{"id":13036,"date":"2019-08-05T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13036"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:52:17","slug":"naming-names-the-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/naming-names-the-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming names: The list of notables encouraging violence against the president is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-05-Naming-names-The-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-05-Naming-names-The-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing.png 705w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-05-Naming-names-The-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>World Tribune<\/strong>, by Staff &#8212; August 4, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOne trait of the Democratic field of presidential candidates is  always to sound further to the left than any of their primary rivals,\u201d  columnist Victor Davis Hanson noted.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cApparently, a similar habit is to see who can most effectively  imagine beating up the president,\u201d Hanson wrote for American Greatness  on July 31.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHollywood and the entertainment industry have been in constant  competition to imagine the most gruesome way of killing off Trump \u2014  stabbing, blowing up, burning, shooting, suffocating, decapitating or  beating,\u201d Hanson wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>According to Syracuse University\u2019s Transactional Records Access  Clearinghouse, there were 23 prosecutions for threats against President  Donald Trump or those in the presidential line of succession last year, a  130 percent increase over 2017, when there were 10.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hanson listed some of the notables who have encouraged violence against the president:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Joe Biden: In March 2018, Biden huffed, \u201cThey asked me would I like  to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, \u2018If we were in high  school, I\u2019d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.\u201d A  year later, he doubled down on his physical threats. \u201cThe idea that I\u2019d  be intimidated by Donald Trump? \u2026 He\u2019s the bully that I\u2019ve always stood  up to. He\u2019s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I  stutter, and I\u2019d smack him in the mouth.\u201d<\/em><\/li><li>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/naming-names-the-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing\/\">https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/naming-names-the-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Tribune, by Staff &#8212; August 4, 2019 Excerpt: \u201cOne trait of the Democratic field of presidential candidates is always to sound further to the left than any of their primary rivals,\u201d columnist Victor Davis Hanson noted. \u201cApparently, a similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/naming-names-the-list-of-notables-encouraging-violence-against-the-president-is-growing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13038,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions\/13038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}