Decoding the viral video on coronavirus protests

A video went viral when Trump supporters began verbally attacking a local TV reporter at a coronavirus reopening protest in Long Island, New York. This video is being used by both sides — President Trump has retweeted the video at least three times — to argue their perspective on the shutdown. Chris Cillizza explains why this video is a Rorschach test of America right now.

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    1. CNN is FAKE NEWS !!!

      …. and allegedly GOVERNOR CUOMO and PRESIDENT TRUMP were JESUIT TRAINED; go read the JESUIT OATH !!

      https://youtu.be/-f1X1hI-_pg

      Gov CUOMO allows a newborn to be legally murderered; by allowing a mother UP TO THE DAY OF DELIVERY to have her baby killed.

      All the Governor’s and White House is apart of the whole PLANNEDDEMIC !!

      By January they plan to bring in the MILITARY and go door to door to try to VACCINATE you allegedly ?!? True or not; let’s see ?!?! This is much BIGGER than any one person; including ANY GOVERNOR or President Trump.

      As far as Trump and Biden; they are just two wings on the *SAME*  bird..and I am *NOT* voting !!

      Gov CUOMO and Mayor de Blasio, as all politicans and mainstream media are – nothing more than *LIARS* over this *plannedDemic* !

      *MAINSTREAM MEDIA* is PROPAGANDA – brainwashing for those without any common sense:

      Watch “Wait! What Did Fauci Say

      https://youtu.be/1qa6dAO-Hyw

      https://youtu.be/ZaSQNgdkjb0

      https://youtu.be/mZ_akkTDylo

      https://youtu.be/2DDXG-dHugc

      *WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD DISORDER* !!!

      Good source of information:

      James; Investigator Journalist at
      *THE CORBETT REPORT* —

      https://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport

      https://youtu.be/0cXTqRlGnwo

      JUDGMENT DAY is coming !!

      https://youtu.be/zuSDeJjo5Ec

      Revelation 21:8 (KJV)

      “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

      https://youtu.be/AfAped6OLDY

    2. That’s like cutting off your arm and sitting there as you bleed out saying “I hope everything’s going get better soon”.

    1. LIVE: President Trump Cabinet Meeting | 4pm Eastern your CNN no showing it ask yourself why. They keep you in darkness brainwashed like 1933 Germany

    2. @JBCJBC not showing it cause it’s more BS Conald talking. Last i heard he said he takes hydroxychloroquine? 😅 trump supporters truly are the dumbest of dumb

    1. @Fletcher Christian imagine a governor sending Covid19 patients to nursing homes! And then imagine that same governor being praised by the media for his leadership!

    2. @Fletcher Christian

      The numbers in the U.S. are intentionally inflated by the leftist media to cause panic leading into the presidential election.
      It’s not a Global Pandemic – it’s a Globalist Dempanic.

    3. @Jacob Calham8k deaths in Germany. Less than 300 deaths in S. Korea vs 91k deaths in USA. That isn’t TDS. That is proof that Trump is a 100% moron. TDS = Trump Duped Supporter. No one praised Xi more than Trump! Don’t worry we are well on the way to creating our own virus in our super deregulated hog farms and chicken factories. Bottom line you support Trump because he made it ok in your mind to hate on immigrants and minorities. Look who supports him-David Duke and Richard Spencer. BTW holding 9 mass rallies is not a pandemic plan it is incompetent stupidity. TDS that.

    1. You can inplaces like new york where testing sites have the capacity to test 15,000 and theyre only testing about 5,000. That is called over testing 🙂

    1. @THE ANGRY QUAD OK. You charge the machine gun. I’ll call in air support. They can fly your body away too.

    1. LIVE: President Trump Cabinet Meeting | 4pm Eastern your CNN no showing it ask yourself why. They keep you in darkness brainwashed like 1933 Germany

    2. @JBCJBC “….you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” – Donald Trump

  1. There was like 20 people there. Even the uneducated are starting to see how stupid Trump is.

    1. ​@Troll Destroyer cnn has id…. like you do not remember last 4 years bs they were selling you .RUSSIANS UKRAINE AVANATTI IMPEACHMENT CNN settled a lawsuit with Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, paying out $275 million. ETC. WAKE UP

    2. Deep inside even Trump know what he’s doing. things which make me upset is people turning blind eye

    3. @darkboi123 3 haha like the chinese trade war didn’t happen like ww3 almost didn’t happen and ukraine call didn’t happen
      Yeah

    1. @Born In Shithole Country – OH … in case you didn’t know … his daddy owned the building that the “bone heel doctor” worked in. Gee .. what a coincidence. Wow … how does that foot taste?

    2. @Mrs.Puff_ – Drain the swamp … that’s funny. First act tRump did was to get rid of the W.H. visitors log. It was used to monitor lobbyists visiting. Result? tRump has hired more lobbyists than any president in history. Drain the swamp … indeed. You’re funny.

  2. Thanks Chris. You’re like a theassaurous of truth. It’s not the words, it’s the focus on obvious ignorence, how the fu__ doesn’t everybody SEE the 239 pound elephant in the room?!

  3. “If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities.”
    — Voltaire

    These are essentially the type of people that Voltaire was referring to. If you think these people aren’t willing to commit atrocities as result of the constant lies, absurdities, and misinformation that they’ve been fed by Trump and fox, then you are sadly mistaken.

    1. @whataqtify …As it turns out Obama, Hillary, and Podesta was the ones selling our uranium to the Russians
      and then illegally spied on the incoming president trump. Thats where Comey, strock, page,
      brennan, and clapper come into the picture. That is why the investigation starts June 4, 2020

    2. @whataqtify The heart disease I would blame that on Medical Industry and your family doctor
      for recommending margarine instead of butter for cooking back in the 70’s

    3. @Walter White Are you sure? I mean the concept of Donald Trump dressed as Santa, breaking into homes with his gun that shoots darts filled with crushed up cyanide seems far more realistic to me.

    4. @horsterer77 If Trump gave the go ahead for his cult members to beat up CNN reporters there would have been blood shed on that sidewalk that day, these people are just waiting for the go ahead from their orange overlord to take out the “fake media” and “Libtards” don’t for one minute think they are just all bark and no bite.

  4. This is exactly how the police react everyday, if you try to film them doing, ( or not doing ) their job. America is full of Morons

  5. Say it three times and they believe it.
    Say it three times and they believe it.
    Say it three times and they believe it.

    See! Now have Alexa Play Liar by three dog night!

  6. As a person who can’t stand either the Right or the Left, I see this happening on both sides.

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