Trump's threatening everyone. From four out of four Judges in his legal troubles, to all members of Congress, to all his followers, to those who don't follow him, is behavior straight out of the Autocrats Handbook. When are the courts going to hold him accountable and lock him up for violating gag orders? Trump’s escalating violent rhetoric is straight out of the autocrat’s playbook https://www.theguardian.com/comment...calating-violent-rhetoric-autocratic-playbook
Yep... Trump is calling for his supporters to kill minority immigrants.... using words right out of the KKK playbook. Trump pushes envelope with comment on the ‘poisoning’ of U.S. ‘blood’ There’s nothing new about Donald Trump attacking those seeking a better life in the United States. But “poisoning the blood of our country” is new. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...xtremes-comment-poisoning-us-blood-rcna118976
Oh, Donnie Boy is so tough. 'He'd go down': Donald Trump says he could beat up Biden at Iowa rally https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-hed-go-down/
GOP donor known for racist tweet, American flag outfit dies in attempted murder-suicide https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-donor-known-racist-tweet-125659663.html A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — despite a racist tweet that put him on the outs with DeSantis’ predecessor, Rick Scott — shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a Palm Beach County restaurant, according to sheriff’s deputies. The activist, 72-year-old Steve Alembik, died. The woman, wounded in the back and arm, survived when she ran into the restaurant bleeding and was rushed to the hospital. The shooting happened at a Burgerfi outlet in Delray Beach a week ago Monday, although Alembik’s identity wasn’t revealed until last Friday in the Boca Raton News. The wounded victim was believed to be his wife. Over the past 20 years, Alembik, gave more than $200,000 in political contributions, mainly to Republicans, including thousands of dollars to both DeSantis and Donald Trump. The founder of a Boca Raton digital marketing company, the Democrat-turned-Republican earned notoriety in 2018 by referring to former President Barack Obama as a “f******* Muslim n*****” in a post on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter. At the time, DeSantis was running to replace Rick Scott as governor. Scott, term-limited out of the governor’s mansion, was vying for the Senate. Both had received contributions. The tweet, which Alembik later said he regretted, prompted Scott to pass along the $1,100 contribution from Alembik to charity. The DeSantis campaign and allied political action committees had both received contributions from Alembik. The PAC returned $11,000 but the campaign said $4,000 given separately had been spent in the primary and could not be refunded. DeSantis, running in the general election against former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, had ignited a racial controversy a month earlier by urging voters not to “monkey this up,” referring to the possibility of electing Gillum, who is Black. The DeSantis campaign team denounced the tweet and announced it would take no more money from Alembik in the future. But his campaigns have continued to accept Alembik contributions. The governor’s re-election campaign and a state political committee supporting that campaign, Friends of Ron DeSantis, together took in more than $5,000 from Alembik in 2021 and 2022, according to state records. Alembik, who describes DeSantis as one of his “close friends” in a post on LinkedIn, first attracted attention in the wake of Trump’s comments following a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left a counter-protester dead. After Trump insisted their were “many fine people” on both sides of the issue, mainstream charities pulled events from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Alembik, however, decided to move a charity gala for his newly formed pro-Israel nonprofit group, Truth About Israel, to Mar-a-Lago to help fill the void. “This president has had Israel’s back like no president has since the days of Ronald Reagan,” Alembik, who sometimes wore a red, white and blue flag costume, told the Washington Post. In total, Alembik has contributed more than $7,500 to committees supporting Trump. Then-congressman DeSantis was one of the featured speakers at the Mar-a-Lago event. Alembik worked with a promoter to push ticket sales on Chinese social media platforms by indicating that attendees would have access to the former president. Trump was never going to attend, however, because of the annual Governor’s Ball scheduled that same night. Unaware of that conflict, hundreds of Chinese nationals arrived, hoping to have their photo taken with the president. The event was glitch prone in other ways. Despite Jewish attendees, the hors d’oeuvres served around the pool contained non-kosher items. There was no seating chart, leading to arguments over the best seats. When a Herald journalist later approached Alembik to ask about the event, he told the reporter to “step out of this elevator before you get hurt.” In December 2018, Alembik was arrested by police on a domestic violence charge. The charge was dismissed via pre-trial diversion. Laura Loomer, a right-wing political activist who has run unsuccessfully for Congress, tweeted: “Sadly, those or us who knew Steve understood that he struggled with his mental health at times.” The Trump and DeSantis presidential campaigns did not respond to a request for comment.
Republican members of Congress have no backbone. They are cowards. But we already knew this. Mitt Romney Reveals Most Republicans Didn’t Impeach Trump Because They Feared Violent Attacks from His Supporters https://www.mediaite.com/politics/m...y-feared-violent-attacks-from-his-supporters/
Rumble host and X influencer Stew Peters calls for shooting Catholic Charities workers Peters also called for the murder of doctors who provide gender-affirming care https://www.mediamatters.org/stew-p...ers-calls-shooting-catholic-charities-workers Rumble host and X influencer Stew Peters called for the murder of Catholic Charities workers, stating that the best option to stop undocumented immigration is “shooting everyone involved” with the nonprofit. X has been monetizing Peters' account and placed an ad for the Philadelphia Eagles on Peters' post featuring video of him calling for violence. Peters, who has also hosted numerous Republican officials, additionally called for the murder of doctors who provide gender-affirming care. Peters is a white nationalist and antisemite who calls for the murders of his perceived enemies. He streams on Rumble, where he has more than 500,000 followers. Peters last month posted a segment calling for the execution of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. He recently praised Rumble after The Guardian reported that the Republican National Committee-backed platform allows him to post extremism, writing: “Rumble held the line and did NOT cave, staying true to their commitment to FREE SPEECH.” He also has a verified account on X (formerly Twitter) with more than 448,000 followers and uses that account to endorse the killings of politicians and LGBTQ advocates. Despite Peters’ background, numerous Republican politicians have appeared on his show, including U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Bob Good (R-VA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ); Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers; and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake. Robert F. Kennedy Jr also appeared on his show before he ran for president. Peters spoke at the ReAwaken America tour in Las Vegas this summer along with Donald Trump Jr., Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Michael Flynn, among others. On October 28, Peters attacked Catholic Charities USA while speaking at “Stew Peters’ Fall Fest,” which was sponsored by Goldco and others. He posted a stream of the speech on Rumble and X. The nonprofit, which Republicans have recently targeted for helping undocumented immigrants and are attempting to defund, states on its website that its “approach to migration is rooted in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching. … In addition to providing essential services to immigrants and refugees to the U.S., we also advocate for policies that protect family unity and allow newcomers to contribute to and more fully participate in their new communities.” Peters took the opposition effort even further during his speech by directly calling for people to murder employees of the group. After claiming that Catholic Charities helps “coach illegals on how to get admitted here,” he said: “We need troops on the border that will shoot people that are trying to invade our country. That'd be a good first step. But you know what a better second step would be? Shooting everyone involved with these fake charities.” (More at above url including videos)