Democrat Govs. Pritzker, Whitmer Push Back at Trump Over Protests

Democrat Govs. J.B. Pritzker and Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday pushed back at President Donald Trump over his support of protesters in their states demanding their right to return to work and to reopen businesses, claiming that he is spreading fear and putting the public at risk with his stance.

"I know what he's trying to do," Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, told Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, pushing back hard against Trump's tweets calling for the protesters gathering to protest for their rights in several states to "LIBERATE." "It’s a political maneuver in the middle of a national emergency, and he should stop it. What could it mean? It could mean terrible things. You could end up with violence."

Pritzker also claimed that people gathering in the large crowds will be "giving each other coronavirus, and people, unfortunately, will get sick and some people may die as a result of the president’s rhetoric that has brought them out to protest.”