CAMPAIGN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/PROTESTS/RALLY: “The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage so they can replace it with a new repressive regime that they alone control. They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters. It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country. They don’t love our country…
And it’s — by the way, just so you understand, it’s all liberal Democrat states. Could you imagine if Sleepy Joe ever became President? This country would be a mess. If ever became President, this country would be a mess. They would rip down everything.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at a Turning Point Action Address to Young Americans,” whitehouse.gov, June 23, 2020