Here's the video of when police fired tear gas on @AliVelshi's crew and when Velshi was hit with a rubber bullet back in May. As Velshi says during the live coverage, there was no provocation or warning. https://t.co/k12lW3BYmk
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 19, 2020
"He got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas," President Trump says, of @AliVelshi, who was actually hit by a rubber bullet. "Wasn't it really a beautiful sight? It's called law and order." pic.twitter.com/sVvnZUft5B
— David Gura (@davidgura) September 19, 2020
The President brags about ”Velchi” getting hit in the knee with a tear gas canister and says it was beautiful thing pic.twitter.com/8QGHXjE0x6
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 18, 2020
"They the hit the CNN reporter in the knee, he went down. Ali Velshi" -- for the second straight day Trump praises law enforcement for hitting @AliVelshi (who actually works for MSNBC) with a rubber bullet while he was covering protests in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/cKlxjjF7hQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 20, 2020
The President of the United States cheering the targeting of a journalist by authorities... https://t.co/0DvK2TRCCs
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) September 19, 2020
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept: "Putting aside Trump's usual lies and inaccuracies, here is the president praising a police attack on a journalist, a journalist, as 'beautiful' to a cheering crowd, as 'law and order'. How is this not fascistic? How is anyone ok with this? . . . Trump is obsessed with mocking the violence against my friend, the excellent journalist Ali Velshi. Multiple references to him in multiple rallies. Just a coincidence that Ali is a brown Muslim immigrant with - to Trump - a funny-sounding last name?"So, @realDonaldTrump, you call my getting hit by authorities in Minneapolis on 5/30/20 (by a rubber bullet, btw, not a tear gas cannister) a “beautiful thing” called “law and order”. What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) September 19, 2020
1 comment:
"Do people really want a taunting self-pitying bully for president?"
We do in Swanville Maine, judging by the number of campaign signs outside people's houses. Actually, 'signs' is a bit of a misnomer. They are more like cult shrines or installation art. Multiple signs. Big American flags. Large Trump banners. Be-decked pickup trucks.
These are the same people who go maskless in the Swan Lake Grocery and sneer and scoff and refuse to step aside in the aisles when they see someone in a mask who apparently is pissing on the sacrifices of all the soldiers who died to keep America mask-free.
I've never been what you call people-friendly, but 'misanthropy' is hardly adequate to describe my disgust and despair.
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