Speaking to Fox News in the wake of the horrific assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr argued that the Democrats who are pushing the rhetoric about former President Donald Trump being an “existential threat” to America’s “democracy” must stop, as that rhetoric is “grossly irresponsible.”
Former AG Barr’s comments on the matter came in the hours after that assassination attempt on former President Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, PA, with Barr insisting in his statement to Fox News that “the Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy. He is not.”
In those comments, former AG Barr was joined by others who insisted that the left was pushing irresponsible rhetoric. Now-VP pick JD Vance, for example, said, in a post on X, “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Democracts indeed had pushed much rhetoric about American “democracy” being at stake in the 2024 election. For example, at 10 am on the morning of the assassination attempt, VP Kamala Harris posted, “I’m headed to Philadelphia today to join @APIAVote for a Town Hall to discuss what’s at stake this election and the clear threat the former president represents to our democracy.”
Similarly, in a post on X just a couple of days before the assassination attempt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “With Project 2025, the Trump Manifesto: The MAGA right is done speaking in euphemisms. They’re saying it straight to your face: If you can disagree with Donald Trump, watch your back. It’s bone-chilling. It’s un-American. It’s dangerous for our democracy.”
On the same note, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “@JoeBiden and Democrats delivered progress For The People and will keep defending Democracy at home and abroad. We must overcome threats from MAGA Republicans as we fight to protect our freedoms, strengthen alliances and advance opportunity and dignity for all. #MondayMotivation”
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The Federalist’s Mollie Hemmingway, calling out leftist rhetoric in the wake of the shooting, said, “Days after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Joe Biden is pushing out messaging and raising money off the claim that he is an “existential threat” to the country. Let us pray that this inflammatory rhetoric from the Democrat Party nominee is not acted upon by.any one.”
Similarly, House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was shot by a radical leftist in 2017, posted about the radical leftist rhetoric, saying, “For weeks Democrat leaders have been fueling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America. Clearly we’ve seen far left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past. This incendiary rhetoric must stop.”
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