Donald Trump's relationship with protestors: It's complicated

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"He's a really good young guy."  After Kyle Rittenhouse's visit to Donald Trump, here's a look back at the ex-president's ambivalent relationship to protesters ... and counter protesters.

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00:00He's a really good young guys 18 years old. There's a bad group of people very very bad very dangerous group of people

00:25Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners

00:27When somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out. He's fired

00:57And

01:11You have some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were

01:17Very fine people on both sides you had people in that group excuse me excuse me

01:22I saw the same pictures as you did you had people in that group that were there to

01:28protest the taking down of to them a very very important statue and

01:32The renaming of a park from Robert E Lee to another name

01:46A lot of those were paid protesters you saw that they're all unhappy because they haven't been paid yet

01:51I've been calling it they were paid protesters that was professionals that was

01:57Orchestrated when you look in the halls of Congress and you see screaming like that

02:01And it's like chimes one goes the next goes these are paid protesters

02:12You're allowed to protest I mean they feel that way I watched the protest and they were all six feet apart

02:17I mean it was a very

02:18Orderly group of people, but you know some some have gone too far some governors have gone too far

02:36You singled out Virginia Michigan they don't have a decline in cases yet

02:41Yet you tweeted out today that you'd like to liberate them. Well. They're gonna have soon, but they're very very

02:46Very what they've done is very powerful in terms of I think you know you could get the same

02:53Result out of doing a little bit less what they've done to some people is very unfair in

02:58Virginia I'm going above and beyond what we're talking about with this horrible plague

03:04They want to take their guns away

03:06Okay, they want to take their guns away. That's the Second Amendment. That's Virginia you have a governor governor who really I?

03:13Guess he should be under siege he seems not to be if he were Republican he'd be under siege

03:43I

04:13I

04:15Am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters

04:23But in recent days our nation has been gripped by

04:28professional anarchists

04:30violent mobs

04:31arsonists looters criminals rioters

04:34Antifa and others first we are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country

04:42We will end it now

04:44Today I have strongly recommended to every governor

04:48to deploy

04:50the National Guard in

04:52sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets

04:56Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled

05:13We love you, you're very special right from the start

05:17It was zero threat some of them went in and they're they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards

05:22You know that they had great relationships

05:24Relationships

05:39He should not have had to suffer through a trial for that he was going to be dead

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