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In The Race For 2024, Calls For Violence By Democrats Have Persisted:
- Kamala Harris has consistently used inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric against President Trump, painting him as a “threat.”
- January 15: “At this moment in America, freedom is under profound threat.”
- March 18: “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- April 4: “If reelected, Trump has openly said he intends to weaponize the Department of Justice against his enemies. He openly talks about his admiration for dictators and has vowed to be a dictator on day one. It’s on us to recognize the threat he poses—the choice is clear in November.”
- May 24: “Donald Trump thinks gun violence is something we all need to just ‘get over.’ He is a threat to the safety of our children and communities.”
- June 17: “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- June 27: “Donald Trump has vowed that he will be a dictator on ‘day one.’ He is a threat to our democracy and our fundamental freedoms.”
- July 3: “It’s simple: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- July 4: “If reelected, Trump has vowed to be a dictator on day one and openly said he intends to weaponize the Department of Justice against his enemies. It’s on us to recognize the threat he poses—the choice is clear in November.”
- July 13: “…what’s at stake this election and the clear threat the former president represents to our democracy.”
- October 23: Kamala said “I do” multiple times when asked if she believes President Trump is a “fascist.”
- Just 14 days before the second assassination attempt on President Trump, Kamala Harris posted a graphic reading “Donald Trump vows to be a dictator on day one,” captioning it “We won’t let him.”
- Tim Walz told Americans that President Trump is a “threat to Democracy” and a “fascist” who will “put people’s lives in danger.”
- Walz likened President Trump’s supporters to Nazis — then doubled down.
- Biden called President Trump’s supporters “garbage.”
- Biden said he’d like to “smack” Republicans “in the ass.”
- Biden told donors that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said that President Trump must be “eliminated” to protect democracy.
- State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO) tweeted “the last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are” following the assassination attempt on President Trump.
- Lincoln Project cofounder Rick Wilson said that “they’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
- Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) said Trump “needs to be shot.”
- Former Biden White House Communications Director said Democrats need to “turn their fire on Donald Trump” days after the failed assassination attempt.
- A Democratic candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, Will Stancil, questioned why “Biden couldn’t just drone strike Trump and end this.”
- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) compared Hispanic Trump supporters to “Jews for Hitler.”
- Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that Trump is “more dangerous” than Hitler and Mussolini.
- Actress Lea DeLaria called for Biden to “take that Bitch Trump out,” calling him “Hitler” and saying to “blow him up.”
- Actor Robert De Niro warned that Trump would “destroy the world” unless he is stopped.
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said “Right now I feel like MAGA in general, they are threats to us domestically” just hours before there was a second assassination attempt on President Trump.
- A day after the second assassination attempt on President Trump, New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait wrote a piece titled “Donald Trump Is a Threat to Democracy, and Saying So Is Not Incitement.”
- A month after President Trump was shot in an attempted assassination attack, Nancy Pelosi called President Trump a “threat to democracy of a kind we have not seen.”
- Less than 48 hours after President Trump was shot in an attempted assassination attack, Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say whether Biden and Harris would stop calling President Trump a “threat to democracy.”
- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on January 6, 2025 it will be the Congress’s job to tell the “rampaging Trump mobs that he is disqualified and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”
- On MSNBC, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis said President Trump is exactly like Hitler.
- March For Our Lives founder David Hogg tweeted “What do you do when the former president is the greatest threat to US national security?”
- Democrat influencer Harry Sisson tweeted “According to the Supreme Court, Biden could now send in Seal Team 6 to take all of them out. He could send in the military to take out Trump. He has “immunity” for official acts now!”
- Democrat influencer Brian Krassenstein tweeted, “There were 42 assassination attempts on Hitler. It’s hardly a reason to vote for someone.”
- On March 17, then-Biden-Harris Communications Director Michael Tyler repeated the “bloodbath” and “very fine people” hoax saying that President Trump enables “political violence” and that he poses a “threat to our democracy.”
- On May 29, then-Biden-Harris Communications Director Michael Tyler said on MSNBC that President Trump poses a unique treat “to our democracy.”
- On January 6, 2021, Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris David Plouffe compared President Trump and his supporters to the Confederacy.
- On January 8, 2021, Kamala Harris’ spokesman Ian Sams accused President Trump of “attacking democracy and encouraging insurrection.”
During President Trump’s First Term, Democrats Repeatedly Called For Violence:
- Biden said he wanted to “beat the hell out of” President Trump and “smack him in the mouth.”
- Biden fantasized to a crowd about Trump being delivered a “coup de grâce” or death blow.
- Kamala Harris, asked about being stuck in an elevator with President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, responded “does one of us have to come out alive?”
- Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has repeatedly talked and laughed about “punching” President Trump.
- Booker encouraged people to “get up in the face of some congresspeople.”
- Obama Attorney General Eric Holder said “when they go low, we kick ‘em.”
- Hillary Clinton said “you cannot be civil” with Republicans, and that “civility can start again” only when Democrats take power.
- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has encouraged activists to confront Trump officials and supporters, saying “you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
- Waters said “I will go and take out Trump tonight.”
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said that “there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.”
- Then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be.”
- Pelosi told Democrats “you better be able to take a punch and throw a punch.”
- Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) called for Democrats to “fight in the streets” against Trump.
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) said Trump “showed how dark his soul is” and is a “truly dangerous man.”
- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) displayed an “86 45” sign during a national television interview encouraging viewers to “86” or assassinate President Trump.
- Former Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosello suggested he would “punch” the President “in the mouth.”
- State Sen. Maria Chapelle-Nadal (D-MO) posted on Facebook “I hope Trump is assassinated!”
- State Rep. Scott Hamann (D-ME) suggested he would assassinate the President if he came within ten feet of him.
