'Will try to kill people': Expert warns Trump is using a known tactic to pass down marching orders
1 year, 2 months ago

'Will try to kill people': Expert warns Trump is using a known tactic to pass down marching orders

Raw Story  

A political analyst warned Sunday that Donald Trump’s followers “will try to kill people” as the former president’s violent rhetoric ramps up – and it's increasingly being normalized. Brian Klaas, an associate professor in global politics at University College London, told MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart that, while the nation apparently isn’t taking Trump’s threats seriously, a group of his followers is hanging on every word. It's an academic jargon term, what it basically means is that when someone who is very powerful and influential targets or demonizes individual groups in the public, at least a small number of their followers will take them as marching orders. “What is highly likely, going into the 2024 election, a small subset of Trump's very well-armed extremists base will try to kill people.” Watch the video below or at this link.

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Trump's violent fantasies: Experts warn of "a terror that blinds us to what’s coming next"
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's violent fantasies: Experts warn of "a terror that blinds us to what’s coming next"

Salon  

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'I'm going to kill him': Man named Crazybull charged with death threats against Trump
3 months ago

'I'm going to kill him': Man named Crazybull charged with death threats against Trump

Raw Story  

An Idaho man has been charged with repeatedly making threatening phone calls to Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Warren Jones Crazybull, 64, of Sandpoint, made at least nine calls to the private resort since July 31 threatening to kill the former president, according to a criminal complaint first reported by Forbes. A Facebook page that appears to belong to Crazybull included …

‘Fight, fight, fight!’ or ‘UNITE’? At historic moment, Trump faces rhetorical choice
5 months, 1 week ago

‘Fight, fight, fight!’ or ‘UNITE’? At historic moment, Trump faces rhetorical choice

LA Times  

When Jennifer Mercieca published a book four years ago titled “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump,” some of her friends immediately questioned the title. Robert C. Rowland, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas and author of the book “The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy,” said he would be shocked if …

Trump shooting points to growing threats of political violence
5 months, 1 week ago

Trump shooting points to growing threats of political violence

LA Times  

The would-be assassin’s gunfire that wounded former President Trump and sent panic through a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday was unleashed at a time of increasing hostilities in American politics that have roused extremes on the left and the right and further inflamed divisions ahead of the November election. “I see parallels with the left-wing groups of the 1970s like …

Victim and Hero: Donald Trump’s shooting seals his political edge for 2024
5 months, 1 week ago

Victim and Hero: Donald Trump’s shooting seals his political edge for 2024

Hindustan Times  

The image of Donald Trump raising his fist in the air, giving a determined look to the crowd and calling on them to “fight, fight, fight”, with blood dripping from his ear to his face, will define the 2024 American presidential elections. First, for Trump’s base, which identifies itself as the Make America Great Again movement, Trump has always been …

What the Trump assassination attempt means for US politics
5 months, 1 week ago

What the Trump assassination attempt means for US politics

Al Jazeera  

On Saturday, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a campaign rally left the former president bloodied but not seriously injured, an audience member and the gunman dead and two other spectators seriously wounded. Mainstream political figures and pundits from across the political spectrum also immediately expressed concern for Trump and the other victims and condemned this act of political …

"Some folks need killing!": It's time to take MAGA threats of violence literally and seriously
5 months, 2 weeks ago

"Some folks need killing!": It's time to take MAGA threats of violence literally and seriously

Salon  

Attempts by Donald Trump and his MAGA minions to create plausible deniability of their violent intentions are getting less plausible by the day. For instance, Trump called his fellow Americans "vermin" and implied they needed elimination, but caveated it by saying he's talking about "Communists, Marxists, Fascist and Radical Left Thugs." The idea that only pants-wetters would see violence in …

"You will get violence": Leading democracy expert says Donald Trump is not running to win election
1 year, 4 months ago

"You will get violence": Leading democracy expert says Donald Trump is not running to win election

Salon  

Contrary to what many professional centrists and hope-peddlers in the American mainstream news media and political class would like to believe, the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol was not the climax of the Age of Trump. In an attempt to understand what comes next with an imperiled Donald Trump and the growing reality of right-wing violence and its …

Trump warns of 'death and destruction' if he's charged with crimes
1 year, 9 months ago

Trump warns of 'death and destruction' if he's charged with crimes

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump on Friday warned that charging him with crimes could lead to "death and destruction." In a post on his Truth Social network, the former president once again attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for potentially charging him with crimes due to his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. "What kind of person can charge …

Trump will attempt to incite 'political violence' if the DOJ indicts him: MSNBC analyst
2 years, 4 months ago

Trump will attempt to incite 'political violence' if the DOJ indicts him: MSNBC analyst

Raw Story  

During a panel discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, political commentator John Heilemann suggested the country prepare for Donald Trump to attempt to incite his rabid followers should the Department of Justice indict him on criminal charges. Heilemann chimed in and said that " Merrick Garland should not be thinking about the political consequences, thinking about whether Donald Trump …

US warns of more ‘domestic extremist’ violence in months ahead
3 years, 10 months ago

US warns of more ‘domestic extremist’ violence in months ahead

Al Jazeera  

A federal bulletin says Capitol riot could inspire further violence as far right seethes over Trump’s loss. The United States could face a heightened threat of domestic extremist violence for weeks from people angry at Donald Trump’s election defeat and inspired by the deadly storming of the US Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security warned on Wednesday. The advisory comes …

Trump Has Incited Violence All Along. The GOP Just Didn't Care Until Now.
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump Has Incited Violence All Along. The GOP Just Didn't Care Until Now.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After President Donald Trump urged a riotous mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, some Republicans have finally had enough. At least 10 Trump administration officials have resigned since Wednesday’s attack, in which five people, including a police officer, died. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s golfing buddies, said it “breaks my heart that my …

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