Rachel Maddow's Chronological Review Of Trump Rallies And Violent Rhetoric

Rachel Maddow at her best as she runs through Trump's rallies and rhetoric chronologically

Walter Einenkel

Rachel Maddow and her team decided to put together a chronological supercut of Donald Trump’s rhetoric during rallies, the rallies leading up until this weekend’s violence in Chicago after Trump’s postponed rally. Protest and the violence towards people protesting at Trump rallies has grown in intensity over the past few weeks. Maddow introduced the discussion of Donald Trump’s rhetoric from the podiums at his events by talking about how Trump has half-jokingly said, in the past, that he would cover audience members’ legal fees were they to be sued for attacking a protestor. But this has changed:

But this sort of bloodlust, right, this half tongue-in-cheek, mostly serious call for a tougher America, where there are more beatings...

 

She proceeds to show you a date-stamped crescendo of violent rhetoric coming from Donald Trump’s own blunt face. These are Trump’s statements to the crowd when protestors are being escorted from the premises. They include a run Trump did at a St. Louis event where he says, during a rally where protestors are being led away:

Trump: The reason it’s taking so long is because nobody wants to hurt anyone anymore, right? And they’re being politically correct the way they take them out. So it takes a little bit longer and honestly, protestors, they realize it. They realize that there are no consequences to protesting anymore…

Our country has to toughen up folks. We have to toughen up. These people are bringing us down—remember that—they’re bringing us down. These people are so bad for our country you have no idea.

I guess Trump is talking about how people don’t know about violence at protestsbecause of “political correctness”? He’s saying this is St. Louis, Missouri! Maddow drives it home at the end:

After the venue itself is full of thousands of people and they them all in and then they called it off and then they left and just let them fight it out. Literally fight it out. American presidential politics isn’t like this for anybody else. American presidential politics did not get this way on its own. This is the work of an american presidential candidate who deliberately made this happen and the Republican Party is about to nominate him for president.