Trump’s hostility toward what he describes as ‘the Radical Left’, considering the majority of his Democratic rivals to fit this label, is well known. The president also…
US President Donald Trump lashed out at Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in a series of tweets on Sunday, denouncing the latter’s response to civil unrest. The city has seen waves of massive protest, sparked by the death of George Floyd while in police custody, for the past couple of months. Trump castigated Wheeler for watching “great death and destruction of his City during his tenure”, declaring that “the only way you will stop the violence in the high crime Democrat run cities is through strength!”. Trump also claimed that Wheeler “tried mixing with the Agitators and Anarchists and they mocked him”, slamming the mayor’s attempts to blame the federal goverment, that, as Trump stated, “has only been there with a small group to defend our US Courthouse, because he couldn’t do it”.
