Biden grits teeth, snarls that Trump, Republicans are 'the kind of guys you like to smack in the a**'



President Joe Biden during a Saturday speech in support of Kamala Harris' campaign gritted his teeth and snarled that former President Donald Trump and his "Republican friends" are "the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass."

Biden — who last week called Trump supporters "garbage" — made his latest shocking remark to members of a carpenters' union in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, while criticizing Trump and the GOP.

It wasn't the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump.

"There's one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do," Biden began. "They want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it's macho guy. I'll tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, I used to, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while. ... But I'm serious. These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass."

Biden's statement was met with cheers, laughter, and applause.

You can view video of the president's words here.

The headline in left-wing outlet the Huffington Post reads that "Biden Says He'd Like To 'Smack' Trump And His Supporters 'In The Ass.'"

Reuters had a similar interpretation of Biden's remarks:

Biden used colorful language when describing what he would like to do to those who would turn back his legislative accomplishments with a reference to his younger days in Scranton.

"I'm serious. These are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the ass," he said.

It wasn't the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump. In 2018, Biden infamously stated that if he were back in high school, he'd take Trump "behind the gym and beat the hell out of him."

A week before his "garbage" remark, Biden in another speech said of Trump that "we gotta lock him up." While his listeners applauded, Biden attempted to correct himself and sputtered, "Politically lock him out."

Biden also attempted damage control after his "garbage" remark by noting on X, "Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation."

The White House added an apostrophe to the transcript of his call with Voto Latino: "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American."

Indeed, two U.S. government officials told the AP that White House press officials altered the official transcript of Biden’s "garbage" remarks, which elicited objections from federal workers who transcribe what the president says for posterity. The AP added that it also obtained an internal email to back its report.

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Kamala Harris Is Priming Democrats For Violent Resistance If Trump Wins

The purpose of constantly invoking the specter of a dictatorship under Trump is to condition Democrats to react violently if Harris loses.

CNN contributor catches herself reflexively going back to violent anti-Trump language



Former Biden White House communications director and CNN contributor Kate Bedingfield proved unable Monday to refrain from employing the kind of violent rhetoric that many suspect originally set the stage for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Bedingfield was on a panel commenting on the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee when CNN talking head Anderson Cooper showed a clip from President Joe Biden's recent interview with NBC News' Lester Holt.

In the clip, Biden complained that the press had broken with tradition and finally discussed his decrepitude rather than continuing to lay into his opponent.

"Why don't you guys ever talk about the 18 to 28 lies he told?" Biden asked Holt. "Where are you on this? Why didn't the press ever talk about that? 28 times. ... I had a bad, bad night. I wasn't feeling well at all. And I had been — well, I'm not going to make any — I screwed up."

'That was not the phrase that I meant.'

Cooper subsequently wondered why Biden had himself proven incapable of pushing back against Trump's supposed lies during the debate, then noted recent polling that "does not look good" for Biden.

Bedingfield seized upon Cooper's comments as an opportunity to talk Democratic strategy, emphasizing that Biden has made clear he is "not going to step down."

"So, at some point Democrats have to decide that they want to try to win this election and turn their fire on Donald Trump," added Bedingfield.

Bedingfield immediately realized that her natural choice of militaristic language with regard to Trump was imprudent, especially just days after a radical literally turned his fire on the former president.

"I shouldn't have said 'turn their fire.' I apologize," Bedingfield said as the other panelists chuckled amongst themselves. "That was not the phrase that I meant. They need to turn their focus on Donald Trump."

The "War Room" account for the Trump campaign highlighted Bedingfield's comments, noting, "Former top Biden staffer and current CNN contributor Kate Bedingfield just said Democrats need to 'turn their fire on Donald Trump' — days after a deranged lunatic shot him in a failed assassination attempt. Democrats just can't help themselves."

Bedingfield replied, "I immediately caught myself and apologized — it was intended as a turn of phrase to mean focus on him, but I agree it's absolutely inappropriate in this moment."

Former Acting Director of U.S. National Intelligence Richard Grenell clapped back, writing, "Not only in this moment."

While Bedingfield apparently managed to keep from publicly slipping up for at least one full day following the rally shooting, some of her fellow travelers alternatively wasted no time vilifying Trump.

The New York Times' print edition of Sunday Opinion ran an op-ed Sunday condemning the wounded Republican, stating in bold on a dark, full page depicting a silhouette of Trump's head, "He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must reject him."

'We urge voters to see the dangers of a second Trump term.'

The op-ed from the Times' editorial board, first published digitally last week, claimed that Trump is a man "as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great."

According the piece advanced by the Times in print just hours after Trump was shot and after his supporter, the heroic former fire chief Corey Comperatore, was murdered, "He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people. Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him."

The Times' editorial board added, "We urge voters to see the dangers of a second Trump term clearly and to reject it."

Kathleen Kingsbury, the Times' opinions editor, suggested in an essay that "there is no connection between our prior decision to run this editorial package in print and Saturday’s incident — we would have changed our plans if we could have," reported the New York Post.

