In a recent appearance on “News Central,” CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem alleged former President Donald Trump is employing the “threat of violence” as a strategic tool to galvanize support from his followers.
Kayyem remarked, “It’s about to be 2024. We are running into an election period in which violence and the threat of violence are sort of viewed as an extension of our normal democratic differences. This is one of the successes of what Donald Trump has been able to do, is to sort of be kind of casual about violence.”
She falsely claimed that Trump, potentially the lead candidate for the GOP nomination, is openly utilizing language and threats of violence to rally his supporters. The CNN analyst further claimed:
“There’s two things. I don’t know how to say it louder, just like everyone needs to brace for this year, 2024 is going to be a year in which elections and the threat of violence overhangs this election for two reasons. One is Trump is not hiding it. I don’t need to pretend both sides here. Potentially, the lead candidate for the GOP, who’s going to get the nomination, is utilizing language and violence in the threat of violence as a way to rally his people to get support, and his party is sort of ignoring it. They’re not condemning it. I think that, then, creates an atmosphere in which violence becomes more permissive.”
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