“I’d Get My House Bombed Tonight," Pennsylvania GOP Senate Leader Feared If She Wouldn’t Sign Letter in Support of Trump
December 10, 2020
Pennsylvania state capitol (Don Shall)
BUZZFLASH UPDATE
In the churn of news cycles, it is easy to quickly forget how much Trump has incited violence. One doesn’t have to go back far to document how Trump has inspired and incited paramilitary troops and lone wolves to carry out violence against those who do not support Trump.
From fanatics fabricating pipe bombs to blow up media “enemies” of the mafia don in the White House, to inciting the El Paso Massacre, to the storming of state capitols, Trump has, like Hitler, built a corps of brown shirts to “stand back and stand by.” So it wasn’t surprising that armed militia members in Michigan were caught preparing a plan to kidnap and execute Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, as well as carry out other brutal acts.
Trump did not renounce the plotters, who were arrested by the FBI. Nor is he discouraging armed intimidation and menacing threats in support of his efforts to steal the 2020 election.
As we approach January 20, Trump is in true fascist fashion signaling to his followers that “extremism in the defense of white authoritarian dictatorship is no vice” (to paraphrase Barry Goldwater).
So it’s not surprising as Trump spends his days engaging in illegal election tampering that many Republican politicians fear for their safety.
Trump got Pennsylvania Republican legislators to sign a letter to their state’s Congressional delegation to contest Biden as the winner of the Keystone State when the electoral votes are counted on January 6.
The New York Times had a telling account of how far Trump has led the US into a vicious powder keg. In regards to the Pennsylvania Republican letter cited above, it noted in an article:
Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release.
Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims — or to face its wrath.
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
The media needs to raise the alarm that we are in the midst of a putsch, and Trump will not hesitate to accelerate the violence among his cult.
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