'Dumb, dangerous troll': Conservative columnist shreds Eric Greitens for ad glorifying political violence

Matthew Chapman
June 20, 2022



Eric Greitens during the 2014 Michigan Works! Annual Conference. (Flickr/Michigan Works! Association)


On Monday, writing for The Daily Beast, conservative columnist Matt Lewis tore into far-right Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens for an ad that appears to show him targeting a Republican opponent's home for a violent raid.

Greitens, who has faced allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence, depicted men in military uniforms breaking into a home with flash-bang grenades, as Greitens said, "Join the MAGA crew, get a RINO [Republican In Name Only] hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

"Back in 1984, when former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and I were about ten years old, a man named James Oliver Huberty walked into a California McDonald’s with an uzi, a handgun, and a shotgun, and mowed down 21 people, while also injuring 19. When Huberty left his house that day, he reportedly told his wife, 'I’m going hunting…hunting for humans,'" wrote Lewis. "I was reminded of this eerie line again on Monday, when Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, tweeted a Senate campaign video showing him holding a gun and saying: 'We’re going RINO hunting.'"

"This is not to say that Greitens actually poses any personal threat. But it is worth mentioning that Greitens’ hairdresser said in 2018 that he bound and blindfolded her, coerced her to perform a sex act, and then blackmailed her with photos he allegedly took without her consent. It’s also worth noting that Greitens’ ex-wife claims he committed violent acts against her and their children," noted Lewis. "Regardless, considering the incidents of political violence plaguing America right now, Greitens is contributing to an environment where certain people might hear his message and conclude that they can help rid America of these troublesome RINOs."

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Greitens is one of several Republicans trying to secure the Senate nomination in Missouri, where polls say he has been struggling ever since the latest allegations surfaced.

"This video seeks to dehumanize fellow Americans and contributes to the sense that we are at war with one another. It increases the likelihood that some unstable person will see this call to action and take Greitens literally. This video deserves our scorn. It should not be laughed off or (by virtue of ignoring it) 'normalized,'" concluded Lewis. "Call me naive for ever believing someone with Greitens’ credentials would be above this, but at a time when America feels like it is coming apart, it is truly sad that a Republican and a former Navy SEAL would behave in such a dishonorable manner."

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/eric-greitens-hunting-rinos/

 

Cmon american hating ass.
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Give us more.

 

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The Missouri candidate for the US Senate runs a campaign ad of him holding a run and offering "RINO hunting licenses" with no bag limit and no tags necessary. The ad shows him and several other vigilantes going to house, kicking down the door, and slaughtering the inhabitants for being RINO's. And anyone to objects to that is just being a snowflake.


Eric Greiten blasts Missouri 'snowflakes' after Steve Bannon asks if violent ad 'crossed a line'

David Edwards
June 21, 2022



Real America's Voice/screen grab


Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon questioned whether Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens of Missouri had "crossed a line" with a violent political advertisement.

On his Tuesday War Room: Pandemic broadcast, Bannon pointed out that 5 million people had watched the advertisement where Greitens and a SWAT-style team storm a home looking for "Republicans in name only" or RINOs.

"There's one thing about being provocative, there's another thing about crossing a line," Bannon told the candidate. "Do you believe in hindsight now that it's out, you've seen all the controversy, but you've also seen the traffic I'm sure it's driven to your campaign site, when you balance provocative versus maybe I crossed a line here, where does Eric Greitens come out?"

Greitens said that he is "100% proud of this ad."

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"Every real American understands what a metaphor is," he insisted. "And they also watched this faux outrage from these snowflakes all over Missouri and all over the United States of America and it's one of the reasons why we're seeing tremendous support for this campaign."

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/eric-greit...eve-bannon-asks-if-violent-ad-crossed-a-line/

 

Wow, this is ironic! Because Greitens is wanting to kill "deplorables"...

 

You really are funny anon.
But Maxine, she isn't suggesting we go out and kill Trump supporters, is she?

 

Way to miss the point! Your Republican candidate want to kill other Republicans! He didn't even mention Democrats!

 

Not republicans. He never said republicans. He said rinos.
You do understand the difference, right?

 

After armed mobs went to Shay Moss and her mother Ruby's houses and didn't find them they went to Shay's grandmother's house and started banging the door. She is an elderly woman who did not realize the danger so she opened the door. Members of an armed mob pushed past her entering her house demanding to know where her daughter and granddaughter were because they were there to make a citizens arrest. And telling her she had better just be glad it was 2020 instead of 1920 when they could still just lynch Black people.

 

But say, lets talk about those "armed mobs" that Moss testified about, and lets talk about January 6 some more and how Trump led the insurrection using code words like "peaceful" and "respect".
Pay no attention to the mob outside the Federal building in Portland.

