Murphy: Trump on 'deliberate campaign to make violence more likely'
Source: Politico
12/14/2025 10:26 AM EST Updated: 12/14/2025 12:22 PM EST
Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday accused President Donald Trump of a deliberate campaign to make violence more common across the country, just hours after a gunman was taken into custody in connection to a shooting at Brown University.
Speaking to host Dana Bash on CNNs State of the Union, the Connecticut Democrat highlighted Trump shuttering the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the administrations cuts to bipartisan gun violence prevention grants.
He has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely in this country, and I think youre unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America, Murphy said.
In a statement on Sunday, the White House accused Murphy of spreading lies. Before spreading these lies, Chris Murphy should take a look in the mirror, spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told POLITICO. Chris and his colleagues have regularly used rhetoric meant to incite their followers to violence, including smearing ICE officers as Nazis and calling their political opponents fascists.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/14/chris-murphy-trump-deliberate-campaign-violence-00690030
It's not a "smear". It's a historical fact. History that they are trying their darnedest to erase.
wolfie001
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(44,448 posts)Smearing Ice Officers. And you would object to calling trump a convicted felon as a smear. Ice Officers are hired thugs doing the bidding of a man who has no shame or integrity. You work for him Abigail, you have no shame or integrity either. Its kinda by design huh? You wouldnt have gotten the job otherwise.
Norrrm
(3,780 posts)"incite their followers to violence"
Trump forgets Jan6?
yellow dahlia
(4,159 posts)vapor2
(3,584 posts)trump's comments on a firing squad for Liz Cheney? Recent threats re: Marjorie Taylor Greene? Or he doesn't care if Hegseth kills people who are shipwrecked AND no proof of drugs ? Or recent threats re: the Dems whose video said the military has the right to not obey ILLEGAL orders? So many more violent rhetoric by this madman. BTW, there are nazi's in this regime who starve children, remove millions from healthcare, dismantle the agencies that provide for all of us.