CIVIL UNREST/PROTESTS: “Now, we sent in the U.S. Marshals for the killer, the man that killed the young man in the street — he shot him, I mean it was on television. Cold blooded killed him. He didn’t like his hat or he didn’t like something — and it wasn’t a Trump hat… Two and a half days went by and I put out, when are you going to go get him? And the U.S. Marshals went in to get him and in a short period of time — they ended in a gun fight, this guy was a violent criminal and the U.S. Marshals killed him. And I will tell you something, that’s the way it has to be.
There has to be retribution when you have crime like this. There can’t be guys standing up that want to fight, they want to fight — you can’t throw bricks at people with shields on…
So what’s going to happen — and this is a shame — you’re going to have a backlash like you’ve never seen, if these people don’t stop. Because you have very smart, very tough people that aren’t going to take it anymore. And once they say we’re not going to take it anymore, it’s going to end in a very vicious backlash and that’s a terrible thing.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Jeanine Pirro Interviews Donald Trump at The White House – September 12, 2020,” factba.se, Sep. 12, 2020