Trump retweets video of black conservative Candace Owens attacking George Floyd
By Jon Levine
New York Post
June 6, 2020
President
Trump retweeted a video Friday of right-wing commentators Glenn Beck
and Candace Owens attacking the reputation of George Floyd.
“The
fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me,” Owens told Beck
in the footage. “George Floyd was not a good person.”
As
mass protests rocked the nation for yet another day, the Trump retweet
amplified the message to a worldwide audience and his 81.8 million
Twitter followers.
Beck and Owens then delved into
Floyd’s lengthy criminal record, which included time behind bars.
Floyd’s autopsy report revealed he had both fentanyl and methamphetamine
in his system at the time of his death.
“Is this
really the guy that Black America … is this the symbol of Black America
today?” Beck wondered, though adding that Floyd’s treatment by
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been wrong.
“I
don’t care WHAT George Floyd did. The officer should have never treated
him like that and killed him!” Beck wrote in a tweet sharing the video.
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