Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is set to issue an address on Monday concerning the ongoing riots that have ravaged major cities throughout the country for the past three months. He is reportedly planning to connect the unrest to President Donald Trump rather than to leftist agitators who have been captured on camera and appear in arrest records.
The Daily Wire reported that Biden will give the speech from an “undisclosed location”—likely Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Kenosha, Wisconsin—to “condemn violence, and to note that chaos has unfolded” under Trump’s watch.
“Mr. Biden, who has been a firm supporter of peaceful protests, is expected to travel on Monday to condemn violence and to note that chaos has unfolded on Mr. Trump’s watch, according to someone familiar with his plans,” The New York Times reported on Sunday.
“He is also expected to charge more broadly that the president is seeking to change the subject from the coronavirus and economic challenges the country faces. Details of his Monday plans weren’t immediately clear.”
Democrats and progressive activists have spearheaded an effort to pin the nationwide unrest in Portland, Minneapolis, and Kenosha on the failures of Trump, which suggests that they wish Trump would do more to stifle the spread of the violence that has resulted in vandalism, arson, burglary, assault, and murder. The issue here is that Trump is not wanted in cities such as Portland, where Mayor Ted Wheeler barred Trump from sending in the National Guard to put down the violent riots.
A Trump supporter was executed in Portland last night
Ted Wheeler just the other day rejected Federal assistance from Trump
The dominoes are falling and what comes next is predictable https://t.co/WCPeJv0fsk
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) August 30, 2020
Video evidence appears to contradict the statement that Trump is somehow at fault. Footage, according to the Daily Wire, largely shows “left-leaning activist groups targeting conservatives.” On Thursday, footage merged of protesters in Washington, D.C., harassing Trump supporters leaving the president’s Republican nomination acceptance speech. It was reported early Sunday that a Trump supporter had allegedly been executed in Portland by suspected anarchists.
In a speech to the National Guard Association of the United States over the weekend, Biden made his first effort at pinning unrest on Trump in claiming that he was the one who dispatched the military and encouraged the deployment of National Guard troops to act out personal vendettas.
“I promise you, as president, I’ll never put you in the middle of politics, or personal vendettas,” Biden shared with the group. “I’ll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens. That’s not law and order. You don’t deserve that.”
The National Guard was called to duty amid the unrest that had broken out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the shooting of Jacob Blake—a man who had allegedly sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend and was charged with domestic abuse.
Biden has not yet uttered a word about the violence that took place last week. Democrats are, the Daily Wire reported, beginning to fear riots and unrest are having an adverse effect on the Democratic nominee’s chances of prevailing in November. Axios reported last week that “Democrats close to Joe Biden increasingly fear the looting and violence in cities could help President Trump, especially among the few undecided or wavering Americans”—a sentiment that appears to be evident based on recent reporting.
1). BREAKING: Democracy Institute shows Trump up nationally and in battlegrounds:
National Popular Vote:
Trump 48
Biden 45Battlegrounds of FL, IA, MI, MN, PA
Trump 49
Biden 42— PollWatch (@PollWatch2020) August 30, 2020
While there have been a number of occasions where Biden has verbally condemned the riots, these instances are instantly negated by the fact that he also advocates for the reversal of “systemic racism”—the very thing that ignited the riots from the outset. Though it is not a direct call to violence, it is something of an endorsement of criminal behavior so long as it is done in the name of a myth called “systemic racism.”