Political commentators are offering their insights after yesterday’s killing of Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk. Trump blamed the rhetoric of “the radical left” for political violence, saying, “[I]t is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”
Is he forgetting his own words?
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”
“We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard — or, if really necessary, by the military.”
—October 13, 2024
“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified.”
—June 6, 2024
“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
—March 16, 2024
“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
—November 11, 2023
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”
—September 22, 2023, about Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Mark Milley
“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
—March 4, 2023
“And when you see those lunatics all over the streets, it’s damn nice to have arms. Damn nice. ... The right to keep and bear arms, we’ll protect your Second Amendment.”
—June 20, 2020
—“[p]eople are acting like wild animals, victimizing whomever they please. And wild animals only respect strength. It’s time to be strong. Send in the military. Anyone being violent, make an example of them, with lead.”
—June 3, 2020
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
—May 29, 2020
“Any guy that can do a body slam is my kind of guy.”
—October 18, 2018, after congressional GOP candidate Greg Gianforte of Montana body slammed and injured a Guardian reporter
“We have people coming into the country or trying to come in, we’re stopping a lot of them. … You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals.”
—May 16, 2018
“[P]”lease don’t be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over it. Like, don’t hit their head, and they’ve just killed somebody. I said, you can take the hand away, OK?”
—July 28, 2017, to law enforcement officers
“In many respects, you know, [terrorists] honor President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS.”
—August 11, 2016
“Lock her up.”
—said repeatedly about Hillary Clinton; also about Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein
“Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.”
—August 9, 2016
“I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. It’s true. ... I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you.”
—February 22, 2016, about a protester
“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."
—February 6, 2016
“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”
—February 1, 2016, about a protester
“The man that was — I don’t know, you say ‘roughed up’ — he was so obnoxious and so loud, he was screaming. He should have been, maybe he should have been roughed up.”
—November 22, 2015, about a protester
Then there’s the name calling (a few examples)
Joe Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden,” “Crooked Joe”
Hillary Clinton: “a total train wreck,” “Crazy Hillary,” “Crooked Hillary”
Kamala Harris: “mean,” “horrible,” “disrespectful,” “awkward,” “a monster,” “Kambala,” “Laffin Kamala,” “Lyin Kamala”
Barack Obama: “Barack Hussein Obama,” “ignorant,” “clueless”
Nancy Pelosi: “crazy,” “an inherently dumb person”
Bernie Sanders: “Crazy Bernie”
Adam Schiff: Adam “Shifty” Schiff, “incompetent and corrupt,” “Pencil Neck”
Elizabeth Warren: “Pocahontas"
I apologize to anyone who finds this post offensive so soon after Kirk's murder.
Thanks to The Atlantic and Perspectives on Terrorism for the quotations.
I am disgusted how much time the news and social media are devoting to this when we have countless shootings and nothing is being done except to offer “thoughts and prayers “ The fact that this man got killed is horrible, but does he deserve the Presidential Metal of Honor? He has done nothing except that he worships DT.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anonymous. I don't know if they even found the shooter at this time.
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