Dangerous Rhetoric & Political Violence
2008
2008-08-24 Three white supremacists attempted to assassinate Obama. The alleged motive was a belief that an African American should not be elected President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_assassination_plot_in_Denver
2008-10-27 Two white supremacists were arrested after plotting to murder Obama and then carry out a racially motivated killing spree.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/law-july-dec08-obamaplot_10_27
2010
2010-03-01 SarahPAC published a map placing crosshairs over Democratic congressional districts with the slogan “Reload”.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/media/sarah-palin-testifies-new-york-times
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/g-s1-62157/new-york-times-alaska-governor-sarah-palin-libel
2011
2011-01-08 Representative Gabby Giffords and 18 others were shot at a “Congress On Your Corner” event in Tucson. Six people were killed, including a
2011-01-11 Sarah Palin rejected claims that her political rhetoric contributed to the Giffords shooting, calling the accusations “blood libel.”
2011-11-11 Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired a semi-automatic rifle at the White House in effort to assassinate Obama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama
2015
2015-01-01 By this year, Obama had been through at least eleven (11) attempted assassinations or plots.
https://theweek.com/politics/president-assassination-attempts-us-history
2016
2016-08-09 During a campaign rally in Wilmington NC, Trump remarked “maybe the Second Amendment supporters should ‘do’ something about Hillary Clinton”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SawH2FJ4Q
2017
2017-06-14 A gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball practice in Virginia, targeting Republican lawmakers.
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/majority_report_of_baseball_shooting.pdf
2017-08-11 During a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville a white supremacist drove into counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack
2018
2018-02-05 During a speech Trump accused Democrats of treason.
LINK REMOVED? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-tax-reform-4/
2018-10-01 Bill Clinton survived at least 5 assassination attempts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
2020
2020-06-01 Law enforcement used excessive force to remove racial justice protestors from Lafayette Square. Trump asked if he could order law enforcement to “just shoot” the protestors.
https://www.acludc.org/lafayette-square-attack-timeline/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/esper-trump-protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary
2020-06-28 Mark and Patricia McCloskey pointed firearms at protesters outside their Missouri home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_gun-toting_incident
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53891184
2020-08-25 Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protesters during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was acquitted on all charges including first-degree intentional homicide and later received support from many conservatives. Reports later stated Kash Patel assisted in efforts to pursue lawsuits on Rittenhouse’s behalf.
https://www.aclu-wi.org/justice-jacob-blake/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting
2020-12-15 After Biden won Trump posted, “This Fake election can no longer stand. Get moving Republicans”.
2020-12-19 Trump posted, “Big protest in D.C on january 6th Be there, will be wild!”
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tweets-december-19-2020
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-january-6-univision-town-hall/
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/january-6-committee-hearing-trump-extremists/
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/13/trump_summoned_mob_after_unhinged_meeting
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62140410
2021
2021-01-04 Nick Fuentes said on his podcast, “What can you and I do to a State legislator – besides kill them? We should not do that. I’m not advising that, but I mean, what else can you do, right?”. This comment was made while talking about officials who refused to overturn 2020 election results.
A private account on X has posted the video, but due to the account being private their link will not be shared here.
2021-01-06 Tucker Carlson allegedly texted a producer about J6, “A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson texted a producer. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it”.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/media/tucker-carlson-text-message
https://x.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1653582329233670147
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/media/murdoch-response-adl-tucker-carlson/index.html
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html
2021-06-24 An OAN host repeated election-fraud claims and suggested “traitors” who stole the election should be executed
2022 May
2022-05-24 George W. Bush survived at least 2 assassination attempts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
2022 June
2022-06-08 Nicholas Roske was arrested for attempting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and later pleaded guilty.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/brett-kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-plea-00278743
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/california-resident-jailed-brett-kavanaugh
2022 October
2022-10-01 Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter researchers reported increases in impersonation, misinformation, and hate speech. Elon Musk also allowed users to pay their way for their blue check verification.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/study-finds-persistent-spike-in-hate-speech-on-x/
2022-10-28 Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer in his home. Charlie Kirk responded to the Pelosi attack on his podcast, “…why is the Conservative movement to blame for gay schizophrenic nudists that are hemp jewelry makers breaking into somebody’s home…” and then urged a “brave patriot” to post bail for the suspect.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/paul-pelosi-attack
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOjDtdUDi3Q/
2023
2023-09-29 Trump mocked the attack on Paul Pelosi during a California GOP event.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/user-clip-trump-mocks-paul-pelosi-attack/5124885
2024 February
2024-02-23 At CPAC, Kash Patel called for building an “army” to help Trump fight the media, the deep state, education systems, and border policies
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/kash-patel-speaks-at-cpac/638926
2024 March
2024-03-16 Trump said during a campaign rally in Vandalia Ohio, “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole – that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars”.
