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On Point | Podcast

Is Donald Trump normalizing political violence in America?

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When Donald Trump suggested that General Mark Milley should be executed, it was the latest in a long line of violent rhetoric from the former president.

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0:00.0

This is on point, I'm Megna Chacrabardi. Since 2015, Donald Trump has steadily

0:11.4

amped up the violence of his political rhetoric. For example, on the campaign trail back

0:17.8

in February of 2016, a fight broke out between a Trump supporter and an anti-Trump protester

0:25.6

at a Las Vegas campaign rally. After police broke up the fight, Trump said,

0:31.2

You know what I hate? There's a guy totally disruptive throwing punches. We're not allowed to punch back

0:38.8

anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a

0:43.5

place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. A few minutes later, Trump added that

0:49.6

he would like to, quote, punch the protester in the face. Well, that was several years ago,

0:55.7

but month after month, Trump has escalated. Talk about jailing opponents, joking about shooting

1:04.1

looters, professing his love for the mob that violently attacked Congress on January 6th.

1:12.0

And late last month, Trump posted a screed on Truth Social, his social media network.

1:19.2

And in it, he excoriated General Mark Milley for making a phone call to reassure Chinese leaders

1:25.6

after the January 6th Capitol attack. In fact, the call was explicitly authorized by Trump

1:32.8

administration officials. But in his recent post, Donald Trump railed that Milley's call was

1:39.2

quote, an act so egregious that in times gone by, the punishment would have been death.

1:47.6

Now, Trump's most ardent supporters quickly embraced and repeated the former president's

1:53.0

unprecedented call to execute a former chair of the nation's joint chiefs of staff.

2:00.4

These are Trump supporters just this past weekend at an Iowa rally.

2:04.6

It's treason is treason. There's only one here for treason.

2:10.3

Now, what is that being put to death treason treason and we use to

2:15.4

execute or imprison people for and all the treasonous actions I see now in this day and age is just

2:23.5

thrown underneath the rug. You know, Trump's feelings about Mark Milley and I agree. Why was he not

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