Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he’s faced death threats after discussing the brutal hammer attack against Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“There have been more threats against elected officials. It’s been documented that I’ve received a few,” Schumer said during his Spectrum News NY1 debate against Republican rival Joe Pinion.
“We have to calm the rhetoric down,” he said at Union College in Schenectady, “and condemn violence where it occurs.” But Pinion slammed Schumer for using divisive rhetoric and encouraging violence against two conservative Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer had said in March 2020 the justices would“There is only one person on this stage whose rhetoric has quite literally driven an American to the doorstep of a Supreme Court justice to kill him. That was Chuck Schumer,” Pinion said.
Schumer said Sunday night, “The words I used that day were probably the wrong choice of words. I said that then and I say that now.”But he insisted that “I have never advocated violence in any way. Never have, never do, never will.”, also said the media has a “greater responsibility” to promote civil discourse and discourage heated rhetoric and condemn hatred and violence.is expected to make a “full recovery” after speaking several times to Speaker Pelosi.