Trump said Liberate Democratic States, Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia under Lockdown

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U.S President Donald Trump has doubled down on his tweets calling for supporters to liberate 3 Democrat-led states under lockdown measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus. He stipulated a series of false claims during an aggressive press conference. Trump also made his justification for those tweets, which were branded by critics as a dangerous attempt at stirring rebellion. He tweeted on Friday and wrote, “LIBERATE MINNESOTA and LIBERATE MICHIGAN”. He also wrote, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege”! Tweets from President came in spite of the advice of public health experts that stay-at-home orders and social distancing are necessary to slow the spread of the virus.

It is noteworthy that the widespread coronavirus has already killed more than 37,000 and at least 750,836 confirmed cases recorded in the United States. Trump’s tweets followed a segment on Fox News showing a protest against the lockdown outside the Minnesota governor’s office. A number of conservative protesters stormed the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, earlier this week. Most of them wearing pro-Trump gear and demanded to uplift the Stay-at-Home order. Trump also said, “I think some things are too tough, and if you look at some of the states you just mentioned, it’s too tough. Not only relative to this, but what they’ve done in Virginia with respect to the Second Amendment is just a horrible thing. They did a horrible thing, the governor”.

Trump also escalated his attack on Virginia Democrats. He falsely suggested that they were planning to strip Virginians of their second amendment rights entirely. President also said, “What they have done to some people is very unfair. In Virginia, I’m going above and beyond what we are talking about with this horrible plague. They want to take their guns away. They want to take their guns away. That’s the second amendment. That’s Virginia. You have a governor who really I guess he should be under siege. He seems not to be. If he were a Republican, he would be under siege, but he seems to have escaped something that was pretty bad”. Trump also affirmed and said, “We may be opening but we’re putting safety first”.