The Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of protesters nationwide spent Thursday evening decrying President Trump’s removal of Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general, a move they fear threatens the independence of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.And, just as I posted yesterday, there was a protest in downtown Pittsburgh as well.
Those gathered in cities and towns from Boston to Houston to Seattle said Trump “crossed a red line” when he picked Matthew G. Whitaker as acting attorney general after asking and receiving Sessions’s resignation on Wednesday. Whitaker, a political loyalist, had criticized the special counsel’s probe into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Post-Gazette:
Hundreds protested outside the City-County Building in Pittsburgh during rush hour Thursday night in support of special prosecutor Robert Mueller, chanting and waving signs to dissuade President Donald Trump from interfering with the Russia investigation.I was there.
The crowd filled the building’s front steps and stretched for nearly a block in both directions along Grant Street. Demonstrators waved American flags at passing motorists, some of whom shouted or honked their horns in support.
“No one is above the law, not the president, not the smallest child,“ said Tracy Baton, a social worker from Park Place who organized the event. “In a constitutional democracy, everyone operates under the rule of law.”
This is what the crowd looked like:Pittsburgh #ProtectMueller pic.twitter.com/lsBbmPE9Wc— David DeAngelo (@numbah_6) November 8, 2018
[Note: I took a picture of a woman who had a GREAT t-shirt on. I told her the name of this blog - she'd never heard of it - and in my haste I don't think I got her consent to post her picture online. So if you see this, drop me a line and let me know if I can post the picture!]Pittsburgh #ProtectMueller pic.twitter.com/6ysR2cFDdm
— David DeAngelo (@numbah_6) November 8, 2018
Beautiful
ReplyDeleteTrump Is Not Above The Law Rally (Counterprotest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sSFg7XF_yA&list=WL&index=2&t=0s
My shirt (and granny hat) were pretty popular with that crowd. You’re welcome to use the picture you took.
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