NewsVine_Mariyam
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Trump's hands are definitely not clean in any of this.
I was simply looking for a news story I could cite of when roughly 10 years ago, Trump kept threatening Saturday Night Live, the broadcast station, etc. with a lawsuit or getting them banned and taken off the air because they made mocking him and making hay out of all of the absurdities of his life and presidency, a recurring theme of the broadcast. Instead I was provided with a virtual goldmine of Trump advocating, in many instances, actual violence against protestors and hecklers at some of his rallies.
In retrospect, is it any wonder that the January 6th violent attempt to prevent the 2020 election from being certified occurred? After all, Trump was on record stating he'd pay the legal fees for those acting on his behalf.
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I was simply looking for a news story I could cite of when roughly 10 years ago, Trump kept threatening Saturday Night Live, the broadcast station, etc. with a lawsuit or getting them banned and taken off the air because they made mocking him and making hay out of all of the absurdities of his life and presidency, a recurring theme of the broadcast. Instead I was provided with a virtual goldmine of Trump advocating, in many instances, actual violence against protestors and hecklers at some of his rallies.
In retrospect, is it any wonder that the January 6th violent attempt to prevent the 2020 election from being certified occurred? After all, Trump was on record stating he'd pay the legal fees for those acting on his behalf.
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By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “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.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 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, at a rally in Iowa“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debate“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017Reuters“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protester“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t ******* care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty
“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”