 

Trump's crazed mob inflicts terror on ordinary Americans

Heather Digby Parton, Salon
June 22, 2022



Thousands of Trump supporters gather at the Supreme Court to show their support for President Trump after the election. (Shutterstock.com)


There is so much evidence emerging from the January 6th hearings that it's sometimes hard to wrap your arms around what it all means. They are making a strong case that Donald Trump knew the election was legitimate yet spread the Big Lie that it was stolen anyway. He was also told that his scheme to have his vice president, Mike Pence, overturn the election was illegal and unconstitutional. The committee on Tuesday, during its fourth hearing, laid out how Trump was intimately involved in the pressure campaign to persuade Republican state officials to illegally change the legitimate results and "decertify" the will of the people. Future hearings will discuss the plot to corrupt the Department of Justice(DOJ) and incite the mob to intimidate the joint session of Congress and the vice president into overturning the election.

All roads lead to Trump and his henchmen. It's clear that there were many enablers around him — as even those who resisted internally didn't publicly sound the alarm.

Trump ordered the Republican National Committee to "help" with the "fake elector" scheme, knowing that there was no constitutionally valid alternative, which they were happy to do. Yet the so-called Team Normal surrounding Trump, who knew their leader was staging a coup, simply shrugged and backed away quietly. Lawyers in Trump's orbit testified that they knew the "fake elector" scheme was illegal and unethical and simply washed their hands of it rather than step up to say something.



Nonetheless, there were Republican officials who did their duty and Tuesday's hearings featured three of them.

Arizona's Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers movingly testified to the intense pressure brought to bear on him to use his office to help Trump overturn the election in his state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talked about that famous phone call in which Trump asked him to "find" just enough votes for him to win and Gabriel Sterling, the Chief Operating Officer of Raffensperger's office, spoke at length about how the accusations of fraud were disproved over and over again. Unlike most of the people around Trump (and many in the states), these were people who took their oaths of office seriously and refused to do Donald Trump's bidding. Their testimony in that regard was very compelling.

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Hovering over all these hearings, however, is the ongoing threat of political violence and that narrative is unfolding right along with the narrative of the coup plot itself. The violence was unleashed long before Jan. 6th and looking back it seems inevitable that it was leading to an insurrection. Tuesday's hearing illustrated how that was felt by the individuals on the receiving end of those threats. Various officials relayed their experiences with threats and harassment at their homes and on their jobs, some of which is ongoing. Bowers's gravely ill daughter and neighbors, for instance, were threatened and he still has video panel trucks running by his house and in his neighborhood calling him a pedophile and pervert. Raffensperger's wife got what he called "sexualized" threats and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was intimidated at her home. These stories can be repeated all over the country as elected officials were harassed for failing to follow Trump's orders to make him the winner of the 2020 election regardless of the legitimate election results.

But that was nothing compared to the horrors inflicted on innocent election workers who were targeted for allegedly cheating on behalf of Joe Biden. None suffered more than Fulton County election worker Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, both of whom gave testimony to the committee.

In his famous phone call to Raffensperger, Donald Trump called Freeman a "professional vote scammer and hustler." His lawyer Rudy Giuliani told a Georgia legislative hearing that the two women were committing voter fraud, "surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine." It turned out that the "USB ports" (the supposed tech expert meant USB drive) was actually a mint that Freeman passed to her daughter. This disgusting slander was all over right-wing media:

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And where did that come from? It started in the far corners of the right-wing fever swamp and ended up on Fox News and in Donald Trump's mouth.

Moss described how her life was turned upside down by what Trump and his followers did to them. Angry Trumpers tried to push through her grandmother's front door saying they were there to make a citizen's arrest. The FBI told Freeman she needed to leave her home because her life was in danger. Both of them are afraid to use their names in public and Moss has quit her job as an election worker along with everyone she worked with on the 2020 election. These women were hounded, harassed and threatened all because Donald Trump's ego wouldn't let him admit he lost the election and many of his followers have lost all common sense and common decency.

The violence of January 6th had been a long time coming, even before the election.

We saw state houses taken over by armed militia "protesting" mask mandates. Public health officials were threatened at their homes. School board members were plagued with taunts of "we know how to find you" at public meetings. Many of these "protesters" are armed.

The RNC even called January 6th "legitimate political discourse." The threat of political violence is now an everyday feature of right-wing political activism.

Trump didn't create this phenomenon. He's just the first president to openly endorse it and coerce the GOP establishment to fully embrace it. The violent rhetoric of the right-wing media was way ahead of him. Recall original gangster Rush Limbaugh who said decades ago now, "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus — living fossils…. " Or consider Ann Coulter when asked what was her biggest ethical dilemma said, "There was one time I had a shot at Clinton. I thought 'Ann, that's not going to help your career.'"

