And some, I assume, are good people.”ĭid Trump just threaten to physically fight #BlackLivesMatter protesters?- Chris Hayes August 11, 2015Īugust 19, 2015: Two Boston brothers invoked Trump when they were arrested for urinating on a homeless man and beating him with a metal pipe. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. Trump’s message from the start: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. His repeated insults have been said to incite violence and hate toward immigrants in the years that followed. June 16, 2015: When Trump announced his bid for president at Trump Tower in New York City, he made disparaging comments about Mexicans. That year, critics argued that his language led to attacks on bystanders, and in some cases, acts of violence were directly linked to Trump’s words. Trump officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States in June 2015 and wasted little time inciting fear and hate in his first speech. 2015: Trump announces his presidential bid and quickly suggests violence is the answer to opposition Here is a timeline of Trump’s hateful rhetoric since 2015, and some of the moments when his supporters took heed. And as president, he has used his platform to encourage violence against American citizens, whether through the police and National Guard or militia groups - unless those citizens are his supporters. Trump’s campaign rallies have always been incubation grounds for violence, sites where Trump spewed hate speech that encouraged physical harm against dissenters. Trump has continually refused to recognize what’s at the core of this violence: hate nurtured under a tense national climate that he has helped cultivate. Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020 He criticized Whitmer when the kidnapping plot was revealed and fished for compliments. Gretchen Whitmer, after Trump had stoked outrage over the state’s pandemic safety measures. In October, he equivocated on condemnation of the domestic terrorists who allegedly planned to kidnap Michigan Gov. And at the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, the president shocked many viewers when he was given an opportunity to condemn white supremacists, but declined. In August, he defended a teenage supporter who shot three people at a Black Lives Matter protest. In some cases, Trump denounces the violence, but he often walks back such statements, returning to a message of hate and harm.
That same year, a Florida man threatened to burn down a house next to his because a Muslim family purchased it, claiming that Trump’s Muslim ban made it a reason for “concern.” Then there are the more widely known examples, like Cesar Sayoc, who mailed 16 inoperative pipe bombs to Democratic leaders and referred to Trump as a “surrogate father” and the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 that left 23 dead, where the shooter’s manifesto parroted Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants. In 2016, a white man told officers “Donald Trump will fix them” while being arrested for threatening his Black neighbors with a knife. In fact, dozens of people enacted violence in Trump’s name in the years before the Capitol attack, according to a 2020 report from ABC News. Trump’s messaging on January 6 is precisely in line with how he’s historically addressed violence on the part of hate groups and his supporters: He emboldens it.Īs far back as 2015, Trump has been connected to documented acts of violence, with perpetrators claiming that he was even their inspiration. In a last-minute video message, Trump told the crowd to go home - then told them he loved them and believes they’re “very special.” Throughout the day, Trump continued to falsely claim that the election was stolen without any evidence to support this unreality, further riling up his followers to “take the country back.” By mid-afternoon, the Capitol building was breached and one member of the mob had been shot and fatally wounded. He told a crowd rallying south of the White House to “walk down to the Capitol,” adding, “You will never take back our country with weakness.”Īt Trump’s behest, throngs of his supporters descended on Washington, DC, to dispute the results of the presidential election, climbing the steps of the Capitol and busting through its doors and windows. On the very day that Congress counted the electoral votes that certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Trump opened up the US Capitol to an insurrection.
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