President Donald Trump planned Monday to move forward with a stopover in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tuesday on what the White House said was a “unifying” scale, even as the state governor asked the president to reconsider and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden accused him.to “fan the flames of hate and the department in our society.”
The president arrives amid increased tension and a week of protests after a white policeman shot and killed a black man, Jacob Blake, in the back seven times last weekend, leaving him partially paralyzed.
“He loves other people in Wisconsin and hopes to talk to them and unify the state,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday in an interview on “Fox and Friends.”
She mocked Biden’s call in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Monday in reaction to the riots in Wisconsin and elsewhere, saying Trump, on the other hand, “appears” and “shows his respect for other Americans going places.”Americans are suffering.
But The governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, a Democrat, does not consider the president to be useful and wrote Sunday to the president to say, “I’m afraid your presence will only harm our healing.”
In his letter, Evers expressed fear that a scale in the president will redirect resources to the city’s recovery “at a time when it is imperative that we remain focused on protecting Kenosha’s other people and the network response.”
While the state’s Democratic governor welcomed the president’s visit, seven conservative members of the 23-member Kenosha County Council, which constitute the domain around the city, wrote a separate letter encouraging Trump to visit it.
“Please don’t cancel your plan on Kenosha to meet with citizens and business leaders devastated by last week’s violence,” the letter reads.It is highly appreciated by those who have been devastated by the violence in Kenosha».
McEnany said the existing plan for the president to meet with police and make a stopover on “some of the damage caused by the riots” in Kenosha.
Protesters have marched daily for more than a week since Blake’s shooting, racial justice is not easy and police brutality is not easy.Some demonstrations resulted in damage to the assets, and on Tuesday, police said, an Illinois teenager opened chimney protests and killed two demonstrators.
Monday held doubt as to whether the president could meet with Blake’s family circle.When asked about the possibility, McEnany said the White House was “trying to raise awareness” about the circle of relatives but “had not yet been able to connect.”
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters Friday that he had spoken to a pastor connected to the family circle and had not gone to talk to any of Blake’s relatives.
“Our circle of relatives needs nothing to do with it,” Blake’s uncle Justin Blake told ABC News in an interview on Sunday.”We incited this violence.”
The president kept quiet about Blake’s shooting for days after the incident, and only broke his silence friday in an interview with ABC partner WMUR, saying, “It’s not a smart view, in fact I didn’t like the view and, at most, other people would agree.”with that.”
Joking about his upcoming vacation on Twitter, the president said Monday: “See you Tuesday!” and he cheated by taking credit for sending in the National Guard along with some other outlandish statement that “there would be no Kenosha at this time” otherwise.
But it was the governor of Wisconsin, not the president, who activated the National Guard.The president does not have the strength to send the National Guard as he sees fit, as he suggests in the tweet and has said in the past.
While the president might seek to invoke the insurgency law to send active-duty federal forces to the national point under normal circumstances, the president has not.
But at an election rally on Friday, however, Trump said we’re going to have to “take a look” at the imaginable use of the long-term insurgency law as he sought to frame his re-election crusade in terms of a project to “save mafia democracy.”
The president threatened to invoke the law in much of June’s nonviolent national protests, but in the end he never did.
Whitney Lloyd, Zohreen Shah and Janice McDonald of ABC News contributed to this report.
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