- Liberal celebrities have openly discussed harming the President and his family.
- Kathy Griffin posed for a photo made to look like the President had been decapitated.
- Madonna admitted that she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”
- Johnny Depp asked his audience “when was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”
- Peter Fonda said Barron Trump should be ripped “from his mother’s arms” and put “in a cage with pedophiles.”
- Robert De Niro said “I’d like to punch him in the face.”
Recent Supreme Court Decisions Led To Violent Democrat Rhetoric:
- Surrounding the Dobbs decision, Democrats fiery rhetoric was designed to intimidate the justices and encourage violence to achieve their political aims.
- Pelosi said “the focus” was to influence and change the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) agreed: “That’s right. This is not a drill.”
- Schumer encouraged threats to Supreme Court justices in 2020 when he said “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) encouraged her supporters to “rise up,” after the Dobbs decision, because “a normal response won’t suffice.”
- Nancy Pelosi called on protesters to actively pressure justices to influence their decisions.
- Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) delivered “literally a call to arms” against pro-life Americans.
- Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) called on pro-abortion activists to “armor up” because “there’s a war out there.”
- Following the leak of the Dobbs decision, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged people to “fight,” saying this “moment has to be a call to arms.”
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) urged angry protestors to get “into the streets,” calling the Dobbs decision illegitimate.
- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called for pro-abortion extremists to “fight“: “The hell with the Supreme Court! We will defy them! … You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
- Waters encouraged protesters to “create a crowd” and “push back” against Trump administration officials they see in public.
- Democrats refused to condemn the threatening protests outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices.
- Psaki refused to say if Biden “has a view” on activists harassing justices at their homes.
- Psaki refused to condemn protests at justices’ homes even though it is against the law.
- Psaki refused to condemn the doxing of justices’ personal information even as threats of violence grew.
- Psaki downplayed the harassment, claiming protests “have been peaceful to date and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges’ homes.”
- Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) answered “yes” when asked if he was “comfortable with protests…outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.”
- Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to condemn activists posting the justices’ home addresses online.
- Gov. Gretchen Witmer (D-MI) refused to condemn violence from pro-abortion extremists.
Republicans Have Been Targeted Victims Of Violence:
- Republican candidates and officials have regularly been attacked, with this violence being ignored or condoned by the left.
- In July 2024, President Trump was the target of an assassination attempt, with the bullet piercing his ear.
- In September 2024, President Trump was the target of yet another assassination attempt.
- In July 2022, New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R-NY) was attacked on stage at a campaign rally near Rochester, NY after being called “extreme” by Democrats opponents.
- After Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was assaulted by his next-door neighbor, sustaining broken ribs and bruises to his lungs in 2017, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter went to social media to seemingly endorse the violence against the Senator.
- In 2021, Paul received a suspicious package at his family home.
- In 2020, Paul was attacked by BLM protestors while leaving the White House.
- A man armed with a pistol, knife and other weapons was arrested outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in June 2022, citing the impending Dobbs decision as a primary motivation to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.
- In 2018, Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot at a Congressional baseball game practice in Alexandria, VA by a Bernie Sanders supporter motivated by left wing calls of “Republicans are the Taliban of the USA.”
- In 2021, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) home was vandalized with profanity and graffiti, with three Antifa symbols sprayed.
- In March, a RNC Hispanic Community Center in Milwaukee, WI was vandalized.
- In June, a RNC field office was vandalized with a rock thrown through a window.
- In July, former gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor (R-GA) had her family’s home swatted.
- Since August, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had her Georgia home swatted on at least six different occasions.
- In 2021, then-California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (R-CA) was attacked in the street by a woman in a gorilla mask.
Democrats Have Tirelessly Vilified Republicans As Threats To Democracy
- Biden has repeatedly called President Trump and Republicans existential threats:
- Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation.”
- Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
- Biden: “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
- Biden: “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
- Biden: “It’s no understatement to say that Donald Trump represents an existential threat to the future of our country.”
- Biden: “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy.”
- Biden: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
- Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) declared “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) called Trump an “existential threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed “Trump poses the kind of existential threat our Founders feared.”
- Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY): “Donald Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy … Republicans just flock in one line. That’s something that endangers democracy. That’s what happened in the 1930s. The Germans just walked in line with Hitler and Stalin.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): “Trump is an existential threat to our country’s democracy.”
- Goldman: “Donald Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) claimed “the Supreme Court poses an existential threat to democracy itself due to the 6-3 hyperpartisan, conservative majority that runs that institution.”
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Trump poses greatest threat to our democracy since Nixon.”
- Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA) stated “I believe President Trump presents an existential threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) claimed “what unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
- Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) said that President Trump is “truly a danger to our democracy.”
- Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) claimed “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy…the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
- Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH) suggested “Donald Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
- Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) stated “we cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
- Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) suggested “the threat [Speaker Mike Johnson] poses to our democracy and religious freedom is undeniable…”
- Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO): “Trump is a threat to democracy.”
- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): “The GOP today…qualifies as an authoritarian or a fascist political party so the threats, generally speaking, are all the threats of authoritarianism and fascism, that it will be the end of democratic self-rule in the country.”
- Rep. Nanette D. Barragan (D-CA): “This is a Trump presidency that is going to take away your freedoms and is going to threaten democracy as we know it.”
- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ): “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
- Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO): “I voted to impeach Trump twice because he’s a threat to our democracy.”
- The Florida Democratic party claimed President Trump “is an existential threat to our country…if he wins, we know that he’ll do everything possible to make sure he ends democracy.”
- The Pennsylvania Democratic party claimed “Donald Trump poses an existential threat to our democracy.”
- Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D-WA): “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy.”
