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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Threatens Violence If He's Impeached for Inciting Violence
Yesterday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republicans in Congress that he had spoken with President Trump, who in turn expressed remorse and responsibility for whipping up a mob that stormed the Capitol. I asked him personally today if he holds responsibility for what happened, if he feels bad about what happened, McCarthy recounted. He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened.
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And so, today, when Trump appeared before the media, he did not sound at all like the version McCarthy presented yesterday. Trump told the press that he accepted no responsibility for the riot and that his speech like his 2019 phone call extorting Ukraines president was perfect. So if you read my speech, and many people have done it, and Ive seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, its been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate, he explained.
In that perfect speech, Trump exhorted his crowd, Were going to walk down to the Capitol, and were going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. Were probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because youll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong. Unsurprisingly, many of the radicals in the crowd interpreted his demand for strength as a request that they use force.
Trump also insisted that impeaching him for inciting his supporters to commit violence would merely incite them to commit more violence:
"This impeachment is causing tremendous anger. And youre doing it, and its really a terrible thing that theyre doing. For Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to continue on this path, I think its causing tremendous danger to our country, and its causing tremendous anger. I want no violence."
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Trump Threatens Violence If He's Impeached for Inciting Violence (Original Post)
RAB910
Jan 2021
OP
This is like a mobster telling a shop keeper what a nice business they have and it would be a shame
RAB910
Jan 2021
#4
Holy shit - he's a seditionist. He's doubling down, rallying his traitors. 25th that piece of shit.
AnotherMother4Peace
Jan 2021
#6
Blue Owl
(50,348 posts)1. Go fuck yourself Donny you fat piece of shit
You can't have it both ways
Bluethroughu
(5,149 posts)2. That's letting his supporters know, he agrees with their anger
While acting as if he can do nothing to control them.
Telling the truth, he will not do.
dalton99a
(81,443 posts)3. Yep.
RAB910
(3,497 posts)4. This is like a mobster telling a shop keeper what a nice business they have and it would be a shame
if anything were to happen to it
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)5. When they can't play one, the GOP always blames the victim.
Fuck their fury.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,242 posts)6. Holy shit - he's a seditionist. He's doubling down, rallying his traitors. 25th that piece of shit.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)7. Not so much as Trump threatening violence as much as
inciting violence and then putting the blame on Pelosi and Schumer, not himself.
gohuskies
(1,156 posts)8. tRump is America's Caligula
Insane and capable of unchecked evil intent to benefit only himself. He needs to be removed and jailed.
sarisataka
(18,598 posts)9. A compulsive liar will
Compulsively lie, even when caught red handed in a lie.
A bully will always use intimidation and force to get their way, even if it is not necessary.
An abuser will apologize but try to put blame on the victim for causing the abuse.
He has the traits of all three.
still_one
(92,130 posts)10. The best thing that trump can do for the country is drop dead
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)11. sure he doesn't
want violence, what a fucking lie.
too late for you thug.
and now 50 capitals are in danger.
question everything
(47,468 posts)12. This is his world. Me me me and violence if you disagree
eppur_se_muova
(36,258 posts)13. Interesting rhetorical strategy. nt