In 2017, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) and several other Republican lawmakers were practicing for a charity baseball game when a left-wing terrorist opened fire on them. Scalise, one of the injured, was shot in the lower back, leaving him with broken bones, organ damage, and severe bleeding.
Scalise following Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump I got it.“For weeks, Democratic leaders have been stoking absurd hysteria that the reelection of Donald Trump would mean the end of American democracy. Clearly, we have seen far-left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past.”
“Such inflammatory rhetoric must stop,” Scalise added.
While a small number of Democrats condemned the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, many in their party have spent years and billions of dollars trying to smear him and his tens of millions of supporters.
“This MAGA threat is a threat to the very foundation of our democratic system,” President Joe Biden said.
stress “It is also a threat to the character of our nation that binds us together as Americans in a common purpose and gives life to our Constitution,” he said in a speech last September.
December, Biden
I have written“Trump poses many threats to our country — the right to choose, civil rights, the right to vote, and America’s standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy.”
“He will destroy this country, our democracy.”
Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)
I got it. After the shooting at a Trump rally, he said, “The Biden campaign’s central argument is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. This rhetoric directly led to the assassination attempt on President Trump.”
Many Democrats beyond Biden have worked tirelessly to promote this narrative, knowing from the start that it is false.
Trump and his Republican colleagues,Enemy of the StateRep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was suggested In April, he claimed that President Trump posed a “significant threat to our democracy.”
For example, the Democratic National Committee is running an ad campaign in several states calling Trump not only a “con man,” a “liar” and a “denier,” but also a “threat to our democracy.” report Leech.
Of course, there are many variations on this theme.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Said Trump poses a “clear and imminent danger” to both Congress and the nation. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) appears to be reading from the same script. Shown Any moment that Trump takes office is a “clear and imminent danger to the safety and security of the American people.”
In May, California Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a longtime advocate of street violence, tried to portray Trump as a would-be dictator.
Ms Waters suggested to MSNBC commentator Jonathan Capehart that Trump would seek a third term, saying: “Donald Trump can get away with anything he wants. He has no support for the Constitution of the United States. Watch out for this guy.”
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) agreed, telling Capehart, “I have no doubt that if Donald Trump is re-elected, he will try to stay in office beyond his four-year term. He will destroy this country, he will destroy our democracy.”
Biden, who was sharply criticized by Trump’s campaign for using the word “catastrophe” to describe the economic impact of continued job offshoring under his administration, suggested in a donor-only call last week that “it’s time to hold Trump tough.”
New York Sun
I got it. Unlike Trump’s “genocide” remarks, Biden’s “spot-on” remarks “have no casual applicability.”
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