{"id":16714,"date":"2020-06-11T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2020-06-11T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:35:32","slug":"clear-out-the-terrorist-controlled-seattle-autonomous-zone-or-i-will-president-trump-to-governor-inslee-and-mayor-durkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=16714","title":{"rendered":"Clear out the terrorist-controlled Seattle Autonomous Zone or I will &#8212; President Trump to Governor Inslee  and Mayor Durkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018If you don\u2019t do it, I will!\u2019 Trump threatens Seattle &amp; WA govt with INTERVENTION if they don\u2019t clear protester-occupied \u2018Zone\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16718\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16718\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16718\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5ee27cf585f540376b54bd09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5ee27cf585f540376b54bd09.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5ee27cf585f540376b54bd09-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Reuters \/ Lindsey Wasson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has delivered an ultimatum to Washington officials: clear out the Seattle Autonomous Zone or he\u2019ll do it himself (presumably via the National Guard). The six-block area was taken by protesters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Trump threatened to send in the troops on Thursday on Twitter, ordering state governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to \u201c<em>take back your city NOW<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>MOVE FAST<\/em>\u201d doing it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Radical Left Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayInslee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JayInslee<\/a> and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don\u2019t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1271142274416562176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY<\/em>,\u201d the president tweeted, exasperated over Inslee\u2019s claim to know \u201c<em>nothing<\/em>\u201d about the protesters occupying the six-block area of downtown Seattle that includes the abandoned East Police Precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Inslee hit back against the \u201c<em>threats of military violence against Washingtonians<\/em>,\u201d slamming the president\u2019s \u201c<em>fragility<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>insecurity<\/em>\u201d in a series of tweets in which he defended the protesters on Capitol Hill as \u201c<em>largely peaceful.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump administration knows what Washington needs right now &#8211; the resources to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>If the president wants to show leadership, and that he cares about the people in this state, he should send us the PPE we\u2019ve needed for months.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovInslee\/status\/1271131450432090114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The governor wasn\u2019t too proud to put his hand out, however. Inslee reminded Trump his state had needed \u201c<em>resources to fight the Covid-19 pandemic<\/em>\u201d for months, hinting that if he really wanted to \u201c<em>show leadership<\/em>,\u201d he\u2019d send along some PPE. After all, the \u201c<em>unpermitted<\/em>\u201d demonstrators occupying the CHAZ might get sick being outdoors and not social-distanced like that.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s tweets echoed similar messages posted late Wednesday night and deleted because Inslee had mocked a typo in one of them. After Trump declared \u201c<em>These ugly Anarchists must be stooped [sic] IMMEDIATELY<\/em>,\u201d Inslee snarked, \u201c<em>stoop tweeting<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also got in a few digs against the \u201c<em>Radical Left Democrats<\/em>\u201d running Seattle and repeatedly proclaimed his support for \u201c<em>LAW &amp; ORDER!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Seattle police boarded up their precinct and left voluntarily on Sunday, Assistant Police Chief Deanna Nollette declared on Wednesday that the force was looking for a way to get back in. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) protesters have listed defunding the police department as one of their demands, though it\u2019s not clear how many different groups are camped out in the Zone, who (if anyone) is leading the pack, or whether they are all on board with the wish list posted online earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>City spokeswoman Lori Patrick denied any Seattle officials had interacted with \u201c<em>armed Antifa militants<\/em>,\u201d though the Zone has at least one self-styled \u201c<em>warlord<\/em>\u201d and some inside are armed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/491570-seattle-antifa-evict-anarchists-troops\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/491570-seattle-antifa-evict-anarchists-troops\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If you don\u2019t do it, I will!\u2019 Trump threatens Seattle &amp; WA govt with INTERVENTION if they don\u2019t clear protester-occupied \u2018Zone\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}