“I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”
1991 memoir published by John R. O’Donnell, the former president of Trump Hotel & Casino
“He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
July 2015
“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”
August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murdered
“In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed:I am your retribution”.
March 2020, closing CPAC in Maryland,
“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)
“Stand back and stand by.”
September 29, 2020, during a presidential debate
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”
“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”
March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, Texas
“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”
November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speech
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rally
“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)
“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”
September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in Pennsylvania
“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”
October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview
Source : The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Pennlive.com
Qui peut voter pour quelqu’un ayant fait de telles déclarations et pas par accident ?