President Donald Trump plans to move forward with a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Monday, which will include a “unifying” visit by the White House, the state governor has asked the president to reconsider and his anti-democracy B Biden. He is accused of “fanning the flames of hatred and division in our society.”
The president’s visit comes amid a week of intense tensions and protests, when a white police officer shot a black man, Jacob Black, seven times last weekend, and left him partially paralyzed.
“He loves the people of Wisconsin and he’s looking forward to talking to them directly and uniting the state,” White House Press Secretary Kyleg McKinney said Monday in an interview with “Fox and Friends.”
She mocked her idea in a speech in Pittsburgh, Wisconsin and elsewhere in Pittsburgh on Monday, saying Trump “shows the opposite” and “shows his respect for the American people by going to places where Americans grieve.” “
But Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat, doesn’t see the president’s visit as helpful, and wrote to the president on Sunday, “I’m worried your presence will only hinder our treatment.”
In his letter, Evers expressed concern that the president’s visit would redirect the city’s recovery resources “while at the same time it is important that we continue to focus on keeping the people of Kenosha safe and supporting the community response.”
While the state’s Democratic governor did not welcome the president’s visit, seven conservative members of the 23-member Kenosha County Board, representing the city’s suburbs, wrote a separate letter encouraging Trump to visit.
“Please do not cancel your plans to visit Kenosha to meet with citizens and business owners who have been devastated by last week’s violence,” the letter said. “Kenoshans are hurting this leadership in times of crisis and are looking for leadership. Kenoshas are highly praised by those devastated by the violence.”
McNee said the current plan was for the president to visit law enforcement and “some of the damage caused by the storms” in Kenosha.
Protesters marched daily for more than a week after Blake was shot, demanding racist justice and protesting police brutality. Some gatherings have damaged property, and on Tuesday, police say, an Illinois teenager opened fire during demonstrations and killed two protesters.
It remained an open question Monday whether President Blake could meet with the family. Asked about the possibility, McAnney said the White House was “trying to reach out” for the family but was “not yet able to connect.”
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters Friday that he had spoken to a pastor attached to the family but could not speak to any of Blake’s relatives.
“Our family doesn’t particularly want to take anything with him,” Blake’s uncle Justin Blake told ABC News in an interview on Sunday. “We believe he instigated this violence.”
For days after the incident, President Blake remained silent about the shooting, breaking his silence in an interview with ABC-affiliated WMUR on Friday, saying, “It was not a good vision, I definitely did not like the vision and most people would agree. With that. “
On Monday, McNney will not say whether Trump has condemned the alleged actions of teenager, Kyle Rittenhouse, who prosecutors say shot and killed two people in Kenosha.
He told a news conference at the White House that the president would not re-emphasize it.
Trump “liked” a tweet over the weekend, saying Rittenhouse was “a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump.”
In an interview with ABC News, McCanneni said Trump did so “to draw attention to some details that are not known in the case,” including that the Rittenhouse was being attacked, and that one of the people involved in the incident Arriving at the scene they had a gun. “
Rittenhouse’s lawyers have ruled that the teenager was assaulted. According to prosecutors, the third man who shot Rittenhaus – Gage Grosscreutz, who was wounded but did not die – held a handgun in his hand when he was shot.
“There were some details that weren’t in public or as much as they should have been, so he was referring to it like this,” McAnney said.
Annoying his next trip on Twitter, the president on Monday said, “I’ll see you on Tuesday!” And took the credit for being sent to the National Guard with the misleading claim that it was linked to another foreign claim that “otherwise there would be no canosha right now”.
But it was the governor of Wisconsin – not the president – who activated the National Guard. The president does not have the right to dispatch the National Guard as he wishes, as he indicates in a tweet and has previously claimed.
The President may, in exceptional circumstances, demand a Rebellion Act to send domestic active duty federal forces, when the President has not done so.
But at a campaign rally on Friday, however, Trump said “we need to see” possibly moving forward using the Rebellion Act to prepare his election campaign in terms of a mission to “save democracy from the mob.” ”
During nationwide, largely peaceful protests during the presidency, the president threatened never to do so in the end.
The report is contributed by ABC News’ Whitney Lloyd, Johrin Shah and Janice MacDonald.
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