It is not acceptable but it is predictable.
I predicted something like this weeks ago.
Do you think it is "predictable" because the far left has shown a penchant for violence in the past, especially during the 2020 race riots, and also during the violent opposition to building the public safety training center (aka "Cop City") in Atlanta?
“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
“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.”
“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
“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.”
“I think you’d have riots.”
March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National Convention
“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”
“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”
“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.”
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
“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.”
“I don’t ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”
“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”
“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“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”
“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 Capitol
“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”
“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”
“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”
“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”
“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”
“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”
“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”
September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in Pennsylvania
“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”
“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”
“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”
October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hall
