NBC News: “After a week that saw the summerlong protests over police treatment of Black Americans intensify, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that President Donald Trump is ‘on the side of law enforcement and the rule of law.'”
“When asked repeatedly whether Trump would try to de-escalate tensions among his supporters, some of whom have been accused of provoking violence with protestors, Meadows answered that the president is backing law enforcement and that the federal government is ‘willing to provide additional assets’ to states looking to control unrest. Pointing to recent protests of Trump’s convention speech in Washington as an example, Meadows said that ‘the largely peaceful protests that happened on the mall were certainly not something that anyone condemned,’ but that he drew a line at ‘splinters’ that came off the main protest and harassed several of those leaving the president’s GOP convention speech Thursday night.”