Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell say Democrats' language might get Trump killed
Donald Trump has been blaming Democrats' rhetoric for the assassination attempts against him ever since they happened, and now other prominent Republicans are jumping on board.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a joint statement on Oct. 25 ordering Democrats to knock off their violent rhetoric toward the former president.
Sure, those on the left haven't directly come out and said that Trump needs to be killed.
However, they HAVE come right out and said that he needs to be "locked up" and that he needs to be stopped at all costs.
"This summer, after the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that ‘we can’t allow this violence to be normalized.’ In September, after President Trump escaped yet another close call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that ‘we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,’" Johnson and McConnell said in the statement.
"These words have proven hollow. In the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over," they added.
It's not fair that our police are ready to respond in the event of a Trump assassination. This country shouldn't have to operate like that.