President Donald Trump has consistently debased his office while in the White House. While tens of thousands of Americans have died due to the Coronavirus, he has congratulated himself for a supposed job well done in responding to the crisis and insisted that anyone who dared to launch even the slightest challenge to his nonsense was some kind of nefarious political conspirator. This Thursday, Hillary Clinton condemned the president in the wake of some of his latest nonsense, which included a retweet this week of a video that begins with the insistence that the “only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
Chilling that Trump shared video w/ 80million followers of someone saying “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
This is more than background noise to an imploding presidency. Hatred endangers us all- esp. communities who’ve long been targeted by his dehumanizing attacks.
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) May 28, 2020
Clinton shared:
‘Over the last 24 hours, the 100,000th American died of COVID-19 on Trump’s watch. He’s spent the last 24 hours sharing videos that begin “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” while complaining Twitter’s censoring him. We need a real president.’
Over the last 24 hours, the 100,000th American died of COVID-19 on Trump’s watch.
He’s spent the last 24 hours sharing videos that begin "The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat" while complaining Twitter’s censoring him.
We need a real president. https://t.co/bqnPUACScf
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 28, 2020
Clinton, for her part, has made her perception of who constitutes a “real president” abundantly clear. She, like many other prominent Democrats, has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as the general election approaches. Biden, for his part, was there in the Obama administration when the then-president’s team developed the pandemic response plans that the Trump administration ignored and cast aside. He has documented experience, which contrasts dramatically with Trump’s own consistent failures.
The President retweeted a video that opens with a man saying, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
Donald Trump is putting targets on Americans backs, fomenting violence and hate, and his words are killing people. In El Paso. In Dayton. In Charlottesville.
158 days. https://t.co/GRZtwT4UHN
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 28, 2020
In the original video that Trump retweeted talking about “dead Democrats,” which was originally posted by a Twitter account going by “Cowboys for Trump,” the speaker insists that they mean to advocate for dead Democrats in a “political sense” because the Democratic agenda is “anti-American.” That’s a ludicrous statement — death is not exactly an ambiguous concept. You can’t say you wish for dead Democrats and then say, oh, well, you don’t actually mean that. The Trump supporter said it — and the president retweeted it.
Trump RTed this video in which a supporter says "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat."
He clarifies he's not talking literally. But he told Daily Beast on Weds that some Dems might be guilty of treason and should get "a firing squad" or "the rope."https://t.co/mPu7xKx3b4 https://t.co/jDqPzxyuoG
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) May 28, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to Hillary below:
