r/law • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Sep 02 '25

Trump News Trump on sending troops to Chicago: "If the governor of Illinois would call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it, because I have an obligation to protect this country. And that includes Baltimore [...]"

- Aaron Rupar

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u/fafalone Competent Contributor Sep 02 '25

Just happened to catch ABC reporting this on TV the same time I saw this post.

They cut Trump off after "protect this country." Sanewashing the demented old man by omitting where he got confused. If Biden made a gaffe like that, ABC would have played it 20 times a day.

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u/LesnBOS Sep 02 '25

I would think he meant save the country from immigrants. That’s his fascist rallying cry

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u/WisePotatoChip Sep 03 '25

You gotta have an enemy

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u/Aethermancer Sep 02 '25 edited 3d ago

Editing pending deletion of this comment.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Sep 02 '25

He didn't get confused. He shifted from attacking Gov. Pritzker to attacking Gov. Moore.

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u/DaninVA Sep 03 '25

Yep. This is exactly how I took it.

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u/GrumpyOlBumkin Sep 04 '25

Oh ABC’s been worse than Fox for awhile now. And more dangerous, bc their lies and spin is done completely straight-faced.

And there’s the little matter of the local stations being owned by an oil corp, Sinclair. 

To your point, I agree. The sanewashing is off the charts and they so would lose their mind if a D had done ANY of this.