To Protest Columbus' Discovery of America, Antifa Topples Statues of Noted White Supremacists Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

They all scoffed at Trump when he said that Robert E. Lee would be the first statue toppled, but then they'd move on to Washington and Jefferson.

They literally laughed at him and claimed that observation was itself racist.

And here we are.

Now the Great Emancipator is insufficiently woke to have a public statue.

President Trump called on federal law enforcement to target the "Radical Left" and Antifa after rioters in Portland on Sunday evening toppled statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt during "day of rage" protests over the Christopher Columbus holiday.

"The FBI and Law Enforcement must focus their energy on ANTIFA and the Radical Left, those who have spent the summer trying to burn down poorly run Democrat Cities throughout the USA!," the president wrote in a string of tweets Monday after the "indigenous peoples day of rage," organized by a faction of Antifa.

"Taking advantage of fools. Law & Order! Portland, call in the Feds!," Trump said in another posting.

If Biden has a plan to stop the riots -- um, why doesn't he share it?

Looks like "Just an Idea" continues organizing violent, criminal actions.

Last week -- Thursday I think -- there was a debate between Antifa-friendly mayor Ted Wheeler and Actual Antifa Member Sarah Iannarone. This video clip is cued up for the question and her evasive response.

She simply will not answer whether or not she's actually antifa-- but the strong suggestion she offers is that she is.

And the media moderator's attempt to get her to actually answer the question, and her further evasive responses.

And then a third attempt to get her to say if she'll ever arrest antifa, ending with Iannarone declaring that her method of controlling the riots will only consist of arresting more and more cops.

She says she "can't control" what her fellow antifa members do at their nightly riots, so there is no law enforcement solution to the riots. But for some reason, she "can control" what cops do, and will arrest them to achieve "accountability."

She does not explain why arrests and criminal punishments will achieve "accountability" with regard to police behavior, but will not have a similar salutary effect as regards antifa misbehavior.

Note that the media moderator here does keep pressing the admitted antifa candidate -- but then, the media is always very tough on Democrats' opponents.

Recall that a poll from last week showed Wheeler down 11 points to the antifa candidate. Proving the maxim that if you give the voters a choice between an actual socialist and a watered-down mealy-mouthed soft-socialist, why, they'll just go and pick the person who's at least upfront about her beliefs.

posted by Ace at 02:07 PM

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