World Tribune, by Staff — August 4, 2019
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“One trait of the Democratic field of presidential candidates is always to sound further to the left than any of their primary rivals,” columnist Victor Davis Hanson noted.
“Apparently, a similar habit is to see who can most effectively imagine beating up the president,” Hanson wrote for American Greatness on July 31.
“Hollywood and the entertainment industry have been in constant competition to imagine the most gruesome way of killing off Trump — stabbing, blowing up, burning, shooting, suffocating, decapitating or beating,” Hanson wrote.
According to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, there were 23 prosecutions for threats against President Donald Trump or those in the presidential line of succession last year, a 130 percent increase over 2017, when there were 10.
Hanson listed some of the notables who have encouraged violence against the president:
- Joe Biden: In March 2018, Biden huffed, “They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.” A year later, he doubled down on his physical threats. “The idea that I’d be intimidated by Donald Trump? … He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.”
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