8/31/2020

PROTESTS/STATUES: “I think Portland is very easy to handle because that’s a group of anarchists that are paid by the outside. And we’ve put a lot of people in jail. I don’t know if you know this or not. Remember, three or four months ago, we were having a problem with monuments. They were ripping down statues and monuments all over the place…

I signed in an executive order, 10 years in jail if you knock down a statue or monument. You haven’t heard one thing about it. You haven’t – we wouldn’t have – they were going after Thomas Jefferson. There were going after Lincoln and they were going after the Washington Monument that they could knock that one down.

They were going after – and I actually don’t even think they know. I think they’re just thugs. I don’t think it’s – it’s – it may be an ideology and it may not. It is an ideology for the people that are paying them. And the funny thing is – and the strange thing is, the people that are paying them and all this money because somebody is doing it… The people paying them, those people will be overthrown. Their lives will be taken away. Their lives will be endangered. They’re all going to be gone. They’re just stupid, foolish people that made a lot of money.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump joins Laura Ingraham to discuss violence in Democrat-run cities, planned visit to Kenosha,” foxnews.com, Aug. 31, 2020