Haberman calls out Trump's "Joe is shot" wording: Would get others visit from Secret Service

[highplainsdem]

if they said it about Trump.

I'll post her exact tweet below, but I want to point out first that this is at least the second time Trump's used this wording -- which is notable wording since I can't recall (and couldn't find by googling) any other instance of Trump using the word "shot" to insult someone. (Editing to note that Trump did tweet in July 2015 that Ruth Badere Ginsburg's "mind is shot" -- see this Politico article: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-resign-225460 -- but Trump has not been saying that Biden's "mind is shot." He's tweeted "Biden is shot" which summons up a very different image, especially given Trump's gun-crazy supporters and the fact that Trump otherwise uses the word "shot" to refer to shootings.)

I've edited this OP to include tweets from Frank Figliuzzi and Fred Guttenberg, at the bottom of the post.


Haberman's tweet, posted a few minutes ago:

Link to tweet

The focus is on the “white power” video but here the president uses language about his rival that could get some folks a visit from the USSS if they said it about Trump. “Corrupt Joe is shot.”

She was of course commenting on the Trump tweet responding to "the great people of The Villages" who were shouting "white power":

Link to tweet

Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!

Editing to add Frank Figliuzzi's tweet about that Trump tweet:

Link to tweet

Trump now openly acknowledging his new reelection slogan: “White Power” by praising those who say it. This is not a mistake, this is not a drill. “Corrupt Joe is shot”. Not good. #TrumpIsUnwell

Editing again to add Fred Guttenberg's reaction to the Trump tweet:

Link to tweet

The more I read this tweet, the more bizarre and concerning it becomes. He is starting to communicate like a terrorist. "Fall in the Fall" and "shot." @jack and @Twitter, are you paying attention? He is using your platform to incite future violence.

[agingdem]

1. so no more shrouding the dog whistles of violence

unambiguous call to his vile hate filled sychophants..take aim and don't miss..Secret Service?...nope...US Marshalls with handcuffs...

[lamp_shade]

2. Reported.

[malaise]

3. K & R

Twitter must remove it immediately - started this thread without seeing her tweet
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213666199

[highplainsdem]

6. Thanks for posting that. Here's the thread from June 15 where I posted about Trump's

earlier use of the word "shot" to refer to Biden. Note the replies about the questionable wording.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213596985

[malaise]

7. You were right

It must be removed

[orleans]

25. i just followed a link to the tweet

& it's down
"this tweet is unavailable"

[jalan48]

4. Great video of the Villages protest. nt

[hatrack]

5. Another distraction from the AOTUS

Don't look at Putin/Russia/our failure to deal with bounties offered for our soldiers.

Look over there, at White Power Golf Cart guy, look over there at stochastic threats against the Democratic nominee.

[Iliyah]

8. This is shithole's shout out to . . .

harm VP Biden, I have no doubt on that.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. Biden should have SS protection due to being the presumptive nominee

Didn't candidates start getting SS protection after RFK was murdered and Wallace nearly was?

Hey I was only 20 that year but I do think I remember that

[highplainsdem]

9. Kicking after editing the OP to include tweets from Frank Figliuzzi and Fred Guttenberg.

[Mike 03]

10. Reported. nt

[highplainsdem]

11. Retired CBS WH correspondent Peter Maer:

Link to tweet

Thanks to @PaulaReidCBS for flagging this. Just another reminder that all of his tweets are official presidential documents. This will go down in history as one of the worst. Trump retweets an angry vile confrontation among #Florida seniors and declares, "Corrupt Joe is shot."

[highplainsdem]

12. Actor Steven Weber:

Link to tweet

“Corrupt Joe is shot”

It is a purposefully provocative phrase masquerading as an innocent one.

Trump is fomenting violence.

#gethimgone

[mantis49]

13. I think it was taken down.

I tried to follow the link and it said the tweet was unavailable. I was going to report it.

[highplainsdem]

16. Just posted another OP about the deletion, with a link to the tweet with the video for those who

haven't seen it:


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213666632

[Ms. Toad]

14. He's apparently removed the tweet. N/t

[highplainsdem]

17. Yes. See reply 16 here. I've posted an OP linking to the tweet with video that Trump had posted,

so people can see it if they haven't already.

[Nasruddin]

23. I'm wondering if it's the new strategy

Peek-a-boo!

[Ms. Toad]

24. My guess is that is was taken down by the same folks

Who initially declared that his comment about testing wad a joke took it down to protect him from himself.

After all out was the"White House" that explained that the president hadn't heard the "white power" shout in the video.

[Frustratedlady]

15. My first thoughts, exactly. I think there was another, last week.

We aren't dealing with a normal person in Trump. He must be watched carefully. Cornered animal, in my opinion.

[highplainsdem]

18. Not quite two weeks ago. I posted about it then. See reply 6 for the link.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Not the first time he has called for an opponent to be shot.

Remember during the 2016 campaign, he called for his supporters to use the 2nd Amendment solution on Clinton. Trump embraces violence unless it is directed at him, at which point he cowers in the bunker or lets Secret Service agents whisk him off stage.

[highplainsdem]

26. Yep. ABC News story on what Trump said in 2016:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-2nd-amendment-folks-stop-clintons-supreme-court/story?id=41239648

[NBachers]

21. We know that this kind of messaging works, and results in death, carnage, and violence.

[Demsrule86]

22. I reported that tweet.

[louzke9]

27. This is the campaign message....

the Trump campaign is going to trot out before the election. "Only I, Donald J. Trump, can save YOU and KEEP your comfortable WHITE way of life SAFE from the brown-skinned THUGS and the Democrats!

[Martin Eden]

28. If "Joe is shot" on Fifth Avenue

We already know the #1 suspect.

[George II]

29. trump's tweet has now been deleted.

[Faux pas]

30. So tired of saying

kickin' with DISGUST!

[Lock him up.]

31. Maybe orangeviRu$$ia will tell putin to pay his snipers for it?

Link to tweet

Lock him up! (Who's Brave enough for just that?)

[Hekate]

32. Chilling. BTW thanks for including the texts of the tweets.

[gulliver]

33. She's right, but don't be distracted from Trump letting Putin put contracts out on our troops.