And Donald Trump OWNS the angry….violence hustle to the masses…..
There should be NO surprise it comes back at him….
Peter Baker reminds us:
“Trump has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near-fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speaker and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed.”
“While Mr. Trump insists his fiery speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, was not responsible for the subsequent ransacking of the Capitol, he resisted pleas from advisers and his own daughter that day to do more to stop the assault. He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.”
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More from the Baker NY Times piece….
Mr. Trump does not pause to reflect on the impact of his own words. Just last week, his false pet-eating accusations against Haitian migrants during his debate with Ms. Harris were quickly followed by bomb threats that turned life upside-down in Springfield, Ohio, and he did nothing to discourage them. After 33 bomb threats, Ohio’s governor said Monday that law enforcement would conduct daily sweeps of schools in the town.
Asked by a reporter if he denounced the bomb threats, he demurred. “I don’t know what happened with the bomb threats,” he said. “I know that it’s been taken over by illegal migrants, and that’s a terrible thing that happened.”
Mr. Trump’s critics have at times employed the language of violence as well, though not as extensively and repeatedly at the highest levels. The former president’s allies distributed a video compilation online of various Trump opponents saying they would like to punch him in the face or the like. Some of the more extreme voices on social media in the past day have mocked or minimized the close call at the Florida golf course. Mr. Trump’s allies often decry what they call Trump Derangement Syndrome, the notion that his critics despise him so much they have lost their minds.
Anger, of course, has long been the animating force of Mr. Trump’s time in politics — both the anger he stirs among supporters against his rivals and the anger that he generates among opponents who come to loathe him. Predictions that he might rethink that after he narrowly escaped death in Butler proved ephemeral. By halfway through his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention five days later, he was back to himself…..
Note….
Will Trump’s bombastic comments end up having the American taxpayer’s PAY for his securty for the rest of his life at the INCREASED level it is now?
jamesb says
New Open Thread is HERE….
jamesb says
Harris HAS spoken to Trump at least twice in the last week……
At the NYC World Trade Center in person and on the phone after the Golf course incident
jamesb says
Update….
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to block a voter registration drive in one of his state’s most populous urban counties — and biggest Democratic strongholds — has failed in state district court.
On Monday, State District Judge Antonia Arteaga dismissed the Republican attorney general’s lawsuit against Bexar County, the home of San Antonio….
More….
jamesb says
Morning
jamesb says
Something in Russian in the filter with urs SE…
Gone
Ghost of SE says
Interesting analysis.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/trump-vs-harris-election-odds-who-will-win/
jamesb says
And YES…….
There COULD BE a landslide FOR the Harris/Walz ticket if they can wrestle Pa, NC and Ga along with Mich, Wis, Nev and Ariz……
Some here do NOT think that is possible
Ghost of SE says
If anything, I am checking and tempering my own optimism over the course of the next month.
If things continue to go well for her, I’d also add Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Utah to the list of reach states. That’s in addition to all the swing states plus Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas.
jamesb says
He, he, he
Ok
Ya gotta stop
Some on ur list would have to have Trump come back to the Democrats tomorrow
Ghost of SE says
I’ve actively thinned my list of upset possibilities down to more reasonable targets in the Presidential, House, and Senate races. I had several ideas beyond the states I listed @12:58 that turned out to be too far fetched to be seriously considered. Several Deep South/Great Plains states you’ve heard me talk about are no longer serious considerations(if they ever really were) in my eyes.
I agree with the article I posted on how high her margin could go, but I’ll keep that discussion within reason. It won’t be a Reagan style landslide. At most LBJ.
Ghost of SE says
Actually, more like somewhere between HW Bush in 1988 and LBJ in 1964.