CSI: American Carnage (Tuesday, September 1, 2020)
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The president muses with Fox personality Laura Ingraham on the disgrace of Portland and the people in the shadows, Aug. 31, 2020 (excerpts):
TRUMP: Well, these are terrible and very incompetent people. Portland’s been burning for many years. For decades it’s been burning, but now it’s gotten to a point they don’t want to — I watched the mayor try and get in with these people, and he went to a protest, and he went in and they almost killed him. If he didn’t have security with him — he had five security guards — he would have been dead, just like they would have done to Rand Paul, who’s a great guy, and his wife, Kelley. It is a disgrace when you look at what’s happening. … I think the people of Portland and the people of Oregon — I know it’s a liberal state, considered liberal — they’re tired of it. They’re tired of having — of living with this curse. They’re living with a curse. They say that when you walk through the streets of Portland, this is years and years of burning … — but no. It’s been going on for many — it’s been going on for many, many years. It’s like, you’re in — I won’t name the city, but it’s a city someplace in the world that’s not so good, OK? It’s a terrible situation….
TRUMP: Take a look at what’s going on. And Biden — well Biden is — I don’t even like to mention Biden, because he’s not controlling anything. They control him –
INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former Obama officials?
TRUMP: People that you’ve never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows.
INGRAHAM: What does that mean? That sounds like conspiracy theory. Dark shadow, what is that?
TRUMP: No. People that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets. We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear and this and that. They’re on a plane.
INGRAHAM: Where — where was this?
TRUMP: I’ll tell you sometime, but it’s under investigation right now, but they came from a certain city, and this person was coming to the Republican National Convention, and there were like seven people on the plane like this person, and then a lot of people were on the plane to do big damage. They were coming for — [Crosstalk]
INGRAHAM: Planning for Washington?
TRUMP: Yes, this was all — this is all happening.
INGRAHAM: But the money is coming from somewhere. When –
TRUMP: Money is coming from –
INGRAHAM: how can it be tracked?
TRUMP: — some very stupid rich people that have no idea that if their thing ever succeeded, which it won’t, they will be thrown to the wolves like you’ve never seen before.