Trump retweets video of Candace Owens attacking George Floyd
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.
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“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.
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.
Enlarge ImagePresident TrumpChip Somodevilla/Getty Images
“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.
