Republican says top Democrat yelled at him to shoot himself during protest at Minnesota state legislature



Republicans in Minnesota are demanding accountability for a top Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official who allegedly told a Republican to shoot himself.

Video on social media captures state Rep. Aisha Gomez (DFL) in an intense argument with Republican state Rep. Elliott Engen, and at one point she screams in his face. The exchange happened Thursday during a sit-in by Democrats angry over proposed gun restrictions that were rejected.

'Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career.'

Engen indicated on social media that Gomez yelled at him to "go f'ing shoot" himself and reposted video on social media making the claim.

Not only did he claim Gomez told him to shoot himself, but Engen added that "multiple" Democrat colleagues told him the same.

Republican leaders are now demanding that Gomez be punished by losing her committee assignment.

"This kind of behavior is unacceptable and it makes every person in this place less safe," said Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R). "Someone willing to spew hate and accost colleagues is unfit to serve as a leader in Minnesota."

Others are calling on Gomez to resign, which would tip over control of the House, currently tied at 67 members each, to Republicans.

However, in comments to KSTP-TV, Gomez denied using the violent rhetoric and provided video of the exchange from closer up that captures her apparently screaming, "Think of them, not yourself! How about that?!" instead.

"Total fabrication of my actual words," she said to KSTP.

Engen accused KSTP of shilling for Democrats, and when a KSTP reporter challenged him to post video of Gomez saying what he claimed, he responded defiantly.

"It was ten seconds into me being accosted on the house floor that it was said. Typically, you don’t think to have a live body cam on your colleagues, Tom. What you’re doing isn’t 'reporting.' It’s called carrying water," Engen responded.

A Blaze News request for comment to Engen's office was not immediately answered.

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The exchange comes at a time of heightened awareness about political violence after at least two more alleged assassination attempts against President Donald Trump since a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024.

"At no point did I say what the right wing media would have you believe was said," Gomez continued in her statement.

"I was responding to shameless floor comments from Rep. Engen where he called out Annunciation parents who lost a child to gun violence after voting against the measure they were supporting," she added. "Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career."

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The latest would-be Trump assassin answered the leftist call to violence



This isn’t the first time someone tried to assassinate President Trump. In the seven months since Charlie Kirk was gunned down, the violent rhetoric from the left has only gotten worse.

I resigned from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office after Kirk’s murder in order to warn the public about the violent consequences of the inflammatory rhetoric promoted by Democrats and amplified by the media.

Before almost every prior assassination attempt, that same toxic rhetoric was deployed. After almost every attempt, Democrat leaders and media figures issued predictable calls for calm and unity. Yet shortly thereafter, the rhetoric resumed, and another attempt followed. One of them succeeded.

The pattern has become so predictable that wild conspiracy theories about 'false flag' operations are now proliferating.

The public has largely forgotten the earliest attempts on Trump’s life. On June 18, 2016, Michael Steven Sandford tried to grab a police officer’s pistol during a Trump speech at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in order to shoot him. On September 6, 2017, Gregory Lee Leingang stole a forklift from an oil refinery and tried to ram Trump’s motorcade.

In both cases, the attempts were preceded by heated rhetoric. Former Democrat presidential candidate and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley labeled Trump a "fascist demagogue." After the Charlottesville incident, allegedly partially funded by the SPLC, MSNBC commentator Nicolle Wallace stated that Trump was giving "safe harbor to Nazis" and "white supremacists."

These early failures did not deter the pattern. The rhetoric continued, and more attempts followed.

In July 2019, New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker stated that Trump was "worse than a racist" and compared Trump to noted segregationist Democrat George Wallace.

On September 1, 2022, in his Philadelphia “Soul of the Nation” speech, Joe Biden declared that "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa stated that Trump “channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) consistently paints Trump as a fascist and a threat to democracy. In November 2023, Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan wrote that “a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.” “With each passing day, it will become harder and more dangerous to stop it by any means, legal or illegal.”

After this unrelenting barrage, with Trump and conservatives being branded as racists, fascists, and existential threats to democracy, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. The shooting grazed Trump’s ear and killed firefighter Corey Comperatore.

Democrats responded with familiar calls to lower the temperature and some easy condemnations of political violence, but actions speak louder than words.

A New Jersey columnist continued to label Trump a “fascist threat to democracy” only eight days after the assassination attempt.

On September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested while hiding in the bushes with a rifle near the course where Trump was golfing.

The rhetoric only intensified.

On October 23, 2024, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris agreed that Trump is a fascist, and she repeated the widely discredited statements of John Kelly that Trump praised Hitler. Media outlets continued to praise and encourage the dangerous and biased labels.

The labeling of Trump and conservatives as Hitler and Nazis and the comparison of ICE to the Gestapo are numerous and easy to find.

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On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. Once again came the public statements condemning political violence and calling for unity. But the rhetoric did not subside.

Within two weeks of his death, columnists repeated the lie that Kirk was a white supremacist promoting racist, anti-immigrant, transphobic violence and criticized anyone for mourning or honoring him.

Within a month of his death, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) called Kirk’s views "vile."

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called Trump a “wannabe Hitler.” Kamala Harris called Trump a "tyrant" and compared him to a "communist dictator." Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) claimed Trump was an existential threat requiring vigilance against "totalitarian" moves.

