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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that the leftist mob that surrounded him on his way out of the White House after President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech last week, along with other leftist violence in Democrat-controlled cities, could be a game-changer in this election.

President Donald Trump is reviewing options to defund some of America’s most chaotic cities as Democrat leaders mull defunding the police.

Authorities in Seattle have recovered a variety of weapons, from a machete to an unexploded mortar, during the cleanup of Cal Anderson Park, the area previously occupied by anarchists and Antifa.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Breitbart News exclusively this weekend that his committee’s chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been running a thus-far-unreported investigation into the Trump administration’s response to violence in American cities.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, used social media Thursday to call out Democrats for not condemning the looting and violence that has shaken Democrat-run cities across America.

During MSNBC’s coverage of the 2020 Republican National Convention on Wednesday, host Rachel Maddow brought on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) “to essentially run a reality check” on South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) statements on crime in cities like Seattle so that the network feels “responsible about our broadcast.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Thursday during the Democratic National Convention “after party” urged Democrats to unify and to “make sure” President Donald Trump “doesn’t sleep.”

A local Seattle brewer added the slogan “All Cops are Bastards” to his beer cans. At the bottom of the can, you will find a stamp that reads “ACAB means all cops.”

With a number of Democrat-run cities already ravaged by “unrest in the streets,” Squad Member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) got on national television and called for more — and MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross agreed with her.

Black Lives Matter activists stormed a Seattle neighborhood this week, harassing residents and demanding that they “get the f*** out.”

Seattle police officer Sergio Garcia is “devastated” by Carmen Best’s decision to retire as police chief and believes the Seattle City Council, which voted in favor of measures effectively defunding police, is simply reacting with “no plan.”

Tuesday, during a press conference outgoing, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said she is resigning due to a lack of respect for officers in the wake of a city council vote enacting significant budget cuts to the city’s police department.

On Monday, Seattle’s KOMO reported that Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best has announced that she will retire from the Seattle Police Department, effective September 2. In an email to the Seattle Police Department obtained by KOMO, Best said, “This was

The Seattle City Council approved proposals Monday that would reduce the police department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition — an action supported by protesters who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly opposed by the mayor and police chief.

Hundreds of people gathered at Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park on Sunday for a “Let Us Worship” rally led by worship leader Sean Feucht.

Riots and looting broke out in Seattle on Sunday evening ahead of an expected city council vote to defund the police.

Hundreds of protesters supporting the Seattle Police Department gathered at midday Sunday in front of Seattle’s City Hall to show their support for law enforcement on the day before the City Council will vote whether to “defund the police.”

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best reacted to the Seattle City Council’s approval of an amendment aimed at further defunding the police by slashing the pay of Best and 12 members of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) command staff, questioning why the city would not want to fairly compensate the “best of the best.”

The New York Times published a lengthy report Friday on the degree to which armed Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists terrorized local businesses inside the “autonomous” zone in June.

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed first-degree murder charges Wednesday against a man who allegedly shot and killed a teenager inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.

The Seattle City Council is making good on its promise to dismantle the Seattle Police Department (SPD), moving to reduce personnel and to completely eliminate the Navigation Team, which deals with homeless encampments across the city.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said at a Senate hearing that without federal help, rioters would have destroyed the federal courthouse in Portland.

A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges that would-be protesters are prevented from demonstrating by the cost of protecting themselves from police.

Left-wing protesters were chased off by armed residents in the Seattle suburbs … and it was glorious.

The Seattle City Council, which previously signaled strong support for halving police funding, appears to be at a crossroads, with some members contending the measure would be impossible to implement this year.

A large group of “aggressive” protesters swarmed Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best’s Snohomish County home over the weekend, the police chief confirmed in an August 2 letter addressed to members of the Seattle City Council, detailing the incident.

Jenny Durkan, Democrat Mayor of Seattle, said sending federal police to cities to quell the violence “looks like a dry run for martial law.”

The Seattle City Council, which has been mulling a proposal to defund the Seattle Police Department, drafted a resolution which would both defund the police and create a “civilian led department of community safety & violence prevention.”

Many Seattle residents have expressed disapproval of the Seattle City Council’s measure to slash police department funding by half, with one telling the council Wednesday the proposal is a “radical experiment” that will only “hurt the vulnerable.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Seattle Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan stated that the proposed 50% defunding of the city’s police department “will make CHAZ/CHOP, the experience that it was, look like child’s play,” and

Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) announced that federal forces have left Seattle and celebrated the news Tuesday while accusing President Donald Trump of deliberately increasing violence in the city.

More than 100 police agencies pulled out of agreements Tuesday to provide additional protection to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, next month over a local ban on the use of tear gas to disperse crowds.

Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best advised her city’s business owners and residents that local police will not “risk their personal safety to protect property” after a ban issued by the city council of “less lethal tools” — such as pepper spray — for the purposes dispersing crowds to control rioters.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) stated that President Trump’s actions “were responsible for what happened this weekend” in Seattle and “we are seeing the dry run for martial law.” Durkan also stated that the

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) told CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time on Friday that President Trump was “leveraging his power … for his own purposes,” contending that federal agents have “escalated” violence in cities such as Portland “night after night after night” and proclaiming that the very “fabric of America is being shredded before our eyes.”

Fifty-nine officers have suffered a range of injuries as a result of Saturday’s violent riot in Seattle, according to the Seattle Police Department (SPD) Blotter.