Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Newsmax that vocal Democrats in the U.S. are trying their best to clean up the image of destruction during the riots in Los Angeles and paint it as “peaceful arson.”
Mast told “The Chris Salcedo Show” on Tuesday that Democrats think Americans will believe what they’re told over what they see. “And yet again, we find ourselves in a situation where, of course, the left wants to say, Don’t believe what you see with your own eyes. Just believe what we tell you. Don’t believe that you see something here. It’s peaceful arson that you’re witnessing right here.”
He said Americans have heard the same storyline before. “It’s not disruptful and violent arson. It’s the peaceful kind of arson. Don’t believe what you see,” he described. And added, “Just believe what we tell you and then do what we tell you as well.”
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