Washington Post: “Joe Biden on Thursday took aim at President Trump’s response to the recent unrest in Wisconsin sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, arguing the president appears to be ‘rooting’ for the violence. ‘I think he views it as a political benefit,’ Biden said of Trump in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday afternoon. He added: ‘He just keeps pouring fuel on the fire. This is his America now.'”
“Earlier Thursday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested in an interview on ‘Fox & Friends’ that the unrest has drawn a contrast between Trump’s leadership and a potential Biden presidency. She argued, in part, ‘the more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order.’ During the MSNBC interview, Biden read Conway’s words aloud and asked: ‘When has a spokesperson for a president ever said something like that? Ever?’ He contended the ‘biggest safety issue’ right now isn’t violence in U.S. cities — as Trump and his allies have suggested — but rather the thousands of Americans dying of covid-19.”