"It's a measure of President Donald Trump's lack of self-awareness a superpower, really, for authoritarian demagogues like him who otherwise would shrink from their worst impulses that he apparently doesn't see the evident contradiction in his simultaneous support for protesters in Iran and damnation of those in his own country. For days, Trump has preened as the all-powerful protector of Iranian protesters against their nation's repressive regime."
"But what was on the way to Minneapolis, he'd posted just an hour earlier, was RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION. Its citizens his citizens were demonstrating in growing numbers against the paramilitary that Trump has created among Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, one of whom last week killed a woman there, Renee Nicole Good. Trump counterproductively increased the ICE deployment in the city, already more than triple the size of the Minneapolis police force."
"On Sunday night, Trump had justified Good's slaying this way: The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement. This from the man who watched on TV for three hours on Jan. 6, 2021, as demonstrators at the U.S. Capitol disrespected law enforcement with chemical sprays, poles, planks, fists and bike racks. And he did nothing. Because they were pro-Trump protesters. Once back in office, he pardoned nearly 1,600 of them."
Donald Trump publicly praised Iranian protesters while condemning and threatening American demonstrators, revealing stark contradictions in his stance toward protest. He urged Iranians to "take over your institutions" while calling for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" against Minneapolis protesters. Trump increased ICE deployment in Minneapolis after an agent killed Renee Nicole Good, and defended the killing as due to "disrespectful" behavior. He watched the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on television for hours without intervening, later pardoning nearly 1,600 participants. The White House later rewrote the events of Jan. 6 to portray Capitol Police as aggressors, further inverting responsibility.
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