Two attempts on former President Donald Trump's life have led to calls for toning down political rhetoric that potentially led to both instances of violence. Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) discussed these calls in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Bottom Line, saying Democrats and the left continue to use inflammatory rhetoric and accusing them of projecting the incitement onto Republicans.
Rep. Mills cited numerous instances of Democrats such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), President Joe Biden, and Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) making inflammatory comments that could easily be interpreted as calls to violence, such as Sen. Schumer's "whirlwind" remark in 2020 addressed to Supreme Court Justices Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, Biden's "put Trump in the bullseye" comment days before the first attempt on Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"So look, the same people, they give you their playbook through psychological projection. Anything that the Democrats are actually accusing Republicans of are the exact things that they are responsible for themselves, and I think that Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that President Donald Trump is not a threat to democracy. He took a bullet and nearly lost his life to try and protect democracy, and that is what we need to understand," said Rep. Mills, claiming Trump is running out of patriotism and noting that some outlets are trying to blame him for the violence inflicted upon him.
Co-host Sean Duffy noted that incendiary, dehumanizing rhetoric can lead to "cataclysmic" consequences, which the Florida Congressman suggested Democrats were doing "because they have nothing else to talk about. You cannot win on policy; you cannot win on the economy, crime, and foreign policy or border. You cannot win on those things, so they have got to go with '[Trump] is a threat' because that is all they have."
"It is like the old saying when a debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," Mills concluded.
