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Looting, arson, clashes, deaths: Almost two months before the presidential election, politically motivated violence is getting more and more out of hand in the United States. A Trump supporter was shot and killed in the western state of Oregon on Saturday. A parade of about 2,500 people in 600 vehicles went through Portland. Objects were thrown at the convoy and Trump fans responded with paintballs. Then the shots rang out. A white man was wounded in the chest and died on the spot. It is unclear who the shooter was.
This after a wave of violence in the wake of “Black Lives Matter” and other protests that have gripped the United States. Days before Portland there were two deaths and a paralyzed man in Wisconsin who are linked to politically motivated violence. As Election Day approaches, Republicans say the United States faces even more chaos and violence if “leftist” Joe Biden (77) is elected. Democrats accuse what is happening is “the America of Donald Trump.”
“The chaos, disorder and anarchy that we are currently experiencing, this is the America of Donald Trump,” said Florida Rep. Val Demings (63). “We are not safe in the United States from Donald Trump,” said Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar (60) of Minnesota. Trump’s chief of staff at the White House, Mark Meadows (61), replied dryly: “Most of Donald Trump’s America is peaceful.”
Portland and Kenosha
Portland Dead is the third victim of alleged political violence since the previous week. This after three months of virtually uninterrupted unrest in Portland, whose Democratic leaders are described by Trump as people who cannot prevent their citizens from destroying the city.
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, which President Trump (74) plans to visit Tuesday, a 17-year-old white boy shot two people and wounded one, to protect his city and its residents, he said, from looters.
Previously, there were massive protests and clashes in Kenosha after a police officer in Kenosha fired seven shots at the black Jacob Blake. He was hit on the back by four and the man has been paralyzed from the waist down since then. The police officers on duty wanted to have seen a knife in the hand of the 29-year-old, against whom there is apparently an arrest warrant for sexual assault.
Trump’s “law and order”
Trump also uses this violence. Kenosha has been silent again since he sent the National Guard to the city, according to a tweet from the president of the United States. The National Guard had “solved the problem in less than an hour,” Trump said. People, he says, “want law and order.”
The violence fits into the president’s campaign concept. Outgoing White House aide Kellyanne Conway, 53, said last week that more chaos, lawlessness, violence and vandalism are “better” for the president’s campaign. People have “a very clear choice of who is best for public safety and public order.” Now Trump himself is traveling to the Kenosha hotspot and campaigning where violence has increased.
Governor warns Trump of a visit
Trump, on the other hand, is not wanted in Wisconsin. The Democratic governor of the United States, Tony Evers (68), has asked Trump to cancel his visit to the city of Kenosha, plagued by protests. He was concerned that his presence “would only hamper our healing,” Evers wrote in a letter published Monday night. He also feared that a Trump visit would have to divert the resources necessary to ensure the safety of the population.
Trump is unlikely to have his travel plans dictated by a Democrat. So far, the president has also condemned all protests in the country that followed the murder of black George Floyd († 46) over police violence in Minneapolis. Trump does not want to distinguish between popular anger and protesters, whom he condemns as anarchists and terrorists. Democrats believe that Trump is the protector of the angry. Biden, his rival in the race for the White House, is an impious, Marxist and “sleepy.”
Biden wants to show his colors
The United States never seemed more divided than before these presidential elections. The hatred between supporters of the opposing party never seemed deeper. The rampant violence is just a preview of what the Trump camp would hear about what would spread in the country under President Biden.
This Biden is silent on most acute fires in America. This week he wants to call the nation to unity with a speech and show his leadership qualities, he says from his campaign office. Whereas the Trump camp portrays Biden as a man Americans should be most afraid of.
