Trump to wade into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha

WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is div­ing head-first into the lat­est erup­tion in the nation’s reck­on­ing over racial injus­tice with a trip Tues­day to Kenosha, Wis­con­sin, over the objec­tions of local leaders.

The city has been riv­en by protests since the Aug. 23 shoot­ing of Jacob Blake, a Black man hit sev­en times in the back by police. On the eve of his vis­it, Trump defend­ed a teenage sup­port­er accused of fatal­ly shoot­ing two men in Kenosha last week and accused Demo­c­rat Joe Biden of sid­ing with “anar­chists” and “riot­ers” in the unrest.

Wisconsin’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic gov­er­nor, Tony Evers, who deployed the Nation­al Guard to quell demon­stra­tions in response to the Blake shoot­ing, plead­ed with Trump to stay away for fear of strain­ing ten­sions fur­ther. The White House said the pres­i­dent was expect­ed to meet with law enforce­ment and tour “prop­er­ty affect­ed by recent riots.”

“I am con­cerned your pres­ence will only hin­der our heal­ing,” Evers wrote in a let­ter to Trump. “I am con­cerned your pres­ence will only delay our work to over­come divi­sion and move for­ward together.”

Trump, claim­ing the man­tle of the “law and order” can­di­date, is offer­ing him­self as the leader best posi­tioned to keep Amer­i­cans safe. Biden, in turn, has assailed him over the dead­ly protests that have sprung up on his .

Trump insist­ed his appear­ance in Kenosha could “increase enthu­si­asm” in Wis­con­sin, per­haps the most hot­ly con­test­ed bat­tle­ground state in the pres­i­den­tial race, as the White House said he “wants to vis­it hurt­ing Amer­i­cans.” He was expect­ed to take cred­it for call­ing in the Nation­al Guard — an act tak­en by Evers — and for surg­ing fed­er­al law enforce­ment to the city to restore the peace. The White House said Trump was not going to meet with Blake’s family.

“I am a tremen­dous fan of law enforce­ment and I want to thank law enforce­ment,” Trump told Fox News in an inter­view Mon­day night. “They’ve done a good job.”

Trump sug­gest­ed that some police offi­cers “choke” when faced with chal­leng­ing sit­u­a­tions and com­pared them to golfers who “miss a 3‑foot putt.”

Biden, in his most direct attacks yet, accused Trump ear­li­er Mon­day of caus­ing the divi­sions that have ignit­ed the vio­lence. He deliv­ered an unchar­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly blis­ter­ing speech in Pitts­burgh and dis­tanced him­self from rad­i­cal forces involved in altercations.

Biden said of Trump: “He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to gen­er­ate heat, and he’s stok­ing vio­lence in our cities. He can’t stop the vio­lence because for years he’s foment­ed it.”

Trump, for his part, reit­er­at­ed that he blames rad­i­cal trou­ble­mak­ers stirred up and backed by Biden. But when he was asked about one of his own sup­port­ers who was charged with killing two men dur­ing the may­hem in Kenosha, Trump declined to denounce the killings and sug­gest­ed that the 17-year-old sus­pect, Kyle Rit­ten­house, was act­ing in self-defense.

After a con­fronta­tion in which he fatal­ly shot one man, police say, Rit­ten­house fell while being chased by peo­ple try­ing to dis­arm him. A sec­ond per­son was shot and killed.

“That was an inter­est­ing sit­u­a­tion,” Trump said Mon­day dur­ing a news con­fer­ence. “He was try­ing to get away from them, I guess, it looks like, and he fell. And then they very vio­lent­ly attacked him. … He was in very big trou­ble. He would have been — he prob­a­bly would’ve been killed.”

Biden saw Trump’s impact far dif­fer­ent­ly, accus­ing the pres­i­dent of “poi­son­ing” the nation’s values.

In a state­ment after Trump’s news con­fer­ence but before his Fox News remarks, Biden said: “Tonight, the pres­i­dent declined to rebuke vio­lence. He wouldn’t even repu­di­ate one of his sup­port­ers who is charged with mur­der because of his attacks on oth­ers. He is too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it.”

Trump and his cam­paign team have seized upon the unrest in Kenosha, as well as in Port­land, Ore­gon, where a Trump sup­port­er was shot and killed, lean­ing hard into a defense of law and order while sug­gest­ing that Biden is behold­en to extrem­ists. Trump aides believe that tough-on-crime stance will help him with vot­ers and that the more the nation­al dis­course is about any­thing oth­er than the coro­n­avirus, the bet­ter it is for the president.

In the inter­view with Fox, Trump insist­ed that if he were not pres­i­dent, “you would have riots like you’ve nev­er seen.”

In Pitts­burgh, Biden resound­ing­ly con­demned vio­lent pro­test­ers and called for their pros­e­cu­tion — address­ing a key Trump critique.

“It’s law­less­ness, plain and sim­ple. And those who do it should be pros­e­cut­ed,” Biden said. And he leaned on his own 47-year career in pol­i­tics to defend him­self against Repub­li­can attacks.

“You know me. You know my heart. You know my sto­ry, my family’s sto­ry,” he said. “Ask your­self: Do I look like a rad­i­cal social­ist with a soft spot for riot­ers? Really?”

The for­mer vice pres­i­dent also tried to refo­cus the race on what has been its defin­ing theme — Trump’s han­dling of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, which has left more than 180,000 Amer­i­cans dead — after a mul­ti-day onslaught by the president’s team to make the cam­paign about the vio­lence rat­tling Amer­i­can cities.

Wor­ried Democ­rats, includ­ing some inside his own cam­paign, have pushed Biden to deal with the vio­lence head on and at greater length, though he had pre­vi­ous­ly con­demned it. With Trump pound­ing the issue in his con­ven­tion speech, which was then fol­lowed by more blood­shed over the week­end, many in Biden’s par­ty, still shell-shocked by the 2016 loss, urged Biden to get ahead of the rare issue that has bro­ken through the nation­al focus on the pandemic.

Biden declared that even as Trump is “try­ing to scare Amer­i­ca,” what’s real­ly caus­ing the nation’s fear is Trump’s own failures.

“You want to talk about fear? They’re afraid they’re going to get COVID, they’re afraid they’re going to get sick and die,” Biden said.

(Vis­it­ed 1 times, 1 vis­its today)



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