There should be “unrest in the streets” over President Trump and his political allies turning a “deaf ear” to the concerns of Americans, including those about the “dismantling” of the US Postal Service – what comes for oppression of voters, American rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Said Friday.
Conservatives on Twitter soon condemned Pressley’s comments as “unhinged,” “horrible” and “disgusting.”
Pressley made her remarks Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”
“This is equally about public intimidation, organizing and mobilizing and applying pressure,” Pressley said, referring to steps that Democratic lawmakers can take, “so that this GOP-led Senate and these governors who continue with water to carry for this administration people in the way of harm, turn a deaf ear to the needs of our families and our communities – hold them accountable.
‘Use the phones, send the email, appear,’ she continued. “You know, there must be unrest in the streets as long as there is unrest in our lives.”
There was no indication that Pressley necessarily meant anything other than peaceful protest. Critics on social media, however, accused them of condoling lawlessness.
Pressley’s remarks followed months of protests and uprisings in US cities, over racial injustice – although critics, including police, have claimed that some participants were destructive simply by opportunism.
Pressley also called on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed by the Postal Service Board of Governors in May, to dismiss him for “corruption” over his restructuring of the Postal Service. At the “bare minimum,” she said, DeJoy would have to appear before the House oversight committee.
Protesters gathered outside DeJoy’s home on Saturday amid concerns that changes to the postal service could make sending emails more difficult and exempt voters, Washington’s WUSA-TV reported.
In 2016, then-candidate Trump said he thought there would be ‘injustices’ if the Republican nomination was given to someone else.
“I think you would have riots,” he said in March of that year. ‘I think you should have rioted. I represent many, many millions of people … I think bad things would happen, I really do … I would not lead it, but I think bad things would happen. “
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