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/2024/03/17/65f6f8c946163f0d418b456a.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bloodbath-loses-election-2024-rcna143746
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453
2024-03-28 Trump shared an image of a truck mural depicting President Biden bound and gagged. In a statement, Michael Tyler said, “Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously”.
2024 July
2024-07-13 This was the first assassination attempt on Trump in Butler PA. Ryan Routh, the convicted assailant who attempted to assassinate Trump, later attempted to stab himself in the neck after being found guilty September 23, 2025. One of the MAGA followers constructed a statue of Trump out of nails.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/closing-arguments-set-trial-ryan-routh-accused-kill/story?id=125833927
2024 October
2024-10-31 During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump called Liz Cheney a radical war hawk and stated, “let’s put her with the rifles standing there with nine barrels shooting at her” and “let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face”.
2024 November
2024-11-03 During a rally, Trump encouraged deadly violence, “to get me someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/03/donald-trump-rally-fake-news-00186979
2024-11-06 Mike Davis wrote on Twitter “I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall”.
https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1854200785975775609
2025 January
2025-01-10 Lucy Harrison was shot in the chest with a semi-automatic handgun by her father in Prosper Texas after an argument about Trump. The father was never charged, stating the gun went off accidentally.
https://www.thecut.com/article/what-we-know-about-lucy-harrisons-death.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no
2025 February
2025-02-09 Following large federal workforce firings from DOGE a Tesla was set on fire at an Albuquerque showroom
2025 March
2025-03-18 Arsons set fire to a Tesla showroom in Las Vegas.
2025-05-26 Violent rhetoric from posts made by Trump emboldened activists to threaten judges after courts ruled ending the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and tariffs illegal. Judges received death threats, bomb threats, malicious swat calls, doxxing, and they were posted on a wanted poster at the White House entitled “Known Get-Trump Judicial Activists”. See Trump posts May 26, 2025 at 7:22AM (search “SCUM”) and March 18, 2025 at 9:05AM (search “LUNATIC”).
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114573871728757682
2025 April
2025-04-13 Arsons set fire to Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s home.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/us/pennsylvania-governor-josh-shapiro-arson
2025 June
2025-06-14 Minnesota House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated attack. Investigators found a manifesto targeting other public officials. Senator Mike Lee mocked the murder in a post two days later.
https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/18843
2025-06-14 Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot in a politically motivated attack by a suspect posing as a police officer
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/04/sen-john-hoffman-speaks-about-his-shooting-hortman-murder
2025-06-16 Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee mocked the murder of Melissa and Mark Hortman in a social media post on X. The post was captioned with “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way” and a second post “Nightmare on Waltz Street”. The posts have since been taken down.
2025-06-17 After the politically motivated assassinations Trump refused to contact Tim Walz, saying, “I think the governor is so whacked out, why would I call him”, “the guy doesn’t have a clue, he’s a mess”, and “why waste time”.
2025 July
2025-07-20 Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting Barack Obama being arrested.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887992924632896
2025 September
2025-09-12 Three Democratic Oregon state senators received bomb threats following the Kirk shooting: Rob Wagner, Kayse Jama, and James Manning.
2025-09-21 At Charlie Kirk’s memorial, Trump said, “I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.”
2026 January
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpe9YceyyQ
https://newrepublic.com/post/208362/stephen-miller-orders-ice-alex-pretti-death
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html
2026-01-27 Representative Ilhan Omar was attacked by a far-right activist during a town hall. Trump later claimed the incident had been staged.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/politics/ilhan-omar-trump-conspiracy-theory
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-faces-federal-assault-charge-attack-rep-ilhan/story?id=129675896
2026-01-30 Florida Republican James Fishback said that Don Lemon was “lucky that he’s not getting executed in the public square”.
ABOUT FISHBACK https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/james-fishback-radical-rights-great-white-hope
FISHBACK PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOVEIliJ3dM
2026 March
2026-03-12 A synagogue in Michigan was attacked.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/michigan-synagogue-shooting-03-12-26
2026-03-12 One person was killed and two more were wounded at ROTC Old Dominion University after a gunman with a history of political violence opened fire.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/15/us/mohamed-bailor-jalloh-old-dominion
2026-03-17 Pastor Brooks Potteiger prayed for James Talarico’s death during a podcast. 2026-03-25 James Talarico responded to pastor Brooks Potteiger’s death wish. On March 25th Talarico wrote, “Jesus loves. Christian Nationalism kills. You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you. I love you more than you could ever hate me”.