Violent rhetoric has been the coin of the realm in right-wing media since Trump was a Democrat. But it's gone into overdrive since he came on the scene and his Big Lie and coup attempt were destined to end up with people getting hurt and killed.

We don't yet know what the committee has uncovered about Trump's knowledge of the various violent plots that were cooked up around January 6th. It's possible he knew nothing of them. But that doesn't absolve him of responsibility for the atmosphere he amplified during his time in office. He not only publicly modeled the bullying and authoritarian style of the mob boss, but he also encouraged his followers to use threats and intimidation to force political acquiescence over democratic means. Of course, they would resort to violence. That's the whole point.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-crazed-mob-inflicts-terror-on-ordinary-americans/

 

Jan. 6 committee members see huge increase in violent threats in past 24 hours: report

Travis Gettys
June 22, 2022



House select committee official photo.


The members of the House select committee have seen a notable increase in the number of violent threats against them since their latest public hearing.

The committee held its fourth hearing Tuesday focusing on Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss by sending slates of fraudulent electors to Congress and pressuring local election officials through violent intimidation to admit to bogus claims of wrongdoing, and that has unleashed a new wave of threats against panel members, reported the Washington Post.

“There is violence in the future, I’m going to tell you,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week," "and until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently.”

Kinzinger, one of the panel's two Republicans, revealed over the weekend that he had received a letter threatening to execute him, his wife and their five-month-old child.

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All lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will likely receive a security detail in response to the new threats, according to three sources close to the probe.

On Tuesday, the House select committee heard from poll worker Shaye Moss, who was falsely accused by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani alongside her mother Ruby Freeman of "rigging" the election count in Georgia with "suitcases" full of ballots for Biden.

Moss, who is Black, described people making "hateful" and "racist" threats of violence following the baseless accusations, including one message saying: "Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920."

"This turned my life upside down. I no longer give out my business card, I don't transfer calls," Moss testified.

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"I don't want anyone knowing my name... I don't go to the grocery store. Haven't been anywhere at all."

Freeman said in her deposition she had lost her good name and sense of security because "number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen."

The mother and daughter were among poll workers or election officials in several states who found themselves pressured to thwart the will of millions of voters based on bogus claims of fraud, the panel said.

The remaining hearings, which will resume Thursday but will then be paused until July, will focus even more of political violence from Trump's right-wing supporters, with a hearing led by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) that explores the path to extremism taken by many of the insurrectionists.



With additional reporting by AFP



https://www.rawstory.com/house-select-committee-on-jan-6/

 

Has any political party ever used propaganda, lies, and half truths to this extent to demonize and attack not only the opposition but also anyone who is not enthusiastically in line?

Wonder if we'll ever get to actually see any of these threats?

Anyone else see the similarities between Dr. Ford and Freeman?

 

Yes, the Republicans censured many of their own because they weren't in lockstep with Trump and his theft of the 2020 election.

 

Poor anon still having trouble with reading comprehension.

 

The hack fuck leftists know they dont have the support of the people, they know their collective radical agenda is being opposed.

The more politically radical they get, the more propaganda, lies, and half truths will be used to assist in gaining support, as they're of the opinion, nasty negative gutter running campaigning politics is a way to win.

They'll need another conference in the future to figure out how to steal a POTUS election again.

 

LOL! I would ask what you think I'm misunderstanding, but I already know you won't give a straight answer. You're in "full game mode" tonight!

 

Man behind J6 documentary needs 'two armed guards' due to Trump supporters' threats: BBC

Brad Reed
June 30, 2022



Alex Holder (Screen cap via BBC)


Documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, whose film "Unprecedented" examines the final days of former President Donald Trump's White House, revealed this week that he needs armed security guards due to threats from Trump supporters.

In an interview with the BBC, Holder said that he's been getting multiple subpoena requests ever since he was called to testify earlier this month before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots.

"Well, my life changed about a week ago and I now literally have two armed guards outside this studio right now that follow me around everywhere," Holder told the BBC.

He then elaborated on accusations he's faced from conspiracy-minded Trump supporters.

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"According to some, I’m an undercover FBI agent," he said. "Some think I’m an MI6 spy, and there’s all sorts of conspiracies and threats that are coming through."

Fellow Jan. 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson has also received significant security due to threats she's faced ever since giving explosive testimony about the twice-impeached former president's actions before, during, and after the Capitol riots.

Watch the video below.

https://www.rawstory.com/alex-holder-2657590845/

 

Wonder if we'll ever get to see or hear these threats?

 

Any democrat win will be met with cries and whines of "stolen election"!

Trump taught you well in believing your own lies.