Trump claims Minneapolis church protesters are ‘trained professionals’ who must be ‘thrown out of the country’ | EUROtoday

President Trump has lashed out in opposition to Minneapolis protesters who interrupted a church service, claiming they had been paid professionals who must be imprisoned or deported.

“No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing,” he wrote in a publish on Truth Social, within the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Trump described the protesters as “agitators and insurrectionists” after watching footage of the incident at a Minnesota church on Sunday, January 18, through which demonstrators interrupted its providers to oppose ICE’s presence of their state.

The group stormed into Cities Church in St Paul to demand that federal immigration forces depart the state and to name for justice for Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother-of-three shot useless by agent Jonathan Ross on the streets of Minneapolis earlier this month.

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The church in query was focused by protesters as a result of one among its pastors, David Easterwood, is the appearing director of ICE’s St. Paul subject workplace.

Former CNN broadcaster turned unbiased journalist Don Lemon shared a livestream of interviews and photographs from the occasion, following the group inside as they chanted “ICE out”.

“This will not stand, they cannot pretend to be a house of God, while harboring someone who is commanding ICE agents to terrorize our communities,” protester Nekima Levy Armstrong advised Lemon.

Worshippers had been angered by the interruption, with one churchgoer saying: “These people have come into our house and they’ve interrupted our worship. Everybody’s gone home, their point has been proven worthless and so, in the end, I think they lose. I feel violated, I feel interrupted, I feel angry.”

Clips of the occasion triggered outrage amongst MAGA conservatives, with requires Lemon to be investigated by the Department of Justice and FBI, and influencer Benny Johnson claiming that the journalist’s actions amounted to “not just an obscene violation of the FACE Act – it’s likely a hate crime.”

The FACE Act of 1994, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, created authorized protections for reproductive well being clinics and locations of worship, making it against the law to make use of drive, impede, or try to intimidate anybody working in such venues.

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Rapper Nicki Minaj, who has change into a full-throated MAGA supporter in latest months, was amongst these calling for Lemon’s arrest.

Lemon fired again, saying in a press release to TMZ that Minaj “does not understand journalism”, later describing her on social media as “unhinged and homophobic”.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has introduced the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is “investigating the potential violations of the federal FACE Act by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”

In flip, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned: “President Trump will not tolerate the intimidation and harassment of Christians in their sacred places of worship.”

In his publish on Truth Social, Trump accused these concerned of being “troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country”, directing specific ire at Democratic lawmakers who’ve opposed his immigration crackdown within the state.

“The first to go should be [Minnesota Governor Tim] Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, [Representative] Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job. Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!”

The White House was approached for added clarification on his remarks.