Violence and threats of violence are growing against President Trump, administration officials and conservatives.
The latest is a display discovered in Virginia. Someone vandalized a pro-Trump billboard. They hung a bloodied, life-sized model of President Trump hanging from a noose. There was also a note attached – written in red calling for the assassination of the president.
The sign had been erected on property owned by Chester Carter along Interstate 94 in Sussex County, Virginia.
“I was about a mile away and I come by here and I say… ‘somebody has hung an effigy up of the president and a political message,’” Carter told television station WTVR.
“Since the election last year, a lot of people would stop and tear the American flags down. We had American flags on posts in the ground, people would stop and vandalize the flags,” he said.
The incident made even more disturbing because the Democrat nominee to be attorney general once texted about his fantasies of killing a Republican opponent as well as his children.
In Houston, someone lynched two mannequins dressed as Trump supporters. The homeowner who created the display also flew a Mexican flag form his property.
The rhetoric just getting even worse after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attempted assassinations of President Trump.
Local law enforcement said whoever is responsible would face both felony and misdemeanor charges.
“They have no right to go on my land exercising their freedom of speech. Do it in the highway, right, but they can’t do that,” Carter told the television station. “This is not just child’s play. This is serious consequences.”
This is not the time for what-about-isms. There’s only one political party that is encouraging and calling for political violence – and it’s the Democrat Party.
Words matter and when Congresswoman Maxine Waters told Democrats to absolutely harass Trump supporters – that was not rhetoric. She meant what she said.
Todd Starnes is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and host of The Todd Starnes Radio Show.
