Welcome to the beat. I'm Jason Johnson and for Ari Melber. We start with Donald

Trump intensifying his violent rhetoric. Surprise, seemingly threatening a

quote bloodbath if he doesn't win in 2024 while dehumanizing immigrants

and embracing the terrorists we tried to topple the government on January 6th.

And that was just just one weekend, the first full weekend since the general election

matchup became official and it all happened in the course of a single campaign

rally. Here's Trump and Ohio.

We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those cars. If I get elected, now if I don't get elected,

it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole,

that's going to be the least of it.

It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

That'll be the least of it.

But they're not going to sell those

cars. Trump's bloodbath comment comes amid a campaign in which he's vowed to be

a quote dictator to target rivals and to seek quote retribution. quote,

to target rivals and to seek, quote, retribution,

which is why his critics are skeptical of the campaign's cleanup effort.

Claiming Trump was just trying to say, quote,

Biden's policies would create an economic bloodbath

of the auto industry and auto workers but no one believes that the campaign is

forced to respond because the bloodbath comments are a big front page story in

newspapers and a lead story on major news tests.

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