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President Trump’s calls for law and order, and for governors to crack down on the riots and looting in their cities, had spurred on more liberal media suggestions that he was heading a despotic regime; CNN’s Jim Acosta even thought himself brave enough to ask Trump if America was still a democracy. Further pushing that insinuation on Sunday, ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz appeared on Good Morning America claimed Trump wanted to bring “combat troops” to bear against peaceful protesters.
But while ABC was mischaracterizing Trump’s use of active-duty military, they completely ignored the ambush of sheriff’s deputies in Santa Cruz, California, where one was murdered and two more injured.
Raddatz’s false depiction of what Trump wanted was invited by co-anchor Dan Harris, who gawked at claims Trump was losing the cooperation of the Pentagon.
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