Republicans said they wanted Trump’s massacre comments in context, so Biden’s campaign did it for them.
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What is the context of Trump’s bloodbath comment?
In a statement, the Biden campaign listed the context of Trump’s bloodbath remark:
– During his 2016 campaign, Trump encouraged his supporters to “silence” protesters. Trump has not accepted any responsibility for the violence at his rallies and has said he would pay supporters’ legal costs if they attacked protesters after inciting them.
– Trump said there is “blame on both sides” after violent riots by white nationalist and neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville.
– Trump celebrated a Republican who attacked a reporter: “Any guy who can do a body slam, that’s my type!”
– During a debate, Trump refused to condemn white supremacist violence by far-right groups like the Proud Boys, telling them to “stand back and stand by.”
– At a rally before his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, Trump told them: “You will never take back our country with weakness… If you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore. “
– Trump has suggested that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, be executed.
– Trump suggested that violence would have erupted if numerous court cases against him had not gone his way.
– Trump says he wants to be a dictator and praises them repeatedly.
– Trump has dehumanized his political opponents, calling them parasites, and said they should be rounded up and imprisoned, and described migrants as “not people.”
– This weekend, Trump again opened his rally by saying he would forgive violent rioters who attacked police officers and said, “If I don’t get elected, it will be a bloodbath for everyone – that will be the least of it. It will be a bloodbath for the country.”
Republicans are trying to defend Trump by claiming he was referring to the auto industry, but bloodbath is not a commonly used term when talking about domestic politics. Trump has a nearly decade-long history of making comments about political violence or attempting to incite political violence.
The context of what Trump was saying was not lost on anyone who had been paying attention since 2015.
The announcement is devastating because the Trump campaign is already on the defensive about the bloodbath comment, and they have no answer as to how President Biden is calling Trump an anti-American threat to the nation ahead of the election.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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