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Saturday 20th of April 2024

Dead-in-the-heads So, you got a group there, a lynching mob, so let them do their job and, boy, we're ready to knock the heck out of you with our [whose?] report, which will be authoritative. Rudy Giuliani, comparing Mueller's investigators to a lynch mob for doing what the law obligates them to do – investigate Russian interference in American elections and posible obstruction of justice by Trump  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Free speech Get him out. Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court. Donald Trump, telling his supporters to remove a critic from his rally, February 29, 2016, Warren, MI and elsewhere © 2016 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Try to impeach him [Trump], just try it. You will have a spasm of violence in this country, an insurrection, like you've never seen. The people will not stand for impeachment. A politician that votes for it would be endangering their own life. Rober Stone © 2017 Kwiple.com
Mob bosses say IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMIG AFTER YOU! Donald “Orange Don” Trump, a.k.a. “The Defendant,” @realDonaldTrump Aug 04, 2023 – 4:49 PM © 2023 Kwiple.com
Mob violence I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons. I think they should disarm. Immediately. Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, O.K. It'll be very dangerous. Donald Trump, again invoking the possibility of assassination as a way to prevent Hilllary Clinton from being elected  [without, being the chickenhawk he is, offering to disarm his own bodyguards] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence If she [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don't know. Donald Trump, suggesting gun rights supporters take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected President and gets to choose Supreme Court judges © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. Donald Trump, February 1, 2016, Cedar Rapids, IA and elsewhere © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence In the good old days, they'd rip him out of that seat so fast, but today everybody's politically correct. Our country's going to hell with being politcally correct. Donald Trump, February 26, 2016, Oklahoma City, OK © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence Isn't this more fun than a regular boring rally? To me, it's fun. Donald Trump, after having his private security force physically remove protesters from his rally and encouraging supporters to help them and to drown out protesters by chanting “Trump Trump Trump” or “USA USA USA” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Following Trump's victory, an ancient Greek term suddenly suddenly re-entered English usage: demophobia – literally fear of the mob. What if conveys is cold feet about democracy. … The Trump era's changing vocabulary also includes a word of more recent coinage: oikophobia, literally an aversion to home surroundings. In reality, it means fear of your own people – the opposite of xenophobia. Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row. Cindy Hyde-Smith, 2018 Republican candidate for Senator from Mississippi, where 539 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968, to a supporter at a campaign stop © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racists say If it needs lynching to protect women's dearest possession from the ravening human beasts, then I say lynch a thousand times a week. Rebecca Latimer Felton, Congress's last former slave owner, sworn in as Senator from Georgia in 1922, when she was nearly 88 years old © 2023 Kwiple.com
State of the union The Trump movement was always authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged periodically in the rhetoric of violence. Trump himself chafed against the restraints of law. But what the United States did not have  before 2020 was a large national movement willing to justify mob violence to claim political power. Now it does. David Frum, The Atlantic, July 13, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row. Cindy Hyde-Smith, 2018 Republican candidate for Senator from Mississippi, where 539 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968, to a supporter at a campaign stop © 2018 Kwiple.com