.MaddowBlog: When President Trump raises the prospect of political violence, there’s a problem.
One of the first instances in which Donald Trump publicly broached the subject of political violence came in August 2016, at a campaign rally in North Carolina. Complaining about Hillary Clinton, the Republican presidential candidate said in an unscripted moment, “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.
This week, as the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale noted, Trump sat down with a far-right website called Breitbart.com, which asked about partisan divisions. The president replied: The fact that Trump has used similar rhetoric before does not make this any less alarming. On the contrary, the fact that he keeps returning to the topic suggests his earlier references to political violence weren’t random, accidental asides. This is, in other words, a subject that appears to be on the president’s mind.
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