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.
"Trump's brain is a little bit like pudding: Things swap around in it and don't cohere into any precise shape. But I looked it up in the past 12 months... former President Trump has threatened violence in one form or another, at least five times that I can count on his Truth Social, with images of him putting a baseball bat at the head of the New York D.A., he's threatened death and destruction if he's not elected."
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And it's because of this, argues Frum, that Americans shouldn't pay heed to Trump supporters who claim the former president was taken out of context.
"If this had come out of the blue, you might say, 'Okay, the pudding brain has spat out something formless,'" he said. "But five times, this is this would be the sixth incident of a call for violence in the past year. So I think at the point you have to say, if you're predicting 'death and destruction' if you lose, if you're saying there's going to be bedlam if you lose, if you invite your supporters to go after the New York attorney general, when you then say there will be a 'bloodbath' if you lose, you lose the benefit of the doubt because there's a pattern here that goes back a year."
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