With another federal indictment looming and another in the state of Georgia likely sometime next month, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is now platforming a video on his Truth Social site that seems to call for violence in response to his worsening legal situation.
The video features a black and white photo of the disgraced ex-president along with audio of him warning, “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Trump originally spoke those words in an October 2020 interview with radio host Rush Limbaugh, just weeks before he lost to President Joe Biden, according to the Washington Post.
“Down in the polls and isolated by illness, President Trump retreated to the safe spaces of two Fox networks and Rush Limbaugh’s radio program in a 36-hour burst of media interviews three weeks before Election Day. The sprawling, somewhat manic phone-in interviews put Trump front and center on the radar of many of his most loyal supporters, via the most conservative-friendly media outlets, but arguably did little to reach the independent and moderate voters Trump will need to close the gap with former vice president Joe Biden.”
Trump never closed the gap and lost by 7 million ballots in the popular vote and by a margin of 306 to 232 in the Electoral College, which is considered to be a landslide.
Here’s some of the Twitter reaction to Trump’s violent video threat:
