Trump is 'inciting political violence' sharing Biden hog-tied video: Biden campaign

President Joe Biden’s campaign on Saturday excoriated former President Donald Trump for sharing a video on social media depicting what appears to be an image of Biden tied up and kidnapped in the back of a pickup truck.

“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by,’” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement to ABC News.

Earlier this month, while discussing the American auto industry, Trump said there would be a “bloodbath” if he did not win the presidential election in November, a comment that garnered swift backlash from Biden himself.

Trump and his campaign said that he meant a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry, and Trump quickly fundraised off claims his political opponents are spreading misinformation about his remarks.

“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” Tyler added in his statement.

Schadrach,

For reference, this article actually has the video Trump posted that we’re talking about, rather than just vague descriptions: telegraph.co.uk/…/donald-trump-joe-biden-truck-vi…

HootinNHollerin,

Please fucking do something about it, Department of inJustice

Schadrach,

About what? Have you seen the video in question?

Here: telegraph.co.uk/…/donald-trump-joe-biden-truck-vi…

The Telegraph article includes the actual video from Trump’s Truth Social feed, instead of just vaguely alluding to it. Short version is it’s video of a couple of pickup trucks covered in pro-Trump, pro-police crap, and the second one has one of those tailgate decals showing Biden bound and gagged that you sometimes see in very red areas.

That’s what we’re talking about, and there’s no way it’s not well within the bounds of 1A protected speech.

blazera,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

they should really tell whoever’s in charge of enforcing these laws

AlbertSpangler,

Remember when there was that anonymous -written open letter from someone inside the Trump administration, assuring everyone that we needn’t worry as grown ups were keeping everything stable and stopping him destroying alliances and the rules of law on idiotic whims?

Don’t know why, but I suddenly remembered that today. Don’t think it worked.

rayyy,

Trump and his campaign said that he meant a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry

The orange mobster likes using violent imagery - that’s his M.O - stochastic terrorism, and his cult base eats it up. He insinuated there would be a bloodbath if he was elected too. He wants to Make America Go Away and install himself as supreme leader like Putin.

LEDZeppelin,

Evangelicals: “he is even better than Jesus”

verdantbanana,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

we need better candidates running but the democrats and republicans have the country locked in and has everybody fooled

this election has turned into a sham involving two candidates bashing each other back and forth

pure election theater designed to stir up the rank and file voters

fluxion,

We certainly have a better candidate than Trump. We can work on finding a better one after we deal with Putin Jr.

verdantbanana,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

that is what everybody said the last time and the time before that and the time before that

it has been afterwards for a hot minute and the corpse is in the process of putrefaction

politicalincorruption,
@politicalincorruption@lemmy.world avatar

Many people sat out the 2016 election…

Is that your suggestion, or do you have a better plan?

TehWorld,

Trolls don’t really need a plan…

verdantbanana,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

the workers of the US who the elites depend on would have to call out at least for day

if enough citizens revolted by not working just one day that would certainly start an upset

imagine if Biden or Trump’s leash holders started hemorrhaging resources and their stocks plunged

flamingarms,

Collective action can certainly be powerful. But your plan seems to have some pretty glaring holes. Strikes aren’t protected in the US for non-work-related issues, are they? And you’d have to decide when the strike ends, i.e. when a “good” candidate is proposed, which everyone will have different opinions on. Seems to me the better move would be to be pushing for a rework of the voting system into one that allows voting for other parties without throwing away a vote.

TommySalami,

There are over a hundred million working adults in the US, and all of them with their own opinions and needs. Many of them completely out of touch with the world outside of their bubble, and some who even approve of the current trajectory. The idea of organizing a generalized strike is a complete pipe dream. I’d love to see it, but we are nowhere even close to that. We must work with reasonable, attainable solutions.

docAvid,

To confirm and expand on what others are saying: a general strike is not protected, and any union that endorses one will lose their recognition. How can you get that many people to risk their jobs, with no organizing union that can even legally participate?

If you can get that many people that dedicated to your cause, it would be a whole lot easier to just get them to vote in a primary.

IMongoose,

Trump: I wish to see the current president and his supporters dead and replaced by a dictator, me.

Biden: Are you guys listening to this?

Yes, these are the same.

verdantbanana,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

yes agree these are different makes and models of vehicles

but the destinations of the vehicles are the same

until the citizens are able to come out with a vehicle of their own the destination now is corporate US led by elite puppet masters commanding their marionettes that wear red or blue shirts from on high and two different camps of citizens blindly throwing praise to their camp’s leaders who are the marionettes of the corporations all the while in the fringes between the camps lives the disenfranchised citizens shunned by both camps hungry and tired and just wanting things other than empty promises and gestures to sustain them and a place to call home that they feel they could contribute to and thrive

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

The destinations are not the same. You can’t make such broad statements and then completely ignore evidence that contradicts your statements. Biden is proposing a higher elite tax. That takes out your corporations. Disenfranchised citizens? He’s forgiving student debt. plus helping with healthcare and not spewing nonsense about how he was cheated out of a win and is a con man with so many court cases against him that it could be a book on its own.

These could not be more opposite of each other. The only way it’s the same is the citizens. We are all heading there together.

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