President Donald Trump sat down with Fox News host Laura Ingraham to discuss the shooting of an alleged Trump supporter in Portland on Saturday. Not only did Mayor Ted Wheeler refuse the federal government's assistance in sending in the National Guard to put down the unrest leading up to the shooting, the mayor proceeded to pin the unrest on the president just one day after one of his supporters was killed by what appears to be a member of Antifa.
Ingraham began the segment by drawing out the fact that Mayor Ted Wheeler had denied Trump's offer to send in the National Guard after three consecutive months of unrest. As a result, one of Trump's supporters was executed in the streets or Portland.
.@IngrahamAngle's asks @realDonaldTrump about Portland, Ore. and the antifa shooting that occurred over the weekend. Full: https://t.co/khle7NLmKD #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/Z4DbjG9ada
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Trump responded: "Well these are terrible and very incompetent people. I've offered to send in the National Guard, I've offered to send in anybody they want. I could put that [the unrest] out in forty-five minutes, and it would stop."
"And I think the people of Portland and the people of Oregon... I know it's a liberal state, considered liberal, they're tired of it. They're tired of living with this curse, they're living with a curse."
"It's like you're in... I won't name the city, but it's a city someplace in the world that's not so good, okay? It's a terrible situation."
Ingraham chimed in: "The Oregon governor said, 'No one is safe in Donald Trump's America.' They're trying to turn the tables on you."
The quote Ingraham is referring to is when Governor Kate Brown issued a statement on the Portland protests, saying: "President Trump has encouraged division and stoked violence... no one is truly safe with Donald Trump as president."
Trump interjected by saying that they [liberal leaders] will not stand up against the violence happening in their own cities, adding that they "stick up for the violence." He continued by saying that liberal leaders do not care about the people who are getting hurt.
When Ingraham asked Trump why he believed liberal leaders continue to allow violence and destruction to run rampant in their own cities, he said that he "honestly" thinks it's a "sickness."
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