'He knows what he's doing': Analyst smacks down Trump's pushback over 'bloodbath' outrage

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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