Trump Escalates Threatening Rhetoric in Campaign’s Final Days

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

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Donald Trump on Thursday called former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk” who should have guns “trained on her face.” This has become increasingly typical of the rhetoric coming from the Trump campaign — a campaign Atlantic staff writer David Graham says is “premised around violence, disregard for the rule of law, and retribution for anyone who might disagree with him.” We’ll talk with Graham and experts on extremism and extremist rhetoric about the impacts of Trump’s threatening messaging. Guests: David Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects Jennifer Mercieca, professor, Department of Communication & Journalism, Texas A&M University; author, “Demagogue For President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.9	Over the weekend, Donald Trump mused about journalists
1:29.8	getting shot at a rally in Pennsylvania. Last Thursday in Arizona, he evoked an image of former
1:36.3	representative Liz Cheney with guns trained on her face. Trump's violent or vile rhetoric has
1:43.0	intensified in the final weeks of the election, as has the language of his allies, especially at a hate-filled Madison Square Garden rally a week ago.
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2:14.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In one of many examples this campaign of Donald Trump,
2:18.6	openly imagining violence against one of his political opponents, he evoked Representative Liz Cheney last week in a live interview with Tucker Carlson in Arizona.
2:24.3	She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrel shooting
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