Less than 10 days ago, that dangerous rhetoric was repeated by Camden County Commissioner Louis Cappelli Jr., who publicly labeled Trump a "cult leader and traitor."

Saturday, another individual attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The pattern has become so predictable that wild conspiracy theories about “false flag” operations are now proliferating. This confusion makes confronting the real problem harder.

The cycle will not stop until more Americans — regardless of party — call out the poisonous rhetoric and insist on debating ideas, not demonizing opponents as enemies who must be stopped by any means.

Political violence has no place in America. Words have consequences. It’s time to choose debate over demonization before more innocent lives are lost.

The left’s vile rhetoric just keeps getting darker



Democrats are learning all the wrong lessons from where their vile rhetoric has gotten them — and Nancy Pelosi’s latest outburst is only the latest proof.

In a recent CNN interview, Pelosi called Donald Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the earth," before backing up her claim with virtually nothing.

“He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth, but anyway,” Pelosi told the interviewer.

“You think he’s the worst thing on the face of the earth?” the interviewer asked.


“Yeah, I do, because he’s the president of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States,” Pelosi replied.

“Really, Nancy? You couldn’t think of one single solitary thing that’s worse than a president who believes in things like freedom and liberty, and, you know, smaller government and lower taxes? That’s really the worst thing in the world to you?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales responds on "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered."

“These people are so incredible in their myopic thinking. I really wonder how they’re going to cope when Donald Trump is out of politics,” she adds.

Pelosi’s assertion that Donald Trump is “the worst thing on the face of the earth” is the kind of rhetoric that has led many Democrats to speak similarly to any Republican voter or official, as is evidenced in one recent case out of Montana.

After voting for Trump’s big, beautiful bill, freshman Senator of Montana Tim Sheehy (R) received an alarming voicemail from Haley McKnight, a woman running for the Helena city commission.

“I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans. And I hope you’re really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can’t even treat you for it,” McKnight said in the warm, friendly voicemail.

“I hope that you die in the street like a dog. One day, you’re going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope you never manage to get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s**t I’ve ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at, and you don’t serve Montanans. You serve your own private interests,” she continued.

“God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets, because I will make you regret it. F**k you. I hope you die,” she added, for good measure.

Apparently, McKnight doubled down when asked about the voicemail, calling it justifiable rage.

“Did she have this all mapped out on a piece of paper, or did she just fly in there blind?” Gonzales asks, shocked.

“This woman is running for office,” she adds.

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Excusing Violent Anti-Trump Rhetoric Will Have Terrible Ramifications

Democrats’ deliberately incendiary rhetoric singles out, demonizes, and dehumanizes Trump as someone who must be eliminated.

Trump DOJ won't let Dem congressman slide for apparent threat against Musk



Democrats have a habit of threatening or excusing violence to achieve their political aims. The Trump Department of Justice made clear Wednesday that inciting rhetoric, particularly threats against public officials, will no longer be tolerated.

The prospect of accountability for violent political rhetoric has Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) crying foul.

Garcia claimed weeks before a would-be assassin took aim at then-candidate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania last year that if Trump were re-elected, the Republican would "destroy this country, our democracy." Garcia has since expanded the cast of characters in his provocative fantasy to include Elon Musk.

Garcia, among the Democratic lawmakers incensed over the efforts by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency to streamline government operations and flush out fraud, insulted Musk at a Feb. 12 congressional hearing and insinuated that Musk had usurped the powers and authority of the president.

'Bring actual weapons to this bar fight.'

CNN later afforded the California Democrat an opportunity to continue attacking Musk.

"I think [Musk is] also harming the American public in an enormous way," said Garcia. "And what I think is really important and what the American public want is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country."

Garcia's suggestion that Americans should take up arms against the Trump administration prompted outrage and calls for accountability.

On Wednesday, interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin announced in a staff email to prosecutors that the Department of Justice would prosecute threats against public officials under an initiative called "Operation Whirlwind," reported the Washington Post.

Martin reportedly sent a letter asking Garcia to "clarify" his statements, noting that his talk of using "actual weapons" in "an actual fight for democracy" sounded "like a threat to Mr. Musk ... and government staff who work for him."

"We take threats against public officials very seriously," added Martin.

'I remind you: no one is above the law.'

Garcia claimed, in turn, that Martin's letter was "threatening" and evidently decided to lean harder into his dystopian fantasy, stating in a Thursday statement, "We are living in a dangerous time, and elected members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration."

The California Democrat also went on MSNBC to complain to former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, stating, "It's crazy that they want to investigate me for essentially using a metaphor and for taking on Elon Musk."

"We've got to fight fire with fire," he added.

While Garcia set out for his denial tour, Martin reportedly also sent a letter to Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who threatened U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh outside the high court in 2020, saying, "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

"Time is of the essence," Martin wrote to Schumer. "Your cooperation is more important than ever to complete this inquiry before any action is taken. I remind you: no one is above the law."

Martin apparently boldfaced "no one is above the law" in the letter, possibly because Schumer has repeatedly used the phrase, including when he criticized the Supreme Court in July over its decision in Trump v. United States.

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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."

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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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How Reddit Radicalizes The Left And Encourages Political Violence

The 'front page of the internet' isn't as welcoming as it seems.