Republican-led attempts to discredit Tim Walz’s handling of protests following the police murder of George Floyd have been firmly undermined after old audio confirmed Donald Trump praised Minnesota’s governor amid the social justice demonstrations.
A pro-Kamala Harris social media account unearthed the old audio and shared it on Wednesday as Republicans launched a disingenuous attack on Walz by claiming in part that he “let rioters burn Minneapolis.”
However, a 2020 phone call between Trump — who was president at the time — and Walz shows that Trump completely co-signed the way that Minnesota’s governor dealt with the protests.
“I totally agreed with the way he handled it the last couple of days,” Trump can be heard saying on the phone call about Walz calling in the National Guard. “I asked him to do that.”
Trump later says on …