"Any American in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Keokuk, Iowa, or Fargo, North Dakota, who expresses a desire to “beat the hell” out of President Trump should expect a knock on the door from the Secret Service.
"Just to ask questions, you understand.
"But such violent rhetoric is becoming more common in the political arena, and Victor Davis Hanson warns in a Daily Signal column that there are “James Hodgkinsons” out there who turn those words into action.
"Hanson, a historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” cited one of the more prominent threats to Trump.
"That’s from Joe Biden, who said, “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
"Hanson noted that one year later, Biden “doubled down on his physical threats.”
"Biden stated: “The idea that I’d be intimidated by Donald Trump? … He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.”
"Whew!
“ 'Had former Vice President Dick Cheney ever dared to say something similar of President Barack Obama, what would the media reaction have been?” Hanson speculated." . . ..
"Just to ask questions, you understand.
"But such violent rhetoric is becoming more common in the political arena, and Victor Davis Hanson warns in a Daily Signal column that there are “James Hodgkinsons” out there who turn those words into action.
"Hanson, a historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” cited one of the more prominent threats to Trump.
"That’s from Joe Biden, who said, “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
"Hanson noted that one year later, Biden “doubled down on his physical threats.”
"Biden stated: “The idea that I’d be intimidated by Donald Trump? … He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.”
"Whew!
“ 'Had former Vice President Dick Cheney ever dared to say something similar of President Barack Obama, what would the media reaction have been?” Hanson speculated." . . ..
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