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The former president shared a video of a truck that featured a picture of a seemingly helpless Biden with his hands and feet tied up.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew criticism Friday for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign was quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
“All the shooter did was pull the trigger. If you want to blame someone, blame the ammunition producers and the individual that sold it to them.”
In this case, Trump is not the shooter. He’s sharing a picture of the shooter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
A famously not illegal form of protected speech (it should be illegal but it isn’t)… which doesn’t fit this scenario since the violence is very clearly targeted at Biden and not at all vague.
Wrong again. The implication is that Trump is sharing a picture in support of the shooter.
It’s dangerous and despicable.
How fucking stupid you are being.
Did Trump produce the image? Well, no.
Did Trump photograph the image? No.
Did Trump put the image on his vehicle? No.
He shared an image someone else sent him. That’s not the same thing at all.
Should the folks making it and putting it on their trucks get a talking to? Yeah, probably.
This is just the Trump equivalent of senile granddad “Fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: re: re: re: I LOLD”
Senile grandad doesn’t have a cult following who have already demonstrated their willingness to commit violent acts for him.
While true, that doesn’t make Trump responsible for the image.
I didn’t say he is.
But this is absolutely a “meddlesome priest” situation and I doubt you’d argue that Henry was innocent in that case.
No. No it’s not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
I am aware of the term, in THIS case, the image and sentiment pre-dates Trump’s involvement.
No doubt he’s EXPLOITING it, but he didn’t CREATE it.