Donald Trump, arguing Thursday in a speech hours after arrests were announced that Trump’s words had been a “rallying cry” for extremists.Whitmer, a Democrat, said the Republican president has spent the last seven months of the coronavirus pandemic “denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division.” FBI foils far-right plot to kidnap Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer She singled out Trump’s debate comments, when he didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and told one far-right extremist group to “stand up and stand by.”“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” Whitmer said.