Politicians, former officials, activists and others on social media vented their fury, tweeting “#ThisisAmerica” posting pictures and videos that highlighted the different ways Black and Brown protesters were treated by police compared to the Capitol insurrectionists.
#DID NANCY PELOSI TEAR UP A BIBLE WINDOWS#
We wouldn’t have made it to get into the door and bust windows and go put our feet up on desks of Congress members. Had it been the same amount of people but had they been Black and brown. “There are pictures and videos of police officers just walking away. “It was almost like there was this call to not use force,” Bush said. Cori Bush (D-Missouri), a veteran of Black Lives Matters protests in Ferguson, Missouri, appeared on MSNBC Wednesday night and criticized the disparate treatment. The tweets had more engagements and retweets than almost any other from Biden’s White House, or previous ones.Rep. They went viral by naming Republicans, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, who had criticized student loan forgiveness while benefiting from their own business loan forgiveness. White House aides spent the late afternoon using the official Twitter account - normally reserved for policy charts, press releases and fact sheets - to go on the attack. Andy Harris (R-Md.) for touting a local project he had voted against. The president accused the GOP of “semi-fascism” and said he doesn’t respect, and can’t work with, “MAGA Republicans” who he said “embrace political violence.” He hardened his assertion that democracy is under threat, and said the country could be facing the sort of test that comes every few generations, “one of the moments that changes everything.”įrom a high school auditorium in Rockville, Md., Biden also mocked Rep. On Thursday night, he used newly ramped-up rhetoric in ways that the White House and Biden’s political advisers are signaling will be part of a no-holds-barred strategy for the midterms. Whitmer's response, after Pelosi gave the official one.- Aaron Blake February 5, 2020Įarlier in the day, Pelosi said that she and the president have not spoken since an infamous White House meeting on Syria in October during which Pelosi stood up and admonished the president, later saying that Trump had “a meltdown” at the meeting. PELOSI: “It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.”- Frank Thorp V February 5, 2020 PELOSI: “Because it was the courteous thing to do.” /SCJqWX0mj2- Sade Baderinwa February 5, 2020Īsked why she literally ripped Trump’s speech afterwards, Pelosi later said that she did it because it was “the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative.”
Prior to the speech, Trump had conspicuously avoided shaking hands with Pelosi - passing her his prepared remarks in a thick folder, but ignoring her outstretched hand.Īfter the president concluded his remarks, Speaker Pelosi stood up and tore Trump’s prepared text in half: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promptly ripped President Trump’s State of the Union speech in half at the conclusion of his annual address to Congress on Tuesday night. Pelosi wasted no time tearing into Trump’s speech.
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