The head of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York met with Eric Adams, the city’s mayor-elect, to discuss policing and warned that there will be “bloodshed” if the city returns to its pre-De Blasio model, according to a report.
Arresting peaceful demonstrators is anti-American. Peaceful protesting, whether it’s done by Trump supporters on Jan. 6 or Defund the Police supporters in the summer of 2020, is as American as apple pie.
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"Over the summer, as the bipartisan infrastructure package cleared the Senate, Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio came up with a curious pitch. The Ohioan, who’s retiring at the end of next year and who helped negotiate the bipartisan deal, tried to suggest — both in the media and on the Senate floor — that Donald Trump deserves at least some credit for the legislation.
It was, to be sure, a comical argument. But as we discussed in August, Portman’s rhetoric seemed to include an implicit recommendation: The senator was effectively telling the former president, “Stop attacking the infrastructure compromise and start pretending it was your idea.”
Trump, not surprisingly, ignored the advice and worked furiously to try to derail the bill — not because it was flawed, but because he didn’t want President Joe Biden to get “a big and beautiful win” that might benefit Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.
As it turns out, Portman wasn’t alone in trying to shift credit to Trump. Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York — one of 13 GOP House members who supported the bipartisan package — appeared on CNN yesterday morning and was asked why Biden was finally able to get an infrastructure bill through Congress after Trump tried and failed to do the same thing. The congresswoman replied:
"Well, I think at the end of the day, look, President Trump laid the groundwork for this infrastructure to pass. He also wanted $1 trillion in spending into America’s infrastructure… So, I’m happy and I’m appreciative to President Trump for being one of the first to really talk about the need for infrastructure."