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While Trump has decried violent protests in Kenosha, he has yet to weigh in on the police shooting of Blake, who was reportedly paralyzed from the waist down in the incident. Nor has he offered an opinion on the case against Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who was charged on Thursday with first-degree murder and attempted homicide for shooting two protesters to death and injuring a third during a street confrontation.
Trump has promised to issue a comment about the teen's case within the next few days once the investigation is complete."Well, you know, that's under investigation right now and they'll be reporting back to me over the next 24 hours, 48 hours maybe, max, and we'll have a comment about it. Right now we're looking at it very, very carefully."Supporters have said Rittenhouse acted in self-defense while being attacked by protesters, while critics have painted the teen vigilante as a cold-blooded murderer, with some such as left-wing Twitter 'pundit' Rob Gill going so far as to call for mob justice if the teenager is acquitted.
The basic problem is that the United States has devolved into a hyper militarized oligarchic state. The vast, growing social inequality in the nation, and its grotesque waste of economic resources on militarism are but two manifestations of this state. That is the outcome of decades of US corporate capitalism. All Western states tend to share similar deformities, but the American version of the disease is at its most virulent and moribund.The next problem is that there is no informed public debate, awareness or political leadership to diagnose the disease and how to cure it.
Comment: Ford Foundation is the financial hand within the protest glove, enabling the desecration of cities and communities with planned chaos and funded violence.
The RAIR Foundation also investigated, finding evidence that members of the Clinton organization were working in parallel: