Trump Tweets Support To Right-Wing Protestors Violating Stay-At-Home Orders In States With Democratic Governors: ‘LIBERATE’
President Donald Trump supported right-wing social distancing protestors in a series of tweets Friday calling for the states to “LIBERATE” and ease coronavirus-related restrictions.
He wrote “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” and “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” after protests broke out in both states.
LIBERATE MINNESOTA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
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LIBERATE MICHIGAN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
More than 1,000 protesters jammed traffic near the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan earlier this week, complaining that the state’s shelter in place order — which was extended through the end of April — threatens small businesses. Other protestors who weren’t in vehicles waved Trump banners and chanted about Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying “lock her up.”
Whitmer said the protest at the State Capitol “the kind of behavior that extends the need for stay-at-home orders.”
“It was a political rally that is going to endanger people’s lives because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads,” she told MSNBC on Thursday.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, a group called “Liberate Minnesota” protested the state lockdown in front of Gov. Tim Walz‘s home. The protest violated stay-at-home orders, as it was not “essential” travel/business.
Horns have been honking for hours on Summit Ave as hundreds turn out to join the Liberate Minnesota protest and Trump Rally outside the Minnesota Governor’s Residence Friday afternoon pic.twitter.com/bKuJQDdkfr
— Glen Stubbe (@gspphoto) April 17, 2020
Trump also called for the liberation of Virginia, and urged residents to “save your great 2nd Amendment.”
LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
Although gun stores in Virginia remain open through the statewide stay-at-home order, indoor gun ranges have been closed — a decision that angered many gun rights groups and activists.
When about the president’s tweet during a virus news briefing Friday, Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam (D) responded, “I do not have time to involve myself in Twitter wars.”
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