House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffWarner calls Intelligence chief's decision to scale down congressional election security briefings 'outrageous' Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings Intelligence chief shifts election security briefings to written updates MORE (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump to visit Kenosha on Tuesday amid unrest Warner calls Intelligence chief's decision to scale down congressional election security briefings 'outrageous' Katyusha rocket lands in Baghdad 'Green Zone': report MORE is “willfully fanning the flames” of violence amid clashes between protesters and counterprotesters over police brutality.
“The president is willfully fanning the flames of this fire,” Schiff said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“They believe this is helpful to him,” Schiff said, referring to Trump’s allies.
“The president is only motivated by one thing: what is in it for him. He sees this violence and his ability to agitate more of it as useful to this campaign. What it does to the country, the loss of life, he doesn’t care,” Schiff added.
Schiff’s comments came after police said one person in Portland, Ore., was fatally shot late Saturday after clashes between a Black Lives Matter protest and a caravan of Trump supporters.
Protesters in Portland have been demonstrating daily for months after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. Protests were reignited after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., on Monday.
Trump tweeted, “GREAT PATRIOTS” early Sunday morning, sharing a video of the caravan of his supporters.
Schiff said Trump “simply won’t act to stop violence” and will try to stoke the flames on social media and through other methods “because he believes the violence helps him.”
“That is the sad and tragic truth about this and also of Trump’s presidency more generally,” Schiff said.
Remember45 on August 30th, 2020 at 14:50 UTC »
Pretty much.
RNC 2020 in under 3 minutes.
HellaTroi on August 30th, 2020 at 14:23 UTC »
"President Trump tweeted, “GREAT PATRIOTS” early Sunday morning sharing a video of the caravan of the president's supporters."
Great Patriots do not go riding around in trucks firing paintballs and spraying people with mace.
That's called assault. And the police who allow this are not doing anything about it.
ViridianLens on August 30th, 2020 at 14:14 UTC »
It’s the only hope he has.
However I kind of remember Trump promising that riots wouldn’t happen under his watch and that he was going to fix that.
Oh if only he had control of government, the courts, and congress...
/s