INTERVIEW: Rep. Brandon Gill talks LA riots, Dallas demonstrations as so-called protesters get ready for weekend of chaos
THE LOWDOWN:
In an unsurprising move in the first year of the second Trump administration, leftist activists turned back to their 2020 playbook of burning down cities and destroying property to try and scare people into supporting their radical causes.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R., Texas) caught up with the Washington Reporter to give his thoughts on the situation in his Texas backyard.
“The primary issue of the 2024 elections was border security and mass deportations,” Gill told the Reporter. “It’s something [Trump] talked about extensively. It’s something every Republican talked about and all he’s doing is following through on the promises that he made to voters.”
The Texas Republican also said does not believe the demonstrations and riots will have an impact on the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
In an unsurprising move in the first year of the second Trump administration, leftist activists turned back to their 2020 playbook of burning down cities and destroying property to try and scare people into supporting their radical causes.
This time, that cause is allowing illegal immigration. Rioters and demonstrators have used President Donald Trump’s deportations of thousands of illegal immigrants as a springboard to push their agendas.
Amid the media’s scramble to gaslight the American public into thinking the violent demonstrations that have seen fireworks thrown, cars burned, and masks handed out are “mostly peaceful” protests, Rep. Brandon Gill (R., Texas) caught up with the Washington Reporter about the situation.
Gill’s native Dallas saw fiery demonstrations take place downtown in tandem with the Los Angeles riots and it is gearing up, like many major cities in America, to endure the “No Kings” protests — which carry several leftist and socialist backers. The backers of these protests including Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) campaign and eight Indivisible chapters, including the national chapter. A public Google doc lists plans for the protests, which include a song and chant sheet and an interfaith litany.
Gill told the Reporter that he fully supports President Trump’s deportation efforts and noted that the actions are “something he was elected to do.”
“The primary issue of the 2024 elections was border security and mass deportations,” Gill told the Reporter. “It’s something he talked about extensively. It’s something every Republican talked about and all he’s doing is following through on the promises that he made to voters.”
Gill said America is “a sovereign country” and that we “ought to be able to determine who comes into our country and who is allowed to stay.”
In terms of his general thoughts on President Trump’s response to the riots in California, Gill pointed out that “what we’ve seen in California is total lawlessness and a disgraceful, un-American display of hatred for not only the president, but for the rule of law.”
“You’ve had Democrats… all over the place supporting the rioters,” Gill said. “You’ve got people going in, apparently, who believe that breaking into an Apple store and looting small businesses constitutes peaceful protests and is, in some weird way, something that would lead to justice.”
“I think they’ve been disgusting,” Gill added.
When it comes to the “No Kings” demonstrations planned for this weekend, Gill said that President Trump “is doing what he was elected to do, which is restore American sovereignty and the rule of law.”
The Texas Republican also said does not believe the demonstrations and riots will have an impact on the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
“What these people are protesting is, essentially, they’re arguing in favor of chaos and lawlessness,” Gill said. “All we’re saying is that…we have a border. It is now and ought to be enforced, and the people who broke our laws coming into the country need to go.”
“And that’s something that, actually, a majority of Americans agree with,” Gill added.
As for the effect on the midterm elections, Gill said that “whenever Democrats don’t get their way, they riot, they loot, [and] they act like unhinged lunatics.” Gill added that “the optics of this for Democrats are atrocious, and they know it, too.”
“They’re so dug in ideologically on open borders and importing millions of people who they think are going to be future Democrat voters that they will not back away from this,” he said. “This is a winning issue for Republicans. Most Americans don’t want to see their communities fundamentally transformed by lawless chaos, and that’s what’s happening right now.”
As for the riots’ effect on the reconciliation bill, Gill said “these riots just provide more reason why we should tax remittances to Mexico and other foreign countries even higher.”
“If anything, I look at these rioters and I say we ought to be giving more money to border security and for deportation,” Gill said. “I don’t want these people in our country.”
“They have no right to be here. They have no claim on our resources,” he continued. “They came here illegally and they need to go, and that’s all there is to it.”
Gill’s comments come as eyes are on California as the U.S. military is deployed to quell the riots and demonstrations flying Mexican and Palestinian flags while spitting on and burning Old Glory.