While the timing of the Times' op-ed may have been accidental, MSNBC analyst David Corn's vilification of Trump Sunday in the leftist blog Mother Jones was fully intentional. Corn stressed, "Only one of the candidates in the 2024 contest incited a violent assault on the US Capitol to overturn an election and still threatens American democracy. What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, does not change that."

CNN commentator, former Jan. 6 committee member, and Biden booster Adam Kinzinger wrote roughly 24 hours after Trump was shot, "The Trump campaign and surrogates will try to intimidate Biden supporters from going after the former President politically. Do not let up. Trump is a threat to democracy and he must be stopped."

Sunday afternoon, Vox published an article entitled, "Yes, it's still fair to call Trump a threat to democracy."

"In the wake of this weekend's assassination attempt, however, some have called on partisans to do more than this: They have suggested that we must not merely condemn violence, but also avoid rhetoric that could hypothetically inspire it," wrote Vox's Eric Levitz.

Levitz figured he'd instead double down, writing, "Donald Trump really does present a threat to the norms of liberal democracy and the welfare of millions of US residents."

Levitz was joined in attacking Trump over the weekend by former George W. Bush speechwriter and Atlantic editor David Frum.

Frum wrote, "Fascist movements are secular religions. Like all religions, they offer martyrs as their proof of truth. ... The Trump movement now improves on that: The leader himself will be the martyr in chief, his own blood the basis for his bid for power and vengeance."

"Those who stand against Trump and his allies must find the will and the language to explain why these crimes, past and planned, are all wrong, all intolerable — and how the gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet's trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy," added Frum.

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Maxine Waters urged radicals to harass lawmakers in public. Turns out, she's not keen when they come for her.



Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) urged radicals to mob her political opponents in public in 2018. Having since received a taste of her own medicine, the 85-year-old leftist has apparently determined her tactic is not only unacceptable but perhaps racist as well.

Waters, presently campaigning to secure an 18th term in Congress, fancied herself the face of the "resistance" during the Trump presidency. She leaned into the role during a June 2018 toy drive, screaming to a crowd outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, "History will record while [Trump] tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear and step on him."

"If you think we're rallying now, you ain't seen nothin' yet!" added Waters.

"Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants ... who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, 'No peace, no sleep! No peace, no sleep!" continued the geriatric radical.

Waters was referencing a recent incident where a group of Democratic socialists had mobbed then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she attempted to eat at a Mexican restaurant. The protesters derided Nielsen for attempting to secure the border and protect American sovereignty, yelling, "Kirstjen Nielsen, you're a villain, locking up immigrant children."

Evidently supportive of the tactic, Waters told the crowd at the charity event, "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome any more, anywhere."

A video excerpt of an undated interview with Waters recently went viral wherein she intimates that this sort of harassment is unacceptable — if directed her way.

Waters complains of an instance wherein someone confronted in a restaurant. The Democrat apparently construed the criticism as a surefire sign of a "racist attitude."

"They don't say racist things, but what they say is they don't like something I said. They don't like a position that I took."

Waters adds, "But you know that, you know, if you were not black you would not be approached that way."

— (@)

Multitudes of commentators mocked Waters' remarks online, many quoting back her apparent incitements to violence, which were not limited to the Democrat's 2018 remarks.

During former police officer Derek Chauvin's murder trial, Waters gave marching orders to prospective rioters just in case Chauvin was not found guilty in the death of George Floyd.

"Well, we got to stay on the street," said the Democratic congresswoman. "And we've got to get more active. You've got to get more confrontation. You got to make sure that they know we mean business."

Maxine Waters is marching in Brooklyn Center tonight and told people to take to the streets if Chauvin is acquitted
— (@)

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Fox News host says 'it would be great' if Trump 'called for an end to the violent rhetoric' against FBI



Fox News host Steve Doocy asserted Monday that former President Donald Trump has a responsibility to help stop "violent rhetoric" being used against the FBI.

What did Doocy say?

Speaking on "Fox & Friends," Doocy said "it would be great" if Trump demanded an end to the "violent rhetoric" being spewed at FBI agents after the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

"It would be great for everybody to tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do," Doocy said.

"With all of these threats going around, it would ultimately be great if the former president — who has always been a great supporter of law enforcement and who has posed with 1,000 police departments coast-to-coast — it would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement and, in particular, the FBI that was just doing their job," he added.

What is the background?

FBI Director Christopher Wray released a statement last week condemning a barrage of threats against his agency in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago controversy.

The statement read:

Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others. Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans. Every day I see the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. I am proud to serve alongside them.

The allegedly violent rhetoric became real last week when a man attempted to attack the FBI field office in Cincinnati. That attempted attack ended with a fatal standoff between the perpetrator and police.

Interestingly, Trump himself urged cooler heads to prevail in an interview with Fox News on Monday.

"The country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger, like I've never seen before," Trump said. "If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people, would certainly be willing to do that.

"People are so angry at what is taking place," the former president also said. "Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen."

