Trump supports and encourages physical threats against President Biden with Truth Social posts.
Trump posted a video that contained an image on a truck. The image depicted a bound and gagged President Biden.
Joyce Vance published in response to the image, “I know from experience how the Secret Service interacts with people who threaten POTUS, even those they can’t execute. This, from a former president, is totally out of bounds. It’s time to stop letting Trump break the rules. Has been a long time.”
However, this is the same Secret Service that Trump loyalists infiltrated and destroyed 1/6 of the evidence, so even as people get visits from the Secret Service for less and less, it would be surprising if they visited Trump.
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Donald Trump thinks he can deny it if he reposts threats made by other people, but that’s not necessarily the case. Given Trump’s long and high-profile attempts to incite violence, any threats that appear against him against the President of the United States should be taken seriously.
Trump may think he is being cunning and timid by stepping to the line, but he is very close to inciting an attack on the President of the United States.
The image in the video on Truth Social is a reminder that Trump is no ordinary presidential candidate, and that he is perfectly fine with violence and terrorism returning to power.
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