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riversedge

(80,814 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 02:59 AM Aug 2023

ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.

I missed this earlier.





Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found:

12 cases of perpetrators who hailed Trump in the midst or after physically assaulting innocent victims.

18 cases, where perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others.

10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.

13 cases involved violent or threatening acts in defiance of Trump.

41 of the 54 cases reflect someone echoing presidential rhetoric.

ABC News could not find a single criminal case where an act of violence or threat was made in the name of Obama or W. Bush.

The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 54 cases are mostly white men – as young as teens and as old as 75 – while the victims largely represent an array of minority groups.

Trump has said he deserves "no blame" for what he called the "hatred" coursing through parts of the country.

I say he is full of it.
#DemVoice1 #FreshResists


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ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2023 OP
Although it shows pictures of 1/6 bottomofthehill Aug 2023 #1
Lock Him Up !! IbogaProject Aug 2023 #2

bottomofthehill

(9,390 posts)
1. Although it shows pictures of 1/6
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 04:32 AM
Aug 2023

It does not count the over 1000 people arrested so far who acted violently on 1/6. Many in court have claimed that they came and attacked on his orders. Thus, this number is way light.

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