Tens of thousands of protesters oppose a ‘Free Speech’ rally
‘President Donald Trump has praised a crowd of up to 40,000 anti-fascist protesters who marched through the streets of Boston in protest against right-wing activists hosting a ‘free speech’ rally on Saturday.
Some of the counter-protesters clashed with police after the largely peaceful march through the city had ended when the handful of activists who attended the free speech rally left.
President Trump tweeted: ‘I want to applaud the many protesters in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!
‘Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, & we will heal, & be stronger than ever before!’
Trump quickly deleted two tweets that misspelled the word heal as ‘heel’ and an hour earlier he had tweeted to condemn ‘anti-police agitators’.’
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