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Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rallyAyesha Rascoe AUGUST 22, 2017 / 5:17 AM / AN HOUR AGO
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Large protests could greet President Donald Trump on Tuesday when he travels to Arizona for his first campaign rally since he caused an uproar with his remarks about a white nationalist demonstration in Virginia.
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat, asked the Republican president to postpone Tuesday's event scheduled for 7 p.m. MST (0200 GMT on Wednesday) in light of his response to the street battles that broke out earlier this month at a protest against the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
Trump was widely criticized for blaming both white nationalists and counter-protesters for the violence at the rally organized by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
"America is hurting. And it is hurting largely because Trump has doused racial tensions with gasoline," Stanton wrote in the Washington Post. "With his planned visit to Phoenix on Tuesday, I fear the president may be looking to light a match."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKCN1B211U
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Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rally (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2017
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jpak
(41,760 posts)1. I have a bad feeling about this - lots of RW gun nuts in AZ
n/t
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. I hope its a huge
and peaceful protest like Boston.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)3. "When
They go low we go high"... peace is the way.
Hope the crowd is larger that those who turn out to listen to his lies.