos” and wouldn’t rule out sending in federal troops, even if local officials don’t want them.
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