On Tuesday, 1 September, Donald Trump was in Jacob Blake’s backyard, as the saying goes, but did not bother to visit him or his family. Since the announcement that the American president intended to visit Kenosha, the big question had been whether he would see Blake or meet his family. The response was obfuscatory and consistent – the official version of “crickets”: TIt’s unclear if 29-year-old Blake will ever walk again.
He said the National Guard should be called out to every city that experienced protests – he named Portland, Oregon, where Trump supporters deliberately and aggressively inserted themselves into a protest march on 29 August, and where later that night, a man was shot and killed – as Trump believed the National Guard would decisively quell any protests. “It would all be over very, very quickly.”
The closest the US president came to mentioning the killing of the black man, which had set off the actions leading up to his presence in Kenosha, was when he seemed to excuse the officer who had shot Blake: “You have people that choke!” This is politics. Wisconsin is a critical state – with 10 electoral votes, a presidential candidate needs 270 to gain a majority, meaning, to win. Trump has presented himself as tough on crime, chasing a second term in office with the theme of “Law and Order”, often tweeting it – sometimes in all caps.
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