In the past few days, Trump and his media allies have increased their hyped lies that look like they are preparing to rally supporters to foment violence if Trump loses on Nov. 5. Among them are trying to pin the blame for attempts to assassinate him (The Butler attempt was a registered Republican; the one in Florida, a Democrat, but mental illness has not been discounted in either). It is particularly rich as more evidence comes out that Trump stood by while the January 6 mob tried to lynch VP Pence, with a "so what"response to the report. Trump has a long history of supporting violence to get his way even before January 6, praising the January 6 rioters as patriots, and Trump and his allies have been threatening it again in advance of Nov. 5. https://www.axios.com/2024/09/08/election-chaos-cheating-violence-trump
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-vance-civil-war-gop-political-violence/
President Biden warns again of violence if Trump loses. Take it very, very seriously. Let us hope these frequent warnings from Biden that the US is preparing for domestic violence if Trump loses. We could not prepare for January 6 because Trump was in the White House. This time, Biden and Harris are there. I fear the threats are not empty because we have seen the practice event. January 6 was just a dress rehearsal. Any violence, particularly an attempted coup, would set the US economy and political stability back for years. For businesses toying with supporting Trump, hoping for better deals with regulatory agencies and lower taxes, violence will be the worst-case scenario them as violence and instability make conducting any business a major risk. For those who hope they can get their religious agenda made into US domestic government policy, that makes the conflict even uglier. I have lived long enough to see this happen in microcosm, not just in Latin America but even in Europe in the 1990's the Balkans. Those hoping for violence, be careful what you wish.
https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/documented-history-of-trumps-call-to.html Documented history of Trump's call to violence 2020-2024
He calls Harris a “fascist” ihttps://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/trump-incendiary-claims-analysis/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recircIn almost every public appearance — for instance, he said on August 26 in Virginia that “we have a fascist person running who’s incompetent.” He used similar rhetoric on August 23, August 17, and August 3 in campaign appearances.
Earlier this year, he claimed Biden was running a “Gestapo administration” referring to the genocidal Nazi secret police. He parroted the language of some of history’s worst tyrants by calling his political opponents “vermin” and by warning that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
And when he refused to concede that he lost the 2020 election, Trump called supporters to Washington, DC, and told them to “fight like hell” or they wouldn’t have a country anymore. Then his supporters smashed their way into the US Capitol, to try to thwart the certification of Biden’s victory. Trump has since called those arrested over the events of January 6, 2021, political prisoners and said he’d look at pardoning them if he wins back the White House in November.
Even now Trump is warning he will only accept the result of this year’s election if he deems it fair and has warned he will seek to jail officials and political opponents if he wins back power.We heard this before in October 2020; https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lara-trump-insists-there-will-be-no-problem-if-trump-does-not-legally-and-legitimately-win-this-election/ It will be Trump's definition of legal and legit, of course. Courts did not count then but they have the Supreme Court compliant now.
For a more comprehensive posting, also visit https://feliciamuftic.substack.com
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