Trump shares letter that calls peaceful protesters 'terrorists'

[durablend]

Source: CNN

(CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday shared a letter on Twitter that referred to the peaceful protesters who were forcibly dispersed from a park near the White House on Monday evening as "terrorists."

The letter from veteran attorney and former Trump lawyer John Dowd appears to be addressed to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis and rebuts Mattis' Wednesday statement castigating Trump's response to the nationwide protests after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

"The phony protesters near Lafayette were not peaceful and are not real," Dowd's letter claimed, without citing any evidence. "They are terrorists using idle hate filled students to burn and destroy. They were abusing and disrespecting the police when the police were preparing the area for the 1900 curfew."

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on the description of the protesters as "terrorists."...

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/trump-letter-protesters/index.html

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And you *really* think he's going to let the American people get away with "voting"

[TeamPooka]

1. John Dowd is a guy that I hope doesn't wear a mask nowadays.

He has blood on his hands from the Bush years

[Stuart G]

2. Trump won't be able to stop people from voting.

Average people have seen enough of Trump. Trump will have 25%, but the rest of us will have 75%..

We will see in November. I think people are totally sick of Donald Trump..

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yes, yes, yes, and yes

Even before the tragedy of George Floyd, people were fed up with Trump, and Trump has bungled the week and the response. People are not stupid, they know a dictatorship when they see one.

Let me try to say that subtly differently. The protestors are getting longer and larger because of the budding dictator's moves. Citizens see a pattern, a context.

[olddad65]

16. Don't underestimate Trumps (Putins) evilness...

They will do anything to stay in office, including causing
a civil war, turning our military on our citizens, declaring martial law, and postponing the election.

Keep in mind that we no longer live in a democracy. We currently have a fascist dictator that is a puppet of another fascist dictator.

[Nevilledog]

3. That is just obscene.

[soothsayer]

5. Phony and violent episcopal holy woman

More friends made, mister drumf.

[ancianita]

6. John Dowd, the guy who calls protesters who break curfew terrorists, is a pompous traitor to the law

A ratfucker lackey of a dicktater. And that's not even what I really think of him.

I wouldn't worry about voting. It's not something any president can "let the American people get away with."

Americans will be voting. Believe that.

[keithbvadu2]

7. So the priest was also a 'terrorist'?

So the priest was also a 'terrorist'?

Guess the priest was not one of Trump's 'Christians/evangelicals'.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. So is anyone who is not voting for Trump.

Not only is Trump mentally ill, apparently everyone in his orbit has lost their fucking mind.

[iluvtennis]

10. Ditto

[riversedge]

9. crap. Everytime someone writes a letter of approval of Trump vile behavior, it will be news. crap

[rusty quoin]

11. OMG, there is so much there. We have no idea what this vindictive bag of pus is capable of.

Let’s say Biden wins and then what happens? (we don’t know).

He has a month plus to be Trump. Can he still nuke? How does one get into the mind of a sociopath with any kind of prediction.

These have been the most horrible years of my life.

[louzke9]

12. SO DID DOWD REALLY WRITE THIS?

THIS SOUNDS LIKE DONALD! And addressed to Admiral Matis. Bet Toddler T DICKtated it and had Dowd sign it!

[obamanut2012]

14. There is no one named Admiral Matis

There is a General Mattis.

[Mc Mike]

13. But the actual nazi terrorists that back tRump are very good people.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Anyone that causes Donny to shit his pants is a terrorist.