Headline Roundup • June 9th, 2020
Trump Says Man Shoved by Buffalo Police "Could Be" Connected to Antifa
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Washington Examiner
Senate Democrats called on Republicans to denounce President Trump’s Tuesday morning tweet claiming a video of a police officer pushing a protester to the ground was “a set up.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, and several other Republicans declined to comment on the tweet, while others criticized it or said it was part of Trump’s overall Twitter habit.
“That’s a disgrace,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Tuesday. “They can’t even speak out on that?”
Several Republicans criticized the tweet, among them Lisa Murkowski, of...
Mother Jones
Even by the ever-sinking standards of President Trump’s fondness for right-wing conspiracy theories, his latest is something to behold.
On Tuesday, Trump accused the elderly protester who was violently shoved to the ground by Buffalo police last Thursday of staging the incident as an operation for Antifa. The incredible accusation—entirely baseless—defies the reality captured in a widely seen video that has since led to the firing of the two officers who pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino, causing him to bleed from the head, during a protest against police brutality outside Buffalo’s...
The Hill
President Trump on Tuesday shared an unfounded conspiracy theory that an incident in which an elderly man was pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., during a protest over the police killing of George Floyd could be a "set up."
The president cited right-wing One America News Network (OANN) in making the incendiary claim, which comes amid a national debate over police brutality.
"Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in...
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