Take Trump's 'Warning' of Violence for What It Is--a Threat

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When Donald Trump warns of possible violence, as he is now doing in connection with potential criminal charges against him, he is inciting his followers to violence if that eventuality occurs and threatening the rest of us. It's a recurring pattern.

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Take Trump’s ‘Warning’ of Violence for What It Is—a Threat
The ex-president and his MAGA militias have made good on their promises to “fight like hell” before. You’d be a fool to believe they won’t do it again.
6:05 AM · Sep 27, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/take-donald-trumps-warning-of-violence-for-what-it-is-a-threat?ref=wrap

If a guy told you he’s going to punch you in the face, and he told his buddies to punch other people in the face, and then he warned everyone else that they were going to start punching people in the face, and they ultimately did punch many people in the face—you’d probably take their word for it if they threatened to do it again, right?

That’s what Donald Trump and his MAGA militias are doing right now.

The ex-president—still unwilling to admit he lost an election that was at least as fair as the one he won four years earlier—might yet face the first meaningful legal consequences of his decades-long career of naked corruption. I’d still bet on him slithering out of accountability, again, but it’s possible that his asinine pilfering of highly classified documents as a private citizen, and then refusing to give them back to the federal government after months of promising he would, could be Trump’s Waterloo.

The guy who made a million “Lock Her Up” chants bloom during the 2016 campaign (over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, with which she shared some classified material) now says law enforcement holding him accountable for high crimes would be nothing less than a politically motivated banana republic-style prosecution of an ex-president.

And, were he to be prosecuted for essentially stealing state secrets, Trump predicted we’d see “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before,” adding, “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” (Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s more prominent on-again, off-again sycophants, also warned that a Trump indictment could lead to “riots in the streets.”)

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1. All the more reason to indict and prosecute Trump.

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