“And then they have cans of soup. Soup. And they throw the cans of soup. That’s better than a brick because you can’t throw a brick; it’s too heavy. But a can of soup, you can really put some power into that, right?”
The president argued that when these soup-carrying “anarchists” were arrested by law enforcement, they would claim the soup was intended to feed their family.
“And then when they get caught, they say, ‘No, this is soup for my family.’ They’re so innocent. ... It’s incredible. And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police. And if it hits you, that’s worse than a brick because it’s got force. It’s the perfect size. It’s, like, made perfect.”
"Despite his words on the deadliness of soup, when asked by CNN during the press conference about pro-Trump supporters in Portland firing paintball guns during the weekend, the president said paint was a “defensive mechanism.”
“Paint is not bullets,” Trump told reporter Kaitlan Collins. The president then claimed that CNN supporters with guns had caused the fatal shooting of Aaron J. Danielson, who had ties with the far-right group Patriot Prayer and died in a series of scuffles between pro-Trump demonstrators and counterprotesters on Saturday."
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