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Republican activist Steve Clodfelter accused Senator Tammy Duckworth and other politicians of not really wanting to gain control of looters and rioters in the aftermath of nationwide protests even though President Trump offered to send military troops.

“We made our law enforcement powerless,” said Clodfelter who also advocates for Illinois Fathers for Equality against family court parental alienation.

In a Twitter video, Sen. Duckworth said of Pres. Trump, “I am sickened to the core by this man.”

Clodfelter responded, “Pres. Trump is within reason but the politicians aren’t even trying.”

Sen. Duckworth’s June 3, 2020 tweet on Twitter by @SenDuckworth stated, “Our military is one of the most diverse institutions in this country. And for Donald Trump to pervert it, politicize it and use it against fellow Americans exercising their constitutional rights sickens me to the core.”

As previously reported in Chicago City Wire, the courts are closed, City Prosecutor Kim Fox allegedly isn't detaining the apprehended and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has set a curfew, which the National Guard is not enforcing.

“They need to get the looting under control but they don't really want to control it,” Clodfelter told the SE Illinois News. 

Duckworth went on in her video tweet to label Trump, “a draft-dodging wannabe tin-pot dictator.”

By countering everything, Democrat politicians will eventually destroy the economy, according to Clodfelter. 

“The looting is spreading to the suburbs,” he said. “In Decatur, three houses burnt down and several stores were broken into.”

Chicago erupted into “No Justice No Peace” protests led by BLM, an international human rights organization that demanded the arrest of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who pinned an unarmed Floyd to the ground with his knee, strangling him to death on May 25, 2020. 

Chauvin was finally arrested and charged with murder on the third day of rallies, some of which have turned into episodes of looting that President Trump and other government officials believe have been instigated by Antifa, which is a far-left, antifascist, non-unified network of activists who principally believe that more aggressive resistance to the Nazi Party in pre-World War II Germany would have kept Adolph Hitler from coming into power, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

On June 1, it was reported in Business Insider that the extreme right-wing group, Identity Evropa, called for violence and looting in white neighborhoods on Twitter under the guise of being Antifa or BLM members.

Sen. Duckworth is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate, representing the 8th Congressional District of Illinois who was first elected to the Senate in 2016, according to BallotPedia, and is an Iraq War veteran who lost both legs in combat, served in the Army reserve after recovering and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.