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Former President Donald Trump's remarks about there being a "bloodbath" if he loses may have just been a metaphor about the supposed decline of the American auto industry -- but former Bush speechwriter David Frum doesn't think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Appearing on CNN, Frum argued that the former president has a long history of stoking and encouraging political violence that makes his "bloodbath" comment impossible to overlook.

Trying to wrap her head around why Donald Trump would rant about a "bloodbath" in his Ohio speech on Saturday, considering his history of inciting violence, GOP campaign strategist Susan Del Percio stated that kind of language is a big turn-off to voters he will need in November.

Add to that, she claimed, maybe it is a sign that he is slipping mentally.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani predicted he would be disbarred and that it would help him "in heaven."

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Fox News host Howard Kurtz personally corrected former President Donald Trump after he claimed that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged."

"So, you know, we ended up winning, and we did much better in 2020," Trump told Kurtz in an interview that aired on Sunday. "We did. I did. You know, I did millions and millions of votes more in 2020. I did much better."

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Moving past Donald Trump's threats on Saturday of a "bloodbath" if he is not re-elected and additional comments he made about the next election being the last, the panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" noted the growing trend by the former president of not being able to finish a complete sentence.

After clips were shown from the Ohio rally, co-host Alicia Menendez pointed out to former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), "As you may have noticed, he had a lot of trouble completing thoughts."

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted Donald Trump after his former running mate said that people who committed crimes on Jan. 6 were "hostages" to the legal system.

During an interview on CBS's Face the Nation program on Sunday, host Margaret Brennan asked Pence if he agreed with Trump when he referred to the Jan. 6 criminals as "hostages and patriots" at a recent rally.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) let out an audible sigh on Sunday when he was asked whether Donald Trump would follow the U.S. Constitution if he is elected for a second term.

During a Sunday interview on NBC, host Kristen Welker noted that Trump had vowed to release people convicted of crimes for the attacks on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pushback from Donald Trump's campaign that his inflammatory "bloodbath" comments at a Saturday Ohio rally were limited to his talking about what would happen to the auto industry if he is not re-elected fell on deaf ears on MSNBC on Sunday morning.

The former president set off a firestorm late Saturday after a clip of him stating, "Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it," was posted to social media that did not include the context.

However, as Mother Jones editor and political analyst David Corn explained, the former president's use of "bloodbath" was intentional well beyond being directed at autoworkers in industrial Ohio,

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MSNBC "The Weekend" co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off the discussion by prompting Corn, "Look, Donald Trump's campaign says he was talking about an economic bloodbath — I don't know if I buy that — but that is in fact what the campaign said."

" Trump has always done this," Corn shot back. "We've been watching the show for over eight years now and others like myself have covered him for years and have seen it even longer. He uses these high-impact words that have either the direct or implicit tone of violence."

"January 6th, come down, it's going to be wild. Go to the Capitol and fight like hell'" he recalled Trump stating. "He says these things over and over again and he has actually used explicit violent language and telling his own people at rallies to beat the you know what out of protesters at these rallies."

"At this point in the game, trying to parse a word like bloodbath strikes me as being entirely absurd," he added. "In the same speech, he calls hundreds who beat up cops, unbelievable patriots. When he says the word bloodbath, he knows what he's doing, whether he means an economic bloodbath or something else in the same speech. He is endorsing political violence and when he says he'll never have another election if I don't win, well, that too, has a tone of violence to it as well."


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