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Many of Trump’s targets in Congress and the government have disclosed having to take on private security after threats from the presidential candidate’s supporters
Critics say he hit a new low last week with comments about illegal immigrants so extreme that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, saw echoes of Nazi rhetoric. The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt told MSNBC television that Trump appeared to have been fed the line by someone familiar with Hitler’s infamous complaint of Jews “causing a blood poisoning of Germany.”Trump’s exhortations to violence are nothing new — he suggested that protesters should be “roughed up” at a rally in 2016 and that looters should be shot during the 2020 racial protests over the police murder of George Floyd.
Trump’s inflammatory remarks used to shock America, generating days of coverage. His language no longer raises the stir it once did in a fatigued political and media establishment watching him cruise to the Republican nomination as the 2024 presidential election candidate. Trump has also repeatedly described the attorneys leading the multiple civil and criminal cases he faces as “monster,” “deranged” and “psycho.” African American legal officials, he says, have been “racist.”The 77-year-old is often accused by opponents of “stochastic terrorism” —an academic term meaning the public demonization of perceived adversaries to incite statistically probable but individually unpredictable acts of violence.
“Violent rhetoric leads to violent actions. And so this isn’t dangerous, it’s explosive,” he told MSNBC. “It’s like lighting a fuse and just waiting for the bomb to go off.”
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