Midway through a rally in downtown Salt Lake City, the few hundred in attendance belted out a half-ironic chant, inspired by the rhetoric of the president they stood in the cold to protest:
“No, no, no,” he said through a small speaker. “We don’t lock people up until they’re convicted. We don’t do that. We aren’t locking anyone up. All we want is a fair investigation.”
The correction underscored why Schultz and the other organizers of the bipartisan group Salt Lake Indivisible had called the Thursday afternoon protest. Group members and many who showed up wanted to send a message to President Donald Trump in the wake of his firing of ex-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the appointment of Matthew Whitaker, a critic of the FBI probe into possible collusion between the president’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, as the acting attorney general.