Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine said Monday that the Democratic Party has “gone crazy” in its response to the riots in Los Angeles, California.
The unrest began Friday following a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Los Angeles area, during which rioters assaulted federal immigration officers and vandalized public property, according to a Saturday statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking on The Morning Meeting, Turrentine suggested he believes the Democratic Party is effectively condoning the actions of the rioters.
“Is [President] Donald Trump potentially playing politics a little bit? Yeah, I think he probably is. I find it hard to believe the timing is not a coincidence, that he had a bad end to last week. That said — and, you know, this is politics in general — both parties engage in stuff like that,” Turrentine said.
