Cynical Conclusion: Ignoring the request of Wisconsin’s Governor to stay away, President Trump visited Kenosha yesterday, touring the riot-damaged city and meeting with the local police. He did not meet with the family of Jacob Blake, whose shooting in the back by a cop sparked the unrest rocking Kenosha.

  Trump has said the unrest in Kenosha and Portland, Oregon is what will happen if Joe Biden becomes President, even though it’s already happening under President Trump.

  Zak Cheney-Rice writes in New York magazine that; “President Trump’s fingerprints are all over the wave of deadly escalation that has gripped cities already coping with unrest. From Portland to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the White House has come to a cynical conclusion: violence in the streets is good for Trump’s reelection odds, allowing him to cast Democrat-governed cities as incubators of chaos and harbingers of what a Biden victory would bring.” 

  Cheney-Rice goes on to say, “One thing is clear: the president believes it is in his interest not to quell the unrest, but to blame it on Democratic officials and Joe Biden, who does not hold elected office, while encouraging his supporters to self-deputize in order to fight them.”

Dark Shadows: Trump yesterday repeated a story he first told Monday to Fox News Laura Ingraham. Before departing to Kenosha Trump said; “A person was on a plane, said that there were about six people like that person, more or less, and what happened is the entire plane filled up with the looters, the rioters, the anarchists, people that were obviously looking for trouble and the person felt very uncomfortable on the plane.” 

  On  Monday Trump told Ingraham that people in “dark shadows” are behind Joe Biden’s campaign and unidentified thugs travelled to disrupt the mostly virtual Republican National Convention.

LI: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former Obama officials?

DT: People that you’ve never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows. People that — 

LI: What does that mean? That sounds like conspiracy theory. Dark shadow, what is that?

DT: No. People that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets. We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear and this and that. They’re on a plane.

LI: Where — where was this?

DT: I’ll tell you sometime, but it’s under investigation right now, but they came from a certain city, and this person was coming to the Republican National Convention, and there were like seven people on the plane like this person, and then a lot of people were on the plane to do big damage. 

  Trump’s tale is similar to a viral Facebook post from June 1 that claimed, “At least a dozen males got off the plane in Boise from Seattle, dressed head to toe in black,” and “Be ready for attacks downtown and residential areas.”

 It never happened.

Viral News: The Trump administration announced an order on Tuesday to bar evictions for most renters for the rest of the year as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.

  So far the US I just shy of 6.1 million cases and 184,697 people have died, 1,095 of them in the past 24 hours.

Get in Line: Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, 74, yesterday beat back a primary challenge by Rep. Joe Kennedy, the 39-year-old grandson of Robert F. Kennedy who had been favored to win when he entered the race a year ago.  Markey actually has a strong base with young progressives and educated suburban voters,

 The Kennedy family name just doesn’t hold the magic anymore. It’s the first time a Kennedy has lost a Massachusetts election. But Kennedy actually had the stones to call for Markey to concede even while trailing by 10 points during the evening. 

March in Review: The Military Times reports that, despite President Trump’s claims that the troops aren’t behind him as much as they used to be. In the paper’s latest 49.9 percent had an unfavorable view of the President. Beyond that, 42 percent said they “strongly” disapprove of Trump’s performance in office.

  Among active-duty service members surveyed, 41 percent said they would vote for Biden. Only 37 percent said they plan to vote to re-elect Trump.

The Bulletin Board: The Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency is repeating its 2016 effort to influence the US election, Facebook says. — The University of South Carolina suspended 15 students and took disciplinary action against six Greek houses for violating the rules on pandemic safety. Basically, they were partying like college students. — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a black man Monday afternoon, sparking a protest and an investigation by homicide detectives. Two deputies tried to stop the man as he was riding his bicycle and the encounter turned violent, the LA County Sheriff’s Department says.

He/She/Her/Him: A growing trend among the politically and sexual identity correct is for someone to include with their email address their favored pronoun references. EG: Mike Smith (He/Him); Mike Smith; (She/Her); Mike Smith (Them/They) This news brought to you by Brian Rooney.

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