Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said overwrought political rhetoric shares some blame in encouraging violence against former President Donald Trump days after Trump narrowly survived a gunman’s bullet.
Shapiro appeared with Piers Morgan on his eponymous show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to discuss the assassination attempt against Trump and the rhetorical attacks that have been leveled at the former president for years. Shapiro said that attempts to characterize Trump as “actual Hitler” created an atmosphere where an attempt against his life, such as what happened at Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, is much more likely.
“All you have to do to understand how ridiculous the argument is to say, you know, actual Hitler,” Shapiro told Morgan, “You say, ‘Well, we wish our best to actual Hitler. We hope that actual Hitler and his family are doing well. Our prayers go out to actual Hitler.’ Well, you wouldn’t say that, obviously, because you’d want Hitler to be assassinated.”
Wild attacks against Trump, such as comparisons to Hitler, claims that Trump’s election threatens democracy, and other exaggerations – tend to increase the feelings that something must be done to stop him, according to Shapiro.
“The moral argument in favor of then getting rid of that person in order to save the country is fairly strong,” he said, “But the whole point is that no one actually believes that.”
“That’s where the dishonesty comes in,” Shapiro continued. “Democrats don’t actually believe that Donald Trump is Hitler any more than Republicans who say that Joe Biden, if he is re-elected, would end the country. … Nobody actually believes that because if you actually believed that, there is an actual moral case for you to pick up a gun and go do something about it.”
Shapiro then criticized President Joe Biden’s address after the attempt to take Trump’s life. Biden said that political rhetoric in the country needs to de-escalate, but Shapiro pointed out that Biden never explicitly included his own rhetoric in that message. Biden’s campaign has been a primary offender in overwrought political messaging about Trump, according to Shapiro.
“President Biden gives a speech last night in which he talks about how we need to cool it down, and all I wanted from him was for him to say, ‘including me.’ Just say, ‘including me,’” Shapiro said. “The reality of him not saying that, it makes it sound like, ‘Well, now I’m diffusing responsibility among everyone without taking any for myself.’ And I would hope that everybody would take a look in the mirror at this point and say, ‘including me.’”
.@piersmorgan: “Most people would agree that Adolf Hitler should have been killed for what he did. So if you apply that brand to Donald Trump—to a warped, deranged, impressionable young mind, it’s not entirely surprising that people may want to eliminate the ‘new Hitler.'”… pic.twitter.com/CDN3m4slPJ
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 15, 2024
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said overwrought political rhetoric shares some blame in encouraging violence against former President Donald Trump days after Trump narrowly survived a gunman’s bullet.
Shapiro appeared with Piers Morgan on his eponymous show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to discuss the assassination attempt against Trump and the rhetorical attacks that have been leveled at the former president for years. Shapiro said that attempts to characterize Trump as “actual Hitler” created an atmosphere where an attempt against his life, such as what happened at Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, is much more likely.
“All you have to do to understand how ridiculous the argument is to say, you know, actual Hitler,” Shapiro told Morgan, “You say, ‘Well, we wish our best to actual Hitler. We hope that actual Hitler and his family are doing well. Our prayers go out to actual Hitler.’ Well, you wouldn’t say that, obviously, because you’d want Hitler to be assassinated.”
Wild attacks against Trump, such as comparisons to Hitler, claims that Trump’s election threatens democracy, and other exaggerations – tend to increase the feelings that something must be done to stop him, according to Shapiro.
“The moral argument in favor of then getting rid of that person in order to save the country is fairly strong,” he said, “But the whole point is that no one actually believes that.”
“That’s where the dishonesty comes in,” Shapiro continued. “Democrats don’t actually believe that Donald Trump is Hitler any more than Republicans who say that Joe Biden, if he is re-elected, would end the country. … Nobody actually believes that because if you actually believed that, there is an actual moral case for you to pick up a gun and go do something about it.”
Shapiro then criticized President Joe Biden’s address after the attempt to take Trump’s life. Biden said that political rhetoric in the country needs to de-escalate, but Shapiro pointed out that Biden never explicitly included his own rhetoric in that message. Biden’s campaign has been a primary offender in overwrought political messaging about Trump, according to Shapiro.
“President Biden gives a speech last night in which he talks about how we need to cool it down, and all I wanted from him was for him to say, ‘including me.’ Just say, ‘including me,’” Shapiro said. “The reality of him not saying that, it makes it sound like, ‘Well, now I’m diffusing responsibility among everyone without taking any for myself.’ And I would hope that everybody would take a look in the mirror at this point and say, ‘including me.’”
.@piersmorgan: “Most people would agree that Adolf Hitler should have been killed for what he did. So if you apply that brand to Donald Trump—to a warped, deranged, impressionable young mind, it’s not entirely surprising that people may want to eliminate the ‘new Hitler.'”… pic.twitter.com/CDN3m4slPJ
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 15, 2024
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