“And paint is not — and paint as a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets. Trump said the man “shot a young gentleman and killed him — not with paint, but with a bullet. And I think it’s disgraceful.”The president offered no such condemnation, though, when it was noted that one of his supporters, Rittenhouse, has been charged with killing with actual bullets in Kenosha. ADThe exchanges highlighted the similarities and the differences between Trump’s and Biden’s approaches to the unrest. Trump’s comments about supporters who fire paintballs and pepper spray are also notably different from how he has talked about those who have used other nonlethal blunt instruments.

Source: Washington Post August 31, 2020 23:33 UTC