Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that the first night of the Democratic National Convention made no mention of the riots that spread across the country this summer, making clear, he said, that Democrats “align themselves with antifa.”
“Ask African Americans how much the Democrats have cared about ’em in 50 years, how much it’s meant to their lives improving. Answer is zip, zero, nada,” the host said during his radio broadcast.
“But if you want to give a speech and you want to talk about empathy, how in the world do you not mention the victims of the riots and the violent criminals?” he said, referencing former first lady Michelle Obama’s address during the convention. “How in the world, if you’re gonna talk about empathy and how you’ve got more empathy than the Republicans, how in the world do you not talk about what is happening to law-abiding people in your own cities and states, like Seattle and like Portland?”
Limbaugh then said that no one mentioned the violence, including the former first lady.
“So, by extension, we have to think they don’t care about what is happening to the law-abiding in Portland or Seattle,” he said. “Hint, hint — they don’t.”
“Because they have made it clear that they align themselves with antifa,” Limbaugh argued. “They align themselves with Black Lives Matter. They align themselves with the lawbreakers. They align themselves with the looters and the rioters and the people who are destroying private property and businesses.”
Protests and riots have continued in certain cities, such as Portland, following the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day.
This past weekend, a man identified as Adam Haner was filmed being beaten on the streets of Portland after he reportedly helped a transgender woman who had been mugged.
A mob of people, who were reportedly activists with Black Lives Matter and antifa, were seen surrounding Haner and beating him until he was unconscious.
Portland police have launched a manhunt for one of the suspected attackers.
