United States President Donald Trump threatened unspecified action on Friday against any protester at his re-election rally over the weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a warning that his campaign said it was not aimed at peaceful protesters. .
"Any protester, anarchist, agitator, looter, or low-life who goes to Oklahoma, please understand, will not be treated as it has been in New York, Seattle or Minneapolis. It will be a very different scene!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
Marc Lotter, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said Trump was referring to the agitators and not the peaceful protesters.
"The president supports peaceful protests and the people who are exercising their First Amendment rights," Lotter told MSNBC in an interview after the tweet. "If we look at what we have seen in other cities with riots, looting, burning buildings and physical violence, that will be something that the police will face."
White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters at a briefing that the previous destructive protests were unacceptable, while peaceful protesters would be allowed: "What he meant were violent protesters, anarchists, looters, the kind of illegality that we saw earlier. "
The rally is Trump's first major reelection event after the new coronavirus pandemic that closed much of the country and comes amid weeks of civil unrest over the treatment of African Americans and mounting protests of racism and surveillance .
From NDTV News
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