Hundreds of protesters were gathering outside the gates, shouting curses at President Trump and in some cases throwing bricks and bottles. Nervous for his safety, Secret Service agents abruptly rushed the president to the underground bunker used in the past during terrorist attacks.
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... Mr. Trump and his family have been rattled by protests that turned violent three nights in a row near the Executive Mansion.
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Mr. Trump spent Sunday out of sight...
😂
By nightfall on Sunday, protesters had returned to vicinity of the White House in force, and sirens wailed through much of the downtown Washington...
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Mr. Trump remained cloistered inside, periodically sending out Twitter messages like “LAW & ORDER!”...
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One adviser to Mr. Trump, who insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations, said images of widespread destruction across the country could be helpful to the law-and-order message that Mr. Trump has tried to project since his 2016 campaign.
The adviser said that it could particularly appeal to older women at a time when Mr. Trump’s support among seniors has eroded amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected them. The risk, this adviser added, is that people are worn out by the president’s behavior.
[Oh yeah, I did read somebody, I don’t want to cast no aspersions, say something like that, that “people had made their minds up” about Trump, something like that.]
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In response to questions about what he was doing to address the tumult, Mr. Trump forwarded a reply through an aide that focused on the upcoming campaign.
“I’m going to win the election easily,” the president said. “The economy is going to start to get good and then great, better than ever before. I’m getting more judges appointed by the week, including two Supreme Court justices, and I’ll have close to 300 judges by the end of the year.”
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The president and his family were rattled by their experience on Friday night, according to several advisers.
🤣You did that just to needle him Peter, Mary, donchu lie now!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/trump-protests-george-floyd.html#click=https://t.co/G1Pb1gTwtr
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... Mr. Trump and his family have been rattled by protests that turned violent three nights in a row near the Executive Mansion.
...
Mr. Trump spent Sunday out of sight...
😂
By nightfall on Sunday, protesters had returned to vicinity of the White House in force, and sirens wailed through much of the downtown Washington...
...
Mr. Trump remained cloistered inside, periodically sending out Twitter messages like “LAW & ORDER!”...
🤣
...
One adviser to Mr. Trump, who insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations, said images of widespread destruction across the country could be helpful to the law-and-order message that Mr. Trump has tried to project since his 2016 campaign.
The adviser said that it could particularly appeal to older women at a time when Mr. Trump’s support among seniors has eroded amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected them. The risk, this adviser added, is that people are worn out by the president’s behavior.
[Oh yeah, I did read somebody, I don’t want to cast no aspersions, say something like that, that “people had made their minds up” about Trump, something like that.]
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In response to questions about what he was doing to address the tumult, Mr. Trump forwarded a reply through an aide that focused on the upcoming campaign.
“I’m going to win the election easily,” the president said. “The economy is going to start to get good and then great, better than ever before. I’m getting more judges appointed by the week, including two Supreme Court justices, and I’ll have close to 300 judges by the end of the year.”
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The president and his family were rattled by their experience on Friday night, according to several advisers.
🤣You did that just to needle him Peter, Mary, donchu lie now!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/trump-protests-george-floyd.html#click=https://t.co/G1Pb1gTwtr
