The shifting the blame ploy.

Radical Leftists have a ploy which allows them to shift the blame for their violent ways. Over the years it took various forms. I remember the thugs of Martin Luther King weakening their clothes by cutting them with razor blades so  when the police grabbed them it looked like the police tore off their clothes. Nowdays it is the Media that shifts the blame such as in the case of the looter/rioters in Missouri and Baltimore. The blame is shifted to the police for trying to protect property (people's livelihood).

The current Leftist strategy is to blame Donald Trump for the violence of the planned disruptions waged  by street thugs, Muslim students, blacks and Latinos (both legal and illegal). The "logic" of the Media is that Trump's followers are to tolerate the attacks on their peaceful exercise of their first Amendment rites and that any resistance to this is to be blamed on Trump and his rhetoric.

The Media has closed ranks over this and even FOX is lending itself to serving the cause of the Leftist troops.