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Trump Is Taking America To The Brink by SniteTPi: 2:08pm On Jun 05, 2020
Bob Kroll, the President of the Minneapolis police union, appeared at A Trump rally last fall and thanked the President for ending Barack Obama's "oppression of the police," letting them "handcuff criminals, not us."
George Freud in Minneapolis police control in the process of death, led to a demonstration against police brutality, and the parade was more police brutality - including the news media's unprecedented violence - the events of the past week to let a person see off the police handcuffs kroll said is what mean. Far from appeasing the nation, Donald Trump has added fuel to the fire; His actions seem very close to inciting civil war.
I think it's no exaggeration to say that the United States as we know it is at a critical juncture.
How did we get here? The central story of American politics over the past 40 years has been that the wealthy elite weaponed white racism to gain political power and use that power to pursue policies that enrich the already wealthy at the expense of workers.
Until The rise of Mr Trump, it is still possible to be in sulky denial. Today, however, it would take a deliberate act of blindness to turn a blind eye to what is going on.
I still occasionally see news reports describing Mr Trump as a "populist". But Mr Trump's economic policies have been the antipathy to populism: they have been ruthless plutocracy, centred on the unfulfilled success of slashing taxes for corporations and the rich and attempts to take health insurance away from poor and working class families.
Nor has Mr Trump's trade war brought back the good old jobs. Even before novel Coronavirus plunged the country into depression, Trump failed to generate significant job growth in coal mining or manufacturing. Farmers, who supported Trump in large Numbers in 2016, have also suffered greatly from his trade war.
So what does Mr Trump offer the white working class, who make up the majority of his base? Basically, he provided credit and cover for racial hostility.
Nowhere is this more evident than in his relationship with the police.
If economic self-interest were the only motive for political leanings, you would expect the police to lean democratic. After all, they are unionised public-sector employees - and Republicans are both anti-union and anti-government.
Their pay is not big enough to benefit from Trump's tax cuts. If revenue-starved state and local governments are forced to slash spending, their jobs are at risk -- and Mr Trump's Allies in the Senate are blocking financial aid that might avert such cuts.
In fact, the political donations of public-sector unions are overwhelmingly in favour of Democrats. While many firefighters voted for Mr Trump in 2016, the largest firefighter union backed Joe Biden.
But many police officers and their unions remain strong Supporters of Mr. Trump, and they know exactly why: They feel he would even support them, or particularly support them, if they were rude to minorities.
To be clear, many, perhaps most, police officers have performed well in the past week. In fact, in some cities, police have joined marches or dropped to their knees in solidarity with the protesters.
But Mr Trump has clearly backed those who refuse to accept that police or other officials are to blame for the brutality. He has used his power to pardon American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes by his own forces.
Re: Trump Is Taking America To The Brink by FarahAideed: 2:15pm On Jun 05, 2020
Any attempt to try to blame Trump for the killing of George Floyd is nothing but shameful political propaganda!!!! First and foremost


The city of Mineapolis Is a democrat run city

The state of Minesota is a democrat run state

The Minesota Police are employees of the state of Minesota.

Only the State of Minesota and it's official have diciplinary jurisdiction over the Minesota Police

President Trump has zero influence over the affairs of Minesota Police neither does he have any diciplinary power over them

The Killer cop has many cases of Police Brutality know to the democrat mayor of Mineapolis and the Democrat Governor of Minesota.

The democrat leadership of the state failed to discipline the cop and remove him from the police despite overwhelming evidence.

After George Floyd was killed the democrat Government of Minesota refused to act or investigate the cop until Donald Trump ordered the FBI to look into the case .

Immediately Donald Trump ordered FBI investigation the democrat govt of Minnesota arrested the cop .

After the Democrats arrested the cop the same Democrats charged him with just 3rd Degree murder and refused to arrest the other cops with him that day .

Today the same democrat party is doing everything in their power and propaganda to blame President Trump for what is 100 percent their fault using stupid paid articles like the one above .

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