Trump’s 'violent' rhetoric is having real-life consequences: columnist
Critics of former President Donald Trump have been warning that his violent rhetoric — for example, suggesting that former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley deserves to be executed and joking about a violent attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi — could have real-life consequences. Liberal Philadelphia Inquirer opinion columnist Will Bunch cites a recent incident in New Mexico as an example.
In that state, Ryan Martinez — a 23-year-old Trump supporter — got into a heated argument at a Native American rally, where he was a counterdemonstrator.
After someone knocked a red MAGA hat off Martinez's head, Bunch notes in his October 1 column, the New Mexico resident "pulled out a handgun and began shooting, striking and wounding an out-of-state environmental activist and member of the Hopi tribe named Jacob Johns."...