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Trump Exhorts Governors to Dominate Amid Violence

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - Governors have received a lecture from U.S. President
   Donald Trump, the defense secretary and the attorney general, exhorting
   them to get tough with unruly protesters on the streets of America's
   cities.

   In a conference call Monday with governors about the violent
   demonstrations across the country, the leaders of the states received a
   browbeating from the president.

   "Most of you are weak," the president told them, according to an audio
   recording of the call. "You have to dominate. If you don't dominate,
   you're wasting your time. They're going to run over you, you're going
   to look like a bunch of jerks."

   Trump is facing criticism for not adopting a traditional presidential
   role of "consoler-in-chief" since the death of African American George
   Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis prompted a national
   outpouring of agony and anger.

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