he then goes on to talk about putting bullets in three georgia officials. calling them treasonous traitors. as i said, we do not know who the election officials are that this guy threatened, as for the weird stuff about one georgia election official being a chinese agent, obviously, there were all kinds of conspiracy theories, being pushed by tampering with the vote count. i will also mention, just a few days before this threat was posted, then president trump accused georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, of hiding all the election fraud, because his brother works for china. a conspiracy theory that managed to gain traction, despite the fact that not only did brad raffensperger not have a brother who works for china, he doesn t even have a brother. this guy in texas has been charged for these threats, the first case from the justice department task force, to combat threats against election workers. it s a start. you know, is strangely fitting that the first charge for
i m saying when you got 55 million twitter followers and you say, lock her up and cnn sucks and you take a shot at people personally, somebody is going to look at it and say, i wept to a rally where people are really aggressive and now i m going to act on it, and finally we saw it hatch thppen this wee. i am irritated, wolf. as you should be. our heart goes out to you and everybody else this guy threatened. he threatened a bunch of people. this is why it is unacceptable that the president refuses to discuss his rhetoric. this is why it is an unacceptable spon unacceptable response from sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, to dismiss it as a viable topic to talk about, because of exactly what phil is saying. you have to be ignorant of reality to not see the impact of the rhetoric, and so that s why when you are the leader of the free world and the president of the united states, it is an incumbent responsibility on you to speak to this very thing.