Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, is demanding that the state’s Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon offer a public explanation as to why he told the National Guard which he had previously mobilized to stand down in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday night as the city burned in riots.
On Fox News on Tuesday morning, Kinder told anchor Martha MacCallum that Nixon kept the National Guard away as Ferguson burned—and questioned whether he did so in coordination with top officials from President Barack Obama’s administration. At a Tuesday press conference in response to a question from Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket, Nixon said that Kinder’s questions were “false and absurd” and that “politics has nothing to do with what anyone up here is doing.”
Kinder, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News early on Tuesday evening after the Nixon presser, said that Nixon owes the people of Missouri and specifically Ferguson an explanation as to why he held back the National Guard from stopping the looting, rioting, and burning of businesses and terrorizing of people.
“All I did was ask the question, and he says it’s false. Well, okay, then explain yourself, governor,” Kinder said. “Explain why you gave the order that I supported a week ago to mobilize the guard, to declare a state of emergency, and then at the critical moment you’re nowhere to be found by the mayor of Ferguson who’s desperately calling me in the wee hours of this morning, desperately calling the Speaker of the Missouri House and the floor leader of the Missouri House, Tim Jones and John Diehl, and asking for somebody in state government to stand up and give him some help. All executive power and all command of the Missouri National Guard rests with the Missouri chief executive so none of us could do anything as Ferguson burned. So this mayor made this desperate call as he was watching from his back porch as his city burned.”
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The same thing happened in Benghazi.
ReplyDeleteObama is behind this just like he told the IRS to target conservative and tea partiers.
ReplyDeleteAll part of Obamas agenda to get the races to fight amongst themselves. If he can get Americans fighting Americans it makes it easy for the Muslims to take over. Straight from the Nazi play book.
ReplyDeleteSimple. The Guard would have been acting against minorities. There might have been legal consequences for the rioters and arsonists. Can't have that.
ReplyDeleteThis governor is a democrat so we should expect much. All democrats are is slaves to others. Obama admin surely said no to the Guard and this governor being the good all obeying slave to the party obeyed. Democrats don't have the qualities it takes to be a leader.
ReplyDeleteOh right like putting any democrat under oath means anything. It's ingrained in democrats from birth to lie and any oath or anything else isn't going change that. Lying is the ONLY thing democrats are proficient at.
ReplyDelete1012 actually "NO". Maybe you should recheck the evidence from the countless probes, including the conclusions from the recent House probe.
ReplyDeleteFunny, it's "Obama who wants a race wa"r when all we've heard for 6 yrs is "take back our country", "obama is illegal", and threats of armed revolution from...you guessed it, YOU GUYS!
If anyone running in 2016 even remotely resembles Obama DO NOT vote for him.
ReplyDeleteThe President Knows that once his people the "MUSLIMS" take over the Country they will FIX all of this crap once and for all
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