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sheshe2

(83,730 posts)
Sun May 31, 2020, 07:58 PM May 2020

Trump Previously Blamed 'Weak Leadership' in Washington for Ferguson Riots and Looting in 2014

President Donald Trump blamed "weak leadership" in Washington for the outbreak of rioting and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, six years ago.

Trump, now faced with escalating protests in Minneapolis, was repeatedly critical of the Obama administration's handling of the Ferguson riots in August 2014 which were in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. At the time, Trump said other countries were laughing at the government's handling of the unrest.

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"Our country is totally fractured and, with our weak leadership in Washington, you can expect Ferguson type riots and looting in other places," Trump tweeted on November 25, 2014.

more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-blamed-weak-leadership-washington-ferguson-riots-1507312



Six years ago you predicted your own 'Residency. You predicted that you would be a weak man, turn the US into a "shithole country" where all the world leaders would be laughing at you right now if they didn't know that in fact, you are the biggest threat to the entire world.

I only need to change two words in your quote from 2014:

"Our country is totally fractured and, with my weak leadership in Washington, you can expect these type riots and looting in other places," Trump tweeted on November 25, 2014.

Fixed it for you.

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Trump Previously Blamed 'Weak Leadership' in Washington for Ferguson Riots and Looting in 2014 (Original Post) sheshe2 May 2020 OP
Noting matters other than what Dick Cheney and George W Bush and Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1
OMG, he was right for once! sinkingfeeling May 2020 #2
Lol! sheshe2 May 2020 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Noting matters other than what Dick Cheney and George W Bush and
Sun May 31, 2020, 08:00 PM
May 2020

45 million other rumpers think, and if they think what rump is doing, destroying the country is OK, then it is OK.

I am AMAZED that those two and others are STiLL silent.

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