BLM/PROTESTS: “You take a look at the people running it [Black Lives Matter], they’re Marxists, they’re people that you don’t want. And yet, they become almost like this wonderful group of people. And you look at what happened with the riots, and you look at all of the things that have happened, I think it’s a very, very divisive group. And I’m not the only one to feel that way. Now, a lot of people don’t want to talk about it because they haven’t got the guts to talk about it. But they feel it. The [National Basketball Association] now is putting big ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the courts. It’s mainstream, but the people running it are not mainstream.”
-Donald Trump on July 8, 2020 as quoted by Marc A. Thiessen, “An interview with President Trump: ‘The real hate is the hate from the other side,’” washingtonpost.com, July 9, 2020