As I mention farther up this thread, Trump wants footage of unrest in majority-minority cities on the news — even if he has to manufacture the conditions for it — and regards such footage as an in-kind contribution to his re-election campaign. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1285244981322690560

. @ThePlumLineGS: “Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement into Democratic-led cities is every bit as devoted to manufacturing and sustaining a campaign attack on Biden as his manipulation of national security policy in the Ukraine scandal was.”

Yep. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/21/once-again-trump-says-corrupt-part-out-loud/

. @jbouie: “Democrats should condition final passage of its Homeland Security appropriations bill on a complete halt to operations in Portland and other cities and the dissolution of the response force.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/portland-homeland-security.html

House Democrats: are y'all planning to zero out funding for Trump's paramilitary adventures in the pending Homeland Security appropriations bill, or … ?

Tick-tock. https://twitter.com/yamiche/status/1286028583874564096

Yes, this is the bottom line. What resembles hypocrisy to outsiders instead reflects this consistent right-wing worldview: our tribe is in charge, you don't count, F you. https://twitter.com/athertonkd/status/1286031079506206720

Or as a composer wrote, in what might be one of the most widely quoted blog comments ever: https://twitter.com/samadlerbell/status/1265775048071184385