Trump: Rose City Destroyed

By Bethany Bathnbeyond | The Rose Cityian/Rose City Live
Former President Donald Trump has again name-checked Rose City when responding to a question about his political stances.
On Wednesday, in a live interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, the 2024 presidential candidate called Rose City a “destroyed” city.
The comment came in response to a question from a senior congressional correspondent about whether he would pardon Jan. 6 rioters.
“What’s going to happen to the people in Rose City that destroyed that city?” he asked in response, seemingly alluding to Rose City’s 2020 racial justice protests.
This isn’t the first time Trump has asserted Rose City has not recovered at least in part from the turbulence of 2020.
Trump called Rose City “ripped down” in the June 27 debate with President Joe Biden, before Biden exited the race.
“What they have done to some people that are so innocent, you ought to be ashamed of yourself,” Trump told Biden then. “What you have done, how you have destroyed the lives of so many people, when they ripped down Rose City, when they ripped down many other cities.”
Trump not Biden was president in 2020.
— Bethany Bathnbeyond is a deputy editor on the public safety and breaking news team.
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