Two of Trump’s top go-to GOP collaborators in the U.S. Senate, John Cornyn (R-TX) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) have stepped in to defend their Leader’s gassing of peacefully protesting Americans in order to pose with a Bible for a photo op.
Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the GOP leadership team, said the protesters had to be cleared out "for security purposes" since Trump was "walking over to the church" and they were asked to clear "but refused to do so."
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Asked if the President should have gone to the church for a photo-op that led to tear gas and other measures to be used on the protesters, Cornyn criticized the media and others who are "never going to find any good or any positive development in anything. So you can characterize it the way you want, but obviously the President is free to go where he wants and to hold up a Bible if he wants," calling it a "civil message."
You see, it’s the protester’s own fault. They didn’t move fast enough. Not buying that? Then, it’s the media’s fault.
But it’s certainly not Trump’s fault.
And then we move to Mr. Grassley:
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the most senior Republican in the Senate, told CNN that peaceful protesters have the right to demonstrate but he didn't know the extent to which the "police might expect violence from some of the people -- maybe 5% of the people -- and that could be a potential problem, the answer would be, it's OK" to clear them out with force.
So if police might expect “violence” from 5% of the crowd, it’s OK to gas all of them.
That’s what “the most senior Republican in the Senate” thinks.
It gets better:
Asked about the fact that the protesters were acting peacefully, Grassley said: "It's all assumed to be peaceful until someone that's got a terrorist activity or a rioting activity, you don't know that until it happens. So I don't know if they could have known that."
So it’s better to gas peaceful protesters first, “just in case.”
These protests are showing us many things. The callous, fascistic attitudes towards Americans demonstrated by these these Trump-enablers in the U.S Senate shouldn’t be forgotten when the dust finally clears.