President Donald Trump dangled the threat of violence before would-be protesters last night, harkening back to past campaign rallies where several were assaulted.
During a rally outside Pittsburgh, Trump referred generally to “some kind of anti-Trump person” and then noted, “You don’t see it much anymore. You know why? It’s dangerous! It’s dangerous for them.”
Trump on why you don’t see anti-Trump protesters at his rallies anymore: “It’s dangerous. It’s dangerous for them.” pic.twitter.com/dkgzaP9Vl9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2020
He’s right. When Trump has spoken about protesters in this way in the past — saying in 2016, for example, that he would “pay for the legal fees” of supporters that knocked out protesters — his supporters did attack some of them. It happened over and over and over and over again.
Dallas Frazier, who repeatedly punched an anti-Trump protester multiple times outside a Trump rally in 2019, was sentenced to four months in prison earlier this year. But others who’ve attacked protesters haven’t faced penalties at all.
So we are about a week, two maybe, from Trump pleading with his supporters to go out and kill Democrats, aren’t we? I don’t mean hints, I mean directly asking for all Dems to be killed.
It’s a hell of a lot more dangerous for the MAGAts who are breathing all over each other. Let’s hope the heavy breathers propel some aerosolized droplets forward, towards the stage.
I’m not opposed to assisted suicide, but I do fervently hope that no innocents are exposed to your cult of personality post-infection.
We can only hope that the majority of Americans, those not in the Trump Cult, are paying attention to what is spewing from his mouth. And do whatever it takes to get to a polling station or send in their ballots early to get this walking cancer removed from office. Our very existence depends on it
He’s going to create more Timothy McVeighs. The Dems could use Trump’s words and images of what McVeigh did, and ask “is this what you really want?”