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Though he once advised Democrats that "if your opponent brings a knife, you bring a gun," former President Obama asserted that "Trump's extreme policies and rhetoric have poisoned our politics. He wants to shut our country off from the immigrants we need to do the work that Americans won't do. He's mercilessly deporting family men like Abrego Garcia. He wants to punish rather than show compassion toward individuals driven to crime to support themselves in the lackluster economy his policies have inflicted on the middle class. He's firing tens of thousands of long-tenured public servants. These extreme views were not...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that former President Donald Trump’s politics of “hate and division” put the United States’ security in danger. Clinton said, “I’m very hopeful, and even optimistic that Americans who do not want to see a continuation of this politics of hate and division will reject Trump.” She continued, “The object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world. You know, they were merciless about what they saw as President Biden’s problems in the debate and calling for him to...

A stew of hypertoxic rhetoric has surged through social media and American discourse after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, inflaming a political environment that was already deeply polarized. The most concerning messages, experts told NBC News, are proclamations from far-right activists, Republican politicians and conservative influencers about a coming civil war and the need for retribution or payback against the left for Kirk’s killing. The phrase “civil war” has spiked on social media and in Google searches. “The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk posted on X to his 226 million followers, shortly after the shooting...

A newly unsealed federal complaint accuses a Downers Grove man of threatening to kill federal immigration officers and other public officials while stockpiling a small arsenal of weapons and ammunition marked with the names of political figures. .. The FBI says Stover used Bluesky and Facebook accounts to repeatedly post violent rhetoric from February through July 2025, including explicit calls to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “on sight.”

Former president Barack Obama exudes an air of superiority and self-assurance that inspires those to whom he’s speaking to believe everything he says is true. He has spent twenty years leveraging his soaring rhetoric to deceive the easily duped. That’s why it’s no surprise that we are now learning that the former president has tried to harm political opponents by saying one thing publicly and doing the exact opposite in private. Since 2004, America has received warnings from Barack Obama about threats he believes Americans should watch out for, including issues related to democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, free speech,...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a blistering verbal assault on the United States and President Donald Trump during a nationally televised speech, calling Trump a liar who brings shame on the American people, as the regime’s signature chant “Death to America” rang out repeatedly. The remarks were aired Saturday on Iran’s state-run Channel 1 and featured a crowd erupting multiple times into chants of “Death to America,” “Death to England,” and “Death to Israel,” as Khamenei accused U.S. leaders of using military power to spread war. “Some of the things the U.S. President said in his recent visit...

On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Washington Week,” New York Times Chief White House Correspondent and MSNBC Political Analyst Peter Baker stated that there have been instances of political violence from the left “But it does seem, at times, that Trump and his people seem to be more willing to use words like traitor and treasonous that might excite people to take action.” Baker stated, “On the physical violence part, and that has also been seen on both sides too, of course. President Trump was the target of two different assassination attempts last year. Just this last week, I think the...

Left-wing commentator and Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s administration was causing “an impending police state.” Tribe said, “I been in school for 50 years studying the constitution, teaching about it. It doesn’t enforce itself. It takes human beings of character to take it seriously. And when for whatever combination of cultural and social reasons, the nation selects someone who clearly has no respect for the constitution, someone who is cruel, someone who is without moral principle this is what we see. We see a tinhorn dictator interacting with a wannabe...

President Donald Trump said the United States “will not put up with” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anti-peace rhetoric “much longer.” Trump took to Truth Social after the Associated Press reported Monday that Zelensky said peace between Russia and Ukraine “is still very, very far away.” “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump wrote, sharing an image of the AP headline. “It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing,” Trump added...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued during an interview that President Trump’s recent tough rhetoric is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is “afraid of.” Since being sworn in, Trump has put more pressure on Putin to negotiate with Ukraine in order to reach a peace agreement that would potentially end the nearly three-year war in Eastern Europe. Trump said Putin is “destroying his country” and threatened to slap sanctions on the Kremlin if the agreement is not forged soon. “And this is exactly what Putin is afraid of. He doesn’t want strong Trump supporting Ukraine, because it would be strong Ukraine,”...

