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Septua

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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 09:23 AM Sep 2025

Trump hypocrisy [View all]

He has half the U.S. population afraid to disagree with him and wants to blame the "radical left" for political violence...

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5537187/trump-charlie-kirk-blames-left

"For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now," Trump said.


Trump said his administration would find "those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials and everyone else who brings order to our country."


His idea of law and order is a distorted version of reality.

Trump did not include any examples of political violence against Democrats, such as the June attack in Minnesota that killed a state lawmaker and left another wounded or the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She wasn't home at the time, but was the intended target.
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