Former aide: Trump ‘blood bath’ remark follows ‘proven track record’ of ‘unhinged comments’

Sarah Matthews, a former staffer to former President Trump, said Trump’s recent warning that the United States would be “bathed in blood” if he didn’t win in November was a “proven track record” of “uninhibited comment”. ” he said.

“[I]You can’t trace these kinds of rambling comments from him, and his proven track record of increasingly violent and apocalyptic rhetoric. ” Matthews Said He spoke Monday in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

“I think it’s a warning to his supporters that he says things like ‘death and destruction awaits’ if he is indicted on these criminal charges,” she told host Jen Psaki. told House Press Secretary.

Matthews, who resigned on January 6, 2021 in the aftermath of the Capitol attack, suggested the former president’s words could be seen as “marching orders” to his supporters.

“Between the 2020 election and January 6th, we saw things like this happening, where he told people to come to the Capitol and on this day we need to save the country. I said it was going to be one tough day,” Matthews said. About her former boss.

“So he’s putting this kind of message out there and expecting them to act on it,” she added.

President Trump’s remarks were made Saturday during a campaign rally in support of Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. During the event, the former president warned China not to try to open a factory in Mexico to sell cars to the United States.

“No, we’re going to impose a 100 percent tariff on every car that crosses the border. If I’m elected, you won’t be able to sell those cars,” Trump added. If I am not elected, it will be a bloodbath for this country. ”

“That would be the bare minimum,” he continued. “But they’re not trying to sell cars; they’re building big factories.”

The remark prompted a backlash from figures such as President Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who launched campaign ads centered around the remark.

“What does that mean? Is he going to bathe in blood?” Pelosi said on CNN. “There’s something wrong here.”

“As much as I respect the American people and their goodness, how much more do Americans need to see from him to understand that this is not the essence of our country?” she added.

The former president and his allies pushed back against the pursuit, saying they were talking about the auto industry.

“Even though the fake news media and their Democratic partners in destroying our country knew perfectly well that I was simply referring to imports authorized by crooked Joe Biden. He pretended to be shocked that I used the word bloody. The auto industry,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.