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that President-elect Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric had not stopped and caused the hammer attack on her husband, Paul. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: You know, tomorrow morning at the Capitol you and other members of Congress will be there to certify the election win in 2024 of Donald Trump. There’s an unprecedented level of security, in part because of what happened four years ago with the violent attack by his supporters to change the outcome of the last election. Why do you think that so many members of...

Most Democrats seem to be getting over last week’s thumping well enough, but a horrific fraction seem to have bought into their leaders’ irresponsible, apocalyptic rhetoric — and so are damaging themselves, their families and even their children. The most obvious case is Anthony Nephew, the Minnesota man who apparently killed his wife, ex-partner and his two sons before taking his own life in reaction to Donald Trump’s victory. Yes, he evidently had longstanding mental-health issues; we’ll never know how much of his final crisis came from marinating for years in the extremist, hateful rhetoric now common on the left....

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that former President Donald Trump’s words were “violence against women.” Host Jen Psaki said, “We saw violent language and it was not an anomaly as you know and everyone watching. He had a violent language when he was discussing Liz Cheney this week and would not be such a war hawk if she had guns in her face. His campaign double down on the language. I raise this, because he seems to know what he’s doing and we have seen this before. Do you think that he...

Former First Lady Melania Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” that the Democrat’s rhetoric about her husband, former President Donald Trump, was “terrible.” Co-host Steve Doocy said, “Mrs. Trump, you said that this campaign cycle feels like 2016 in the excitement and enthusiasm and things like that I would imagine but something is different and that is two different people tried to kill your husband and you saw it live on television. This is all different.” Trump said, “It is different. It is much more dangerous and I’m very vigilant and very selective of where I...

House Speaker Mike Johnson got into a testy exchange with CNN’s Jake Tapper over recent rhetoric from former President Donald Trump about the “enemy from within” as well as X-rated insinuations about golfer Arnold Palmer. Reacting to Trump’s tale about Palmer’s manhood while speaking at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Johnson (R-La.) countered that what matters to voters is their economic situation. “Everywhere I go, Jake, everybody has the same concerns,” Johnson, speaking from a campaign stop in Michigan ,told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “They’re fed up and they’re fired up about the cost of living that’s unaffordable...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he is running for the U.S. Senate because people are fed up with former President Donald Trump’s “divisive rhetoric.” Host Robert Costa said, “Former President Donald Trump, who in recent days on the campaign trail has attacked vice president harris and he’s said she has mental issues. he has said thing after thing, questioning her intelligence, her ability. Do you believe former President Donald Trump is fit for office or not?”

"Extinguish Trump for good." Those are the words of the sitting Secretary of Commerce to the viewers of MSNBC. "Extinguish." "For good." Seems very clear to me. BREAKING: Biden’s Secretary of Commerce just told Democrats to “extinguish Trump for good.” pic.twitter.com/vez1vMp7ud— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) September 25, 2024How about the current President of the United States miming the squashing of Donald Trump like a bug as he joins the harridans of The View? It's not quite the founder of The Lincoln Project actually calling on people to "put a bullet" in Donald Trump, but it's pretty obvious what he meant. Joe...

Actor Randy Quaid, a vocal Donald Trump supporter known for playing Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation series, has blamed Michelle Obama for both attempts to shoot the former president. "It's @MichelleObama who asked Twitter to ban Trump in 2019, it's she who started the hateful 'I fear Trump rhetoric,'" Quaid wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. "I blame her and Biden/Harris for both shootings." In another Tweet Quaid says: "The assassin probably had Michelle Obama on a loop saying "Do something!" "Do something!" "Do something!" "Do something!" Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with gun offenses following...

The Democrats working the hardest to put Kamala Harris in the Oval Office still argue that Trump could end democracy itself. Two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump have not clarified the Democratic position on whether that Republican represents an existential threat to democracy. The White House still calls him a threat. Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has mostly discarded that talking point. Trump wants it to stop either way. At least, when directed towards him. “It is time to stop the lies, stop the hoaxes, stop the smears, stop the lawfare or the fake lawsuits against me, and...

During an interview with ABC News on Friday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) responded to charges from Republicans that rhetoric about 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump might have led to the assassination attempts of Trump by stating that we should “look at the identities of these two deranged individuals who carried out these attacks.” And “Donald Trump inspired an attack on the Capitol on January 6. And the Republicans might want us to stop talking about that and what that means, but it’s a fact.”