Following the assassination attempt on former President and current GOP nominee Donald Trump, the Lincoln Project posted on social media that "political violence has no place in American life."
However, not many people who have been paying close attention thought they meant that, considering one of the founders of the Lincoln Project, Rick Wilson, had this to say on MSNBC in 2015, showing that this is what they wanted all along:
They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.
Wilson had this to say on Tuesday about his comments from 2015:
A hundred other MAGA commentators and social media types and scamfluencers are attacking me, saying 'Oh, well, you once said that donors have to put a bullet in Trump.' Folks, metaphor and rhetoric are different. Folks, don't hide from a confrontation about Trump. Don't walk away from the fight. He is not a martyr, he is not a saint, he is not a good man, he is not a great man; I am glad he lived. I am thankful to God that he lived. I am very very very grateful that providence spared his life. I am beyond grateful. I think it would have broken this country in a fundamental way.
Wilson has always been anti-Trump, and the Lincoln Project is populated with staunch Never-Trumpers. They, along with MSNBC and other media outlets, share some responsibility for the assassination attempt due to their inflammatory rhetoric, including statements like "Put a bullet in Donald Trump." While we may have deep policy disagreements and divergent views on the future of the country, we never resort to threatening Biden or any Democrat with such perilous language. However, some on the left appear to find it acceptable to use this kind of language when speaking about Trump.
Now, Lincoln Project did not even wait one week to continue their hateful rhetoric, posting on X a clip of Adolf Hitler and comparing him to Trump:
Hitler’s power wasn’t taken; it was given. And once he had control, he enacted his horrifying, dictatorial agenda ... The same dynamic is at play with Trump.
In the 1930s, Hitler did not just seize power. It was handed to him. By the wealthy, by the powerful, by a compliant elite.
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This group of anti-Trumpers is just as bad as MSNBC's Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, Chris Haynes, Ari Melber, and the rest of that group, who spew nothing but Trump hatred.
But conservatives were having none of it. They immediately called out the Lincoln Project for their continuous dangerous language.