Trump boasts he's 'busy beating up' foes as fears over violent rhetoric mount

Former President Donald Trump' boasted Monday he was busying "beating up" his foes even as fears mount that his political rhetoric will end in violence.

Trump's violent social media post appeared to have been triggered by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the subject of a two-post rant after he publicly criticized his party's presumptive presidential candidate late last month.

"I’ve been too busy beating up the Communists, Fascists, and Lunatics who have weaponized our Government against Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, to think much about him," Trump wrote Monday night. "This is not someone you want to be in a foxhole with - Very disloyal and not very smart."

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Cassidy fell out of Trumpworld following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol when he voted to convict President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection.”

“Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person," Cassidy stated at the time. "I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty."

In his Monday night post, Trump was more verbose.

"He campaigned in the Great State of Louisiana on TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, and was absolutely thrilled when he was able to get my very important Endorsement," Trump wrote Monday.

"Cassidy is a total 'stiff,' but Louisiana didn’t need him to protect them, because they had ME, 100%."

Cassidy, meanwhile, told NBC News' "Meet the Press" last month that he was deeply critical of Trump's messaging.

"The president’s rhetoric has reflected poorly," Cassidy said, "regarding folks who are coming here illegally — illegally — and they shouldn’t be, but in a dehumanizing fashion. And that’s why again, many people continue to have reservations.”

Trump's violent words also arrived about the same time Justice Juan Merchan filed his ruling restricting Trump's speech against the judge's own family in his New York City hush money case.

The ruling arrived after Trump publicly attacked Merchan's daughter and raised serious concerns that the young woman might face violent attacks from his supporters.

"It's very, very dangerous," one former prosecutor said, "particularly because this is a person, Donald Trump, who has millions of followers who read his social media postings."