Maxine Waters claims she didn't encourage violence against Trump supporters, but here's what she said in 2018



Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) claimed over the weekend that she did not use inflammatory rhetoric against Trump supporters or encourage violence against them during Trump's presidency.

What did Waters say during Trump's presidency?

Waters, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, came under fire in 2018 after she encouraged her supporters to confront supporters of then-President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet.

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," she said.

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Waters later said in an interview on MSNBC that Trump's defenders would not be safe from being confronted over their support of Trump.

"They are not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they are not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they are not going to be able to shop in a department store. The people are going to turn on them, they are gonna protest, they are gonna absolutely harass them," Waters said at the time.

At the time, Democrats were angry at Trump over his "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Less than a week before Waters' comments, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was run out of a restaurant.

What is Waters saying now?

Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Sunday, Waters denied ever using inflammatory language suggesting violence against Trump's supporters.

"As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I said was tell them they're not welcome," Waters claimed. "[I said], 'Talk to them. Tell them they're not welcome.' I didn't say, 'Go and fight.' I didn't say anybody was going to have any violence. And so they can't make that stick."

By contrast, Waters claimed that Trump was determined "to destroy our democracy if he could not be president." She claimed he "sent" the rioters into the Capitol.

"Nothing equals that," Waters said, adding that Republicans should distance themselves from Trump or they "will be owned by this dishonorable human being."

Why is she defending herself now?

Trump's lead impeachment attorney, Bruce Castor, confirmed last week that he will use "dueling video" to combat evidence that Trump's rhetoric about election integrity incited the violence at the Capitol.

Castor's confirmation came after Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked if he would use video of Waters' 2018 remarks during Trump's Senate trial, which begins on Tuesday.

"I think you can count on that," Castor said.

According to Castor, Democrats are guilty of essentially the same thing they say Trump should be convicted in the Senate over.

There's an awful lot of a tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by Democrats throughout the country, and many of them in Washington, using really the most inflammatory rhetoric that's possible to use. And certainly, there would be no suggestion that they did anything to incite any of the actions. Certainly, there wasn't any anyhow.

But here, when you have the president of the United States give a speech and says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in Congress, he's all of a sudden a villain. So you got to better be careful what you wish for.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) made the same point on Sunday.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Paul said that if Democrats' impeachment standard was applied fairly, then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should also face impeachment.

"If we're going to criminalize speech, and somehow impeach everybody who says, 'Go fight to hear your voices heard,' I mean really we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then," Paul said.

"He went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the Supreme Court and said specifically, 'Hey Gorsuch, hey Kavanaugh, you've unleashed a whirlwind. And you're going to pay the price,'" Paul continued. "This inflammatory wording, this violent rhetoric of Chuck Schumer was so bad that the chief justice, who rarely says anything publicly, immediately said this kind of language is dangerous as a mob tried to invade the Supreme Court."

Eric Holder speaks for the ‘new Democratic Party’: ‘When they go low, we kick them’

Speaking at a recent campaign event for Georgia Democrats, rumored 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder used violent rhetoric in making a pitch for a "new Democratic Party."

"Our nation is at risk. Our democracy is at risk," Holder to a room of Democratic activists. Holder is openly considering launching a bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination to challenge President Trump. Encouraging his audience to become more involved politically, Holder attacked the Trump administration and the Republican Party in what is likely to become his 2020 campaign message.

"We have to send a message about what this nation is really all about," Holder said. "We are a lot more tolerant than Trump would have us believe. We're a lot more accepting than Trump would have people believe. We're a better nation than Trump would have people think of us as a country. And frankly, we're better than the Republicans would have us be portrayed."

"Republicans have done all they possibly can to try to break up our democracy, keep people away from the polls with these voter ID laws," he continued. He accused Republicans of using racial and partisan gerrymandering to maintain power and lamented that Democrats are softer than Republicans.

"It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are," Holder said.

"Michelle [Obama] always says that when they go low, we go high. No. No. When they go low, we kick them. That's what this new Democratic Party is about."

The audience applauded, laughed, and chanted, "fight."

Holder's violent language follows calls from 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for the party to become less civil toward Republicans.

"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about," Clinton said in an interview with CNN. "That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."

Another prospective 2020 candidate, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., recently called for activists to "get up in the face of some congresspeople."

This is dangerous. Violent rhetoric from leaders on the Left motivates some of their activists to commit acts of violence against conservatives. Holder can preach tolerance and acceptance, but we observe how leftist Antifa mobs assault people, or how a deranged man like James T. Hodgkinson attempted to murder congressional Republicans on a baseball field.

Remember that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was assaulted by his neighbor. Paul recently expressed his concern that "someone is going to be killed" if Democrats continue to use violent rhetoric.

"Those who are ratcheting up the conversation ... they have to realize that they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence," Paul said in an interview with a Kentucky radio station.

Eric Holder and the rest of the Democrats should get the memo before running for president. Someone could get hurt.

Editor's note: The title of this article was changed to clarify that Eric Holder made these remarks.

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