The Daily Populous Saturday September 13rd, 2025 day edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Murky-Site7468

“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” Trump replied. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming in. We don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.’”

Trump concluded: “The radicals on the left are the problem.”

This exchange is being vastly overshadowed by the arrest of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old unaffiliated voter in Utah, for allegedly assassinating Kirk. But whatever more we learn about Robinson, this Trump moment mustn’t skate by unnoticed. Though Trump has encouraged right-wing political violence for years—including inciting a violent insurrection and pardoning hundreds of supporters for it—he has also been known to rhetorically denounce political violence from both sides at key moments, or has gone through the motions of doing so.

Murky-Site7468 on September 12nd, 2025 at 22:27 UTC »

“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” Trump replied. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming in. We don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.’”

Trump concluded: “The radicals on the left are the problem.”

Trump’s statement on Fox represents something new. “There’s never been a president in our lifetimes who has excused political violence on his own side,” Pape notes

avalonsdad69 on September 12nd, 2025 at 22:14 UTC »

Pardoning 100s of politically motivated, violent people does not lower the temperature or lessen the likelihood of more political violence

Alaska_Question on September 12nd, 2025 at 22:14 UTC »

Getting pretty tired of rightoids shooting each other and using it as an excuse to call for violence against me