By Rachel Kiley
Right-wing pastor Rick Wiles has issued a plea to President Trump to use a secret stockpile of bullets to quash the protests happening across the country in support of Black lives.
The conspiracy theorist went on TV last week and addressed Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff, asking him to speak to Trump and tell him about the two billion bullets Wiles believes were stockpiled and hidden during the Obama administration.
“You can put down the resurrection. I mean the insurrection. You can put it down,” he said. “You have the ‘bama bullets in your hand. And you don’t have to tolerate this anymore; they were purchased for the purpose of putting down an insurrection. Well, you got one.”
He finishes out by requesting the Trump administration “put the hollow point bullets to good use and get out there and put down this communist revolution so the rest of us could live our lives peacefully.”
The situation happening in Portland right now already involves what many are calling a gross overreach of power by the federal government. Agents with no identification have been sent into the city by President Trump and have been escalating the conflict and have even been caught on camera appearing to instigate violence against peaceful protestors.
A call for not only more violence against citizens of this country by their own government, but for what is amounting to federal occupation of Democrat-led cities is a horrifying suggestion coming from anyone, but especially somebody with a platform who claims to be a religious leader.
And reactions online from anyone other than other alt-right supporters have been appropriately disgusted.
The only good bit of all of this is that Wiles’ TruNews has already been permanently banned from YouTube for hate speech, so his platform is somewhat limited to those who have already bought what he’s selling. But because this is America, and freedom of speech is supposed to count for something, he can still use his own platform to spew his nonsense for the time being — even if he believes others should be shot in the street for the same.
Originally published by The Daily Dot, 07.25.2020, republished under non-indexable fair use.