From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   Whatta leader!   He and his family have been sequestered in the basement of the   
   'White House Situation Room' for safety and he's still spitting venom and   
   asking others to quell the riots and get tough on the rioters.  "You have to   
   dominate!" he keeps yelling.     
      
   Yeah, well, as long as someone else does the dominating, I guess.  Reminds one   
   of the bone spurs that kept him from going into any battle himself.   
      
   I wonder if he's thinking this will cancel the last dozen black votes that   
   might have been there for him in November.     
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   CNN  Updated 2:49 PM ET, Mon June 1, 2020   
      
      
   An agitated Trump encourages governors to use aggressive tactics on protesters   
      
   rump tells governors they must 'dominate' protesters   
      
      
   (CNN)President Donald Trump, agitated and distressed after three nights of   
   violent protests in dozens of cities across the country, including outside of   
   his home, told the nation's governors in a video teleconference Monday to   
   aggressively target violent    
   protesters he said would only respond to a show of force.   
      
   "You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest   
   and try people," the President told the governors in a call from the basement   
   White House Situation Room, according to an audio recording of the call   
   obtained by CNN.   
      
   In the conversation, Trump appeared angry and made no attempt at striking a   
   unifying or introspective tone, as some of his advisers have been encouraging   
   and which previous presidents have attempted during moments of national crisis.   
   Instead, Trump said the leaders must seek "retribution" for violent acts in   
   their states and advised them not to act too gingerly.   
      
   "You don't have to be too careful," he said.   
      
   He chastised what he characterized as a weak response to protests in certain   
   places, which he said allowed violence to take hold. He emphasized his belief   
   the violence is being fomented by forces from the "radical left." And he said   
   he was putting Gen.    
   Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "in charge" of the   
   protest response.   
      
   Trump suggested to governors it was their responsibility, not his, to tamp   
   down harshly on the continued unrest.   
      
   "It's a movement, if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse," Trump   
   said. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are   
   weak."   
      
   In admonishing the governors for not doing more to quell the violence, which   
   raged again on Sunday night, Trump was reverting to a hardline "law and order"   
   mantle he believes is the best way to confront growing racial unrest across   
   the nation.   
      
   Trump said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police   
   station getting burned," referring to the city where protests began last week   
   after the death of an unarmed black man who was being taken into police   
   custody.   
      
   Instead of mentioning ways to address issues of police brutality or racial   
   injustice, he said on the call it was time to reexamine the issue of flag   
   burning, which the US Supreme Court has ruled twice is protected under the   
   Constitution.   
      
   "Flag burning is a disgrace. We have a different court. It's time to review   
   that again," he said on the call.   
      
   In a back-and-forth with Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Trump said the   
   state was "a laughingstock all over the world" for not responding harshly   
   enough during a first evening of protests.   
      
   "So bad a few nights ago that the people wouldn't have minded an occupying   
   force," Trump said. "I wish we had an occupying force in there.   
      
   On the phone call, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told Trump the nation was   
   craving a steady hand from the top.   
      
   "Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are   
   experiencing real pain," Pritzker, a Democrat, told the President. "We've got   
   to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for   
   protestors."   
   "I don't like your rhetoric that much either," Trump fired back. "You could   
   have done much better on coronavirus."   
      
   The message to governors came as Trump and his advisers were continuing to   
   debate the wisdom of a national address following the protests, one of which   
   outside the White House caused him and his family to retreat to an underground   
   bunker on Friday night.   
      
   'Listening sessions' being weighed   
      
   Along with the phone call to governors -- which also included law enforcement   
   and national security officials -- aides were beginning outreach to black   
   leaders to gauge interest and availability for a "listening session" later   
   this week, which some of    
   Trump's advisers believe is necessary before delivering any formal address to   
   the nation.   
      
   During his time in office, Trump has hired only a few black senior aides. His   
   Cabinet is mostly white, with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben   
   Carson the only black member. In recent months Surgeon General Dr. Jerome   
   Adams, who is also black,    
   has taken on a more prominent role during the coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   Inside the West Wing, Ja'Ron Smith is a high-ranking African American senior   
   adviser and has been engaged in discussions with other aides over how to best   
   address the situation.   
      
   "This is one tough, smart cookie," Trump said of Smith during a roundtable   
   with African American leaders last month in Michigan.   
      
   Trump has sought to make inroads with African American voters in recent   
   months, suggesting -- as he did in the 2016 election -- that they have nothing   
   to lose in supporting him.  But he has not focused intently on issues of   
   police brutality or    
   institutional racism during the first three and half years of his presidency.   
      
   While he championed a criminal justice reform effort spearheaded by his   
   son-in-law Jared Kushner, he has also maintained the "law and order" mantle he   
   believes helped propel him to the White House and has worked to roll back   
   Obama-era initiatives meant    
   to demilitarize local police departments.   
      
   If there was any question on which side Trump was landing after three nights   
   of sometimes-violent protests -- including outside the gates of a highly   
   fortified White House -- his phone call with governors cemented the impression   
   he is focused on    
   advancing a law and order message, not necessarily the underlying issues of   
   racism and police brutality that initially sparked the protests.   
      
   "You have to dominate," he said. "If you don't dominate, you're wasting your   
   time."   
      
      
   Trump out of sight   
      
      
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