Newsmax host compares Joe Biden's democracy speech to secessionist rhetoric before the Civil War
Chris Plante: “I honestly think that the Republican leadership in Washington ought to be returning rhetoric in kind and scorching the Earth around the Democrats as they murder and loot their way through American cities”
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From the September 28, 2023, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad
CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): This reminds me of the Democrat rhetoric leading up to their firing on Fort Sumter going to the Civil War, you know what I mean? That kind of rhetoric from Mr. Uniter here is just as incendiary as anything -- and are MAGA people out there shooting people in Chicago and Washington and looting Philadelphia and sacking and plundering the country from coast to coast now? And this extreme, extreme rhetoric from this guy is beneath contempt.
MERCEDES SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): But he knows that he's in trouble when it comes to this election. I'm sure they've done focus groups on messaging and say, go back to attacking MAGA folks make them into the far-right extremists. The reality is what we're seeing at the border this -- that he himself has created -- that has shown that he has been benefiting drug traffickers, he's hurting children, he's put human traffickers in charge of the border. And, literally, he goes to Arizona, Joe Biden, and doesn't even go to figure out what's happening, talk to our men and women --
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PLANTE: That rhetoric - I honestly think that the Republican leadership in Washington ought to be returning rhetoric in kind and scorching the Earth around the Democrats as they murder and loot their way through American cities. Just, you know, not to bring facts into it or anything like that. MAGA extremist people that serve in the military and serve as police officers, please.