On Sunday night, John Oliver released the latest edition of his acclaimed evening show, Last week tonight, addressing the continued brutalization of Black Lives Matter protesters by President Trump’s federal agents in Portland, Oregon.
“The protests in Portland have been going on daily for almost two months since the murder of George Floyd,” said Oliver. “But the deployment of federal agents was a sharp escalation of questionable legality, and yet, hearing the President say it, he had No choice and it was a great idea.”
Yes, at a press conference with journalists, Trump announced: “We are doing a great job in Portland. Portland was very rude, they called us and we did a good job, to put it mildly. ”
“Well, first: it is never good when Trump says he is doing a ‘great job’, given that he believes his administration is doing a ‘great job’ in treating the coronavirus, and once proclaimed that Ben Affleck would do a” great work “like Batman Clearly, this guy has no idea what a ‘great job’ really is,” Oliver explained, adding: “And for the record, those agents were very no Incoming call. “(Both the Governor of Oregon and the Mayor of Portland have said that Trump ordered federal agents against his orders and that they want them to leave.)
Also, according to Oliver, “Masked people who throw people into an unmarked van is never a good idea if they want to scale down a situation. It’s not even a good idea for a surprise bachelorette party.
The HBO host went on to state that “things weren’t particularly serious in Portland” and that “the protests had been mostly peaceful … this is a block that was actually beginning to see less fighting between protesters and the police before federal agents moved in. ”
However, if you look at Fox News: “It is the end of the United States as we know it.”
Oliver threw Sean Hannity coverage of the Portland clashes. The Fox News presenter released a graphic that reads “VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND” followed by a roll of buildings that have been damaged there, including an alleged “fire attack,” which he considers “insane” chaos. (Hannity was recently charged with sexual harassment.)
“Yes, it’s crazy, because that tone no they honestly reflect the conditions on the ground, “Oliver replied.” That ‘fire blitz’, for example, appears to be a reference to a firework or small fire that started, which is significantly less dramatic than what it is trying to make it sound. And that list continuing alongside Hannity’s head is mostly graffiti! In fact, graffiti appears 12 times in a row under the title ‘VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND’, which is a huge exaggeration. ”
Oliver concluded, “Look, the trouble here is: Portland appears to be being used as a stage by the president to make an authoritative show of force, and this could end very badly, especially since he is now apparently threatened with using the federal force system in other cities too, which is absolutely outrageous. ”
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