Potteiger: ”…public enemies. These are the orcs at the gate. You’re not called to love the barbarian horde that is planning to break into your city and – you know – pillage, plunder, rape, and mutilate you and your people. You don’t love that horde. That is your enemy! And you pray! This is where you have imprecatory Psalms. This is where you pray strongly. The Psalmnist [not a word] is not shy. God, destroy them! Make them as dung on the ground…I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ. That’s the first thing…”
Host: ”We want him crucified…with Christ..”
Potteiger: “That’s exactly right!”
Host: ”I want him to be I think Saul of Tarsus, Talarico of Tarsus. That’s what I want. Who would say I was holding the garments while they stoned Steven, and now I’m the – yeah – that’s, that’s what we want.”
Potteiger: “Yes. We want death and new life, right? Um, and if it would not be within God’s will to do so, stop him by any means necessary, oh God.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvb1g0BGb8&list=WL&index=2
https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/1rwg6ya/joshua_haymes_brooks_potteiger_pete_hegseths/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2LhGaW2C44&list=WL&index=4
2026-03-26 Hegseth delivered a Pentagon sermon invoking God’s role in war, prayed for eternal damnation and overwhelming violence in the name of God and claimed the United States was righteous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqVj3G0cmA&list=WL&index=11&t=215s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NrJU2aqGvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZ6A5Wmy00
2026 April
2026-04-14 The same DOJ that wants to fire people for speaking out about Charlie Kirk or deport people for protesting genocide MOVED TO VACATE the most serious J6 convictions by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, making it as though these most severe crimes never even happened.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/doj-moves-vacate-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers/story?id=132042992
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g-s1-117473/justice-department-toss-seditious-conspiracy
2026-04-25 Another assassination attempt targeting Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This time people speculated it was staged, and the Trump administration used it as a reason for continuing the ballroom project.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/g-s1-118807/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/25/politics/trump-rushed-white-house-correspondents-dinner
2026-04-29 Trump posted an AI image of himself holding an assault rifle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYypemF9ULo
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gun-iran-peace-deal-11891398
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/trump-machine-gun-post-threatens-blow-up-iran-966354-20260429
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-gun-picture-iran-37085084
2026 May
2026-05-01 During a speech in Florida, Trump accused political opponents of treason for saying the United States was not winning in Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG3M63ISqYU&t=101s
2026-05-18 A shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
2026-05-20 Army veteran Kerry Sheron was assaulted outside his Trump-themed home and later died from his injuries.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5894988-escondido-trump-house-attack/
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/army-veteran-dies-escondido-trump-house/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/veteran-owner-iconic-trump-house-dies-vicious-alleged-beating-stranger-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIP177C73Hc&list=WL&index=8
2026-05-22 Secret Service shot and killed an armed man outside the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWzhhh9UJg&list=WL&index=2
2026 June
2026-06-14 People were arrested for planning to incite a revolution at the White House UFC fight. One person charged had confirmed affiliation with a Christian extremist group, sympathizing with Hitler, and homicidal ideations.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/politics/fbi-arrests-ufc-fight
[https://www.espn.com/mma/story//id/49081439/fbi-arrests-suspects-planned-attacks-white-house-ufc-event](https://www.espn.com/mma/story//id/49081439/fbi-arrests-suspects-planned-attacks-white-house-ufc-event)
2026-06-26 Pete Buttigieg and his family were targeted in a politically motivated hoax when someone called Child Protective Services to separate him from his children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K-dSupVmnA&list=WL&index=4
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-buttigieg-says-his-family-targeted-false-report-michigan-cps/
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5872821/pete-buttigieg-cps-police-swatting
2026 July
2026-07-08 Salem Media Partners released a taxpayer-funded movie By Dawn’s Early Light that chastises non-Trump supporters and claims systemic bias against Christians during the Biden administration. Salem Media Partners also promoted election fraud claims in their other movie 2000 Mules.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt42950619/
https://baptistnews.com/article/taxpayer-funded-by-dawns-early-light-woos-trumps-evangelical-base/
2026-07-17 A Colorado prison guard shot a protester.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/colorado-ice-employee-arrested-shooting-protester
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-ice-shooting-protester/
2026-07-20 A suspect was arrested after lighting fireworks near a NYC federal building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGhgrCelw&list=WL&index=2&t=51s
2026-07-20 Tom Homan told reporters, “I’m afraid that we’re going to bury an ICE agent”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_6jiz2D1ho&list=WL&index=1&t=10s
2026-07-23 The man who killed Melissa and Mark Hortman was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. The suspect left behind 3 assault rifles, a handgun, and a hit list containing the names of dozens of people including prominent Democrats and abortion providers and advocates.