The heated rhetoric coming from politicians got here below larger scrutiny over the weekend as former President Trump survived an assassination attempt at a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania.
On a number of events piror to the assassination attempt, President Biden used excessive language in opposition to his opponent, portray him as a menace to American democracy and claiming he shall be a “dictator” if he wins the 2024 election.
Biden, whereas calling Trump a menace to the nation, compared what he called an “extreme MAGA” Republican philosophy to “semi-fascism.” Biden’s assaults have develop into a essential a part of his marketing campaign technique.
Biden instructed donors in a non-public name, which was reported publicly last week, he needed the get together and the media to place a “bullseye” on Trump. The president additionally reportedly instructed individuals that his technique was to “attack, attack, attack.”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is moved from the stage at a marketing campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” he mentioned.
While speaking with campaign donors in November, Biden in contrast Trump’s pledge to “root out” political enemies he described as “vermin” to that of the Nazis. The Trump marketing campaign rebuked the “disgusting connection.”
“Our very democracy is at stake,” Biden mentioned as a part of the similar speech. Trump “is running on a platform to end democracy as we know it, and he’s not even hiding the ball.”
Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech in September 2022 contained a few of his most excessive rhetoric about Trump and the so-called “MAGA Republicans.”
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” he mentioned. “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.”
Biden has routinely attacked Trump supporters in marketing campaign speeches.
“I don’t respect the MAGA Republicans,” Biden mentioned in August 2022.
“MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies,” he mentioned in January 2024.
Biden has additionally run TV advertisements which declare Trump, if he gained the presidency, can be a “dictator” who would use the Department of Justice to prosecute his political enemies.
“Trump stood with violent White supremacists, warned of a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the next election and if he is president again, vowed to be a ‘dictator,’” the advert, which aired on MSNBC in May, said.
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BIDEN SPOKE WITH TRUMP FOLLOWING SHOOTING AT PENNSYLVANIA RALLY
Both Vice President Kamala Harris and Biden have equally claimed in marketing campaign speeches that Trump would use the DOJ to go after his enemies.
During one other speech in Michigan on Friday, the day before the tried assassination, Biden spoke to supporters, the place he mentioned Trump deliberate to be a “dictator on day one” and that he was “Putin’s puppy.”
“Trump is even more dangerous now. I’m serious, he’s snapped,” Biden mentioned. “He says if he loses, there will be a bloodbath.”
As a part of a notable speech kicking off his 2024 marketing campaign in Pennsylvania forward of the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riots, Biden accused Trump of threatening American democracy.
“We nearly lost America,” Biden instructed the crowd.
“The choice is clear,” Biden said. “Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America, not you. Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he’s rushed into a automobile at a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Biden mentioned “Donald Trump’s lies” are in charge for the deaths of a number of individuals who died in the Capitol riots, stating Trump “as usual, left the dirty work to others.”
“They died because his lies brought a mob to Washington,” the president mentioned. Trump referred to as Biden the “true threat to democracy” in response to the president’s remarks.
In the similar speech, Biden additionally talked about the October 2022 assault on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. A hammer-wielding man had been allegedly attempting to kidnap the speaker, and attacked her husband as an alternative after realizing she was not at dwelling.
Trump appeared to mock the incident in remarks at a California GOP conference, saying the speaker was “against building a wall at our border even though she has a wall around her house, which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”
Biden appeared able to curse Trump for these feedback before abruptly stopping himself.
“You know, Trump and his MAGA supporters not only embrace political violence, but they laugh about it,” Biden mentioned in his speech. “At his rally, he jokes about an intruder, whipped up by the Big Trump Lie, taking a hammer to Paul Pelosi’s skull and echoing the very same words used on January 6th: “Where’s Nancy?”
“He laughed about it,” Biden said of Trump. “What a sick –,” he mentioned, before stopping.
Biden ran political advertisements claiming Trump desires to be a dictator. (Getty)
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