Heilemann: Trump's Rhetoric About Dem Rhetoric That Stirs Violence Against Him Is 'Pretty Dangerous'

Posted • October 7, 2024: Everybody is well aware that the violent rhetoric and vitriol about Donald Trump comes from the Left and the Democrats go there often, from "worse than Hitler" to Rep. Dan Goldman saying the Republican nominee needs to be "eliminated." Just days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Biden said this: 5 days before Donald Trump was shot at, Biden told Democrats to "put Trump in a bullseye." https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSZowj0XkAEW9SC?format=jpg&name=900x900 -- Fast forward about three months. MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel earlier today turned to what has become a familiar tactic from the Left: Saying Trump's putting Democrats in danger for saying the kind of rhetoric above can inspire unhinged people to take shots at him. It's just "un-American," according to Joe Scarborough:

Scarborough on the Trumps: “Un-American. This is an increasingly desperate family who's preparing for civil war." At the weekend rally in Butler, the Trumps had the temerity to talk about inflammatory Democrat rhetoric leading to the assass*nation attempts — and according to Scarborough — that’s inciting violence. For some reason, Scarborough did not express concern over the actual violence of the two assass*nation attempts, nor did he label those attempts as “un-American." -- MSNBC’s John Heilemann on Trump discussing the role of hyperbolic progresssive rhetoric in the assassination attempts against him: “It’s pretty dangerous … I struggle for the right superlatives.” - “People right now in the Republican Party are not merely campaigning on division and hatred, but are, in fact, actively rooting for & inciting a split, you know, a division in the country.” (…)

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