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Trump to Visit Kenosha After Sparring with Biden Over Security

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump is traveling Tuesday to
   Kenosha, Wisconsin, where'¯protests turned violent'¯last week'¯ after
   a'¯white police officer'¯shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in
   the back as officers tried to arrest him.'¯

   Trump told reportersMondayhe is not planning to meet with Blake's
   family because they wanted a lawyer to participate.

   The president also declined to criticize the actions of Kyle
   Rittenhouse,a white teenage vigilante who is accused
   offatally'¯shooting two'¯people and wounding a third'¯during a street
   demonstrationin Kenoshatwo nightsafter Blake's shooting. Rittenhouse,
   who claimedhis goal wasto protect businesses, faces five felony
   charges, including first degree intentional homicide.

   "They very violently attacked him," Trump told reporters about
   Rittenhouse. "He probably would've been killed" had he not opened fire
   on the demonstrators.

   The governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, urged the president to skip
   Tuesday's visit to Kenosha, saying Trump's presence "will only hinder
   our healing. I'¯am concerned your presence will only delay our work to
   overcome division and move forward together."

   Evers'¯has ordered National Guard troops into Kenosha and accepted
   additional federal law enforcement assistance to quell the street
   violence since Blake was shot and left partially paralyzed.

   Trump's trip to Wisconsin comes as heandformer Vice President Joe
   Biden, his opponent in the November presidential election,trade
   accusations about security and portray life in America under the other
   candidate as unsafe.

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