Remember when Sarah Palin’s campaign rhetoric was blamed for the Gabby Giffords shooting (which was perpetrated by one of Giffords’ own volunteers)? Talk about your double standards!
Get a load of the incendiary rhetoric Democrats have used against Trump …
- Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses.”
- Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
- Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
- Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
- Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
- Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
- Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
- Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … and that is a threat to this country.”
- Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
- Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
- Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
- Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
- Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
- Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
- Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
- Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
- Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
- Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
- Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
- Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”
- Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
- Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
- Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”
- Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”
- Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”
- Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
- Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
- Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”
- Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness’: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”
- Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”
- State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
- Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”
- Alex Witt, MSNBC: “Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to [tone it down]?”
- Phil Bump, The Washington Post: “Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged.”
- Bill Kristol, The Bulwark: “Vance … incite[s] potential violence with lies.”
- Ron Filipkowski, liberal commentator: “Was the golf course guy with the gun a migrant?”
- David Frum, The Atlantic: “Trump and his running mate have spent the past week successfully inciting violence … today they want to present themselves as near-victims of violence.”
- Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine: “Trump is a threat to democracy, and saying so is not incitement.”
- The Cincinnati Enquirer: “The former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself.”
- USA TODAY: “Hope in America.”
- NBC News: “Golf course incident.”
- Bloomberg: Trump “seizing on assassination attempt.”
SOURCE:
polination.blog 