Article illustration shows assassinated Roman leader Julius Caesar bursting out of Trump’s head.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) called out a Washington Post article warning of a “Trump dictatorship” in 2024 as an invitation for assassinating former President Donald Trump.
In the article, titled “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending“, Robert Kagan warned Democrats that Trump becoming the GOP nominee is all but certain, which could lead to him rising to power like Hitler did in Germany.
“They’re obviously green-lighting assassination,” Gaetz wrote Monday on X.
They’re obviously green-lighting assassination. pic.twitter.com/rSocx7WFKc
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 4, 2023
Obvious or not, it’s an extraordinary remark to make by a member of Congress, especially given the current polarized political climate.
Perhaps Gaetz was referring to the article’s illustration which shows Roman leader Julius Caesar, who was assassinated by a group of senators in 44 B.C., bursting out of Trump’s head.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out that the WaPo writer Kagan, a co-founder of neocon think tank Project for the New American Century, is married to Joe Biden’s Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, a key architect of America’s foreign policy that resulted in “multiple wars” in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Says everything:
Robert Kagan — Victoria Nuland’s husband — is the neocon who worked with Bill Kristol to lie the country into multiple wars.
His job is now? He’s a WashPost editor, where he writes hysterical articles about how Trump, this time, will be a real dictator. pic.twitter.com/a2ula2zOcP
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 3, 2023
Trump on Truth Social reposted Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) blasting the WaPo article’s ridiculous bad-faith premise and noting that Trump’s America First platform — economic prosperity, no endless wars, public safety — is popular among the American people.
“The American people want the economy Trump created, affordable living conditions, safety back in our communities, peace through strength foreign policies that prevented all out war, and an America first driven agenda,” he wrote.
“All that is opposite of what we’ve gotten under the failed Biden.”
The mainstream media and Democrats have notably ratcheted up their anti-Trump rhetoric in recent months amid an already tense political environment with an election less than a year away.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) last month called for Trump to be “eliminated”, prompting backlash that led to him apologizing “for the poor choice of words.”
Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again.
While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence.
I apologize for the poor choice of words.
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) November 20, 2023
