Democrats endorsed and funded the riots, now they pretend to condemn them.

Mayor Ted Wheeler recently told Oregon Public Radio that his only strategy for dealing with the violence in Portland is to let it "Burn itself out."

After a pro-Trump activist was shot by one of the leftist rioters whom Mayor Wheeler had enabled, the Democrat boss began his comments on the shooting by denouncing President Trump and his supporters who had traveled in a caravan flying Trump 2020 flags.

The rally of as many as 1,000 Trump supporters went forward in Clackamas with no major incidents, before hundreds of cars flying Trump and Blue Lives Matter banners headed to downtown Portland.

Kafoury, like Wheeler, and Governor Kate Brown, dedicated their statement about the shooting to blaming President Trump for the violence being carried out by their own political base.

It's a little too late for the Democrat nominee to disavow the violence he funded and try to blame the whole thing on President Trump.

The coordinated messaging by local and national Democrats shows that they're responding to negative polls by trying to shift the blame for the violence of their own radicals to President Trump, rather than actually condemning and trying to stop the violence of their supporters.

These are not condemnations of violence, but carefully coordinated talking points, tested in focus groups, whose real message is that the violence is President Trump's fault and that it won't stop until the Democrats take over the country.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/democrat-violence-takes-life-portland-daniel-greenfield/