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In Kenosha, Donald Trump blames 'domestic terror' for violence

The violence reached its peak the night of August 25, two days after Blake was shot, when police said the 17-year-old armed with an illegal semi-automatic rifle shot and killed two protesters in the streets

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President Trump talks to business owners as he tours an area damaged during protests following the fatal shooting of Jacob Blake by cops, in Kenosha, on Tuesday

President Trump talks to business owners as he tours an area damaged during protests following the fatal shooting of Jacob Blake by cops, in Kenosha, on Tuesday

President Donald Trump charged into the latest eruption in the nation's reckoning over racial injustice on Tuesday, blaming "domestic terror" that he said fuelled the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and declaring it was enabled by Democratic leaders.

While Trump declared the violence "anti-American," he offered no words for the underlying cause of the anger and protests " accusations of police violence against Black men " and did not mention Jacob Blake, who was badly wounded last week in Kenosha.

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