8/8/2020

PROTESTS: “On Portland: Finally, I’d like to address that situation. Portland is a disaster. It’s been a disaster for many, many years. Brave federal law enforcement officers singlehandedly — the officers, they singlehandedly saved the federal courthouse in Portland from lawless rioters and agitators and anarchists — and that’s what they are. You know, when you find Molotov cocktails in somebody’s knapsack, and they say, ‘No, I’m just here to have a good time.’ These are really sick, disturbed people.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | Bedminster, NJ,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020