Sarah Matthews said on Sunday that the former president uses rhetoric as a means to 'rile up' the loyal portion of his supporter base.
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary under Donald Trump, blasted the former president on Sunday for some of his comments that he made about President Joe Biden at the National Rifle Association Convention in Dallas.'If President Joe Biden was a Republican, he would have been given the electric chair, they would have brought back the death penalty,' Trump told the crowd on Saturday at the NRA's annual meeting.
'It isn't the first time Trump has made similar 'electric chair' remarks about his political adversaries. In 2022, Trump said he would be sentenced to the 'electric chair' if he faced the same corruption allegations that have been lobbed against President Biden and Hunter Biden.Newsweek reached out to the Trump and Biden campaigns via email Sunday morning. This story will be updated with any provided statements.
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