Protests erupted in Minneapolis in May over the murder of George Floyd by police and gained steam after Blake’s shooting in Wisconsin last week.
“You see the president’s scathing remarks, they centered a whole convention around creating more animosity and more division around what’s going on in Kenosha,” Barne told CNN’s John King on “Inside Politics.” “So, I don’t know of any previous statements that the president said he intends to come here to be helpful. And we don’t need that at the moment.”
“What was the lieutenant governor’s compromise on the recent riots in Kenosha? Without President Trump’s leadership, Kenosha and his citizens still live in danger,” a White House official told CNN in response to Barnes’ remarks on Sunday.
The concern is that citizens will ‘crowd’ for Kenosha to ‘see Trump’
Kenosha officials are also concerned about Trump’s city visit, including Andy Berg, a county board supervisor in Kenosha’s Tenth District, who told CNN’s Sara Sidner that the visit was not in line with the city’s needs and would “provide more divisions in Kenosha.”
“We have citizens who said they don’t want to come when they are hurting in this city, but now they have to come and see the president, and they are not doing anything positive for this city.”
CNN’s Sidner also reported that Kenosha Mayor John Antarmiya told him that now was not the time for the president to visit the area.
“I can’t take a vote of confidence or a vote of lack of confidence, but if I could, I would probably take that vote because it’s painful, like I said, there’s hardly any blame for someone who really killed two people. ., “Barney asked King if the city needed a new police chief.
What Republicans and Democrats Say
Republican, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson defended Trump’s “law and order” stance on the protests during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday on “State of the Union.” If he had repeatedly pressured her to condemn the alleged actions taken by Rittenhouse, Johnson would not have said at the beginning before replying, “I condemn it all.”
He said, “You allow peaceful protests, but you will not allow – you will not allow peaceful protests to be surrounded. Listen, I don’t want to lose anyone’s life.” “I don’t want to see violence continue. I don’t want to see businesses burn. I don’t want to see economic destruction. I condemn it all.”
In a pair of interviews with CNN on Sunday, Democratic lawmakers said Trump is seeking to promote violence to increase his chances of re-election. California Congressional Black Caucus President Karen Bass told the “State of the Union” that Trump is visiting Kenosha and to make matters worse, he added that Trump’s campaign is about law and order.
In a separate interview on Sunday, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Dum Schiff echoed Bass’s sentiments, saying Trump was “knowingly tasting the flames of this violence.”
The Democrat from California said, “And the president is motivated by only one thing, what he has in him. And he sees this violence and that – and his ability to mobilize more than that as useful to his campaign.”
White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere responded to Schiff’s remarks Sunday, saying in a statement to CNN that “liberal politicians and their incompetent policies” are to blame for the violence.
“The only people who have been blamed for the violence and riots in our streets are the liberal politicians and their incompetent policies that have failed to control these catastrophic situations,” Deere said. “This president has condemned violence in all its forms. Americans want peace for their streets and their children to grow up in a safe neighborhood, and only President Trump has shown the courage and leadership to achieve law and order and deliver results.”
In response to the black shooting, the Wisconsin governor. Tony Evers called a special legislative session last week, urging legislators to pass a police liability bill. But the Republican-controlled state legislature, which is set to embark on Monday, does not turn a blind eye to the Democratic governor’s proposal.
“The legislature is the choice, the Republican majority is the choice of the legislature tomorrow,” Barney said. “They can either work and work to solve the problems we’re facing here in Wisconsin and across the country, or they’re going to be able to tweak the tide “The most unfortunate thing that can happen at the moment is the moment.”
This story has been updated with additional developments.
CNN’s Sara Sidner, Jason Hoffman and Scotty Andrew contributed to this report.
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