“Explain to mom that you tried to take on very powerful people, and many of them physically as well as mentally,” Trump said. At another rally, Trump said of a protester that he’d like to “punch him in the face.”After several incidents in which protesters at Trump rallies were assaulted, Trump modified his language. Cesar Sayoc, the man who mailed inert pipe bombs to Democratic politicians and members of the media last year, was a Trump supporter, and Trump’s rhetoric was similarly identified as one causal factor in his actions. ADADAs it turns out, Trump’s rhetoric was the focal point of the protesters in Pittsburgh. Immigrants, in the alleged shooter’s description, were “invaders” — language that Trump himself used both before and after the shooting.

Source: Washington Post October 24, 2019 14:04 UTC