Trump says supporters who harassed Biden campaign bus 'did nothing wrong'

Conservatives think they are honorable and for "law and order".  What a joke.

 Joan E Greve in Washington and agencies
Mon 2 Nov 2020 11.53 EST

Donald Trump and senior Republican leaders have continued to defend supporters of the president who participated in a caravan that surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway on Friday.
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“This story is FALSE,” the president tweeted on Monday, the last day before election day. “They did nothing wrong.”

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The historian Eric Cervini, who had flown to Texas to help with get-out-the-vote efforts, posted a video on Instagram that showed a long line of cars with Trump paraphernalia stalled along the highway, waiting for the Biden-Harris bus.

“These Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, surrounded the bus on the interstate and attempted to drive it off the road,” he wrote, adding: “As a historian who studied the rise of the Third Reich, I can tell you: this is how a democracy dies.”

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Trump appeared to seek to discourage the FBI from investigating, saying in a tweet: “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.”

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Unlike Texas, New York and New Jersey are strongly Democratic states, all but certain to go to Biden on election night. But on Sunday video footage on social media showed vehicles flying pro-Trump flags blocking traffic on the Whitestone Bridge over the East River in the Bronx, in New York City.

Local media reported similar blockades on the express lanes of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River, linking Westchester and Rockland counties in upstate New York.

The Democratic state senator David Carlucci, who represents Rockland county, called the blockades “aggressive, dangerous and reckless” and added: “We all have the right to show support for a presidential candidate, but we do not have the right to endanger others and to break the law.”

Speaking in Philadelphia on Sunday, Joe Biden said: “We’ve never had anything like this. At least we’ve never had a president who thinks it’s a good thing.”