• grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    55
    ·
    1 year ago

    The problem here is there’s a sub-group of Trump supporters who will read this and think “yeah, someone should just take out Hunter Biden, that will send a real message”. And there’s a sub-group of that group that will possibly try to do it.

    Trump is well aware, and possibly proud of, the fact that statements from him can lead to real world violence.

    He was trying to get the metal detectors removed from the Jan 6 rally because “they’re not here to hurt me”. This indicates he knew people would try to come armed and that they intended to hurt someone, just not him.

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      Trump is well aware, and possibly proud of, the fact that statements from him can lead to real world violence.

      There’s no “possibly”. He is proud of it, and he’s attempted to directly call for violence on multiple occasions since 1/6. Fortunately, it only actually worked the one time. But it did permanently force everybody to take his calls to violence seriously since he only needs one well-armed MAGA moron to do some serious damage, and his base has proven that there are plenty of people out there waiting for that call.