The former president shared a video of a truck that featured a picture of a seemingly helpless Biden with his hands and feet tied up.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpĀ drew criticism Friday for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied PresidentĀ Joe BidenĀ painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign was quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trumpās efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to anĀ assault on the U.S. Capitol.
āTrump is regularly inciting political violence and itās time people take him seriously ā just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,ā said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaignās communications director.
Oh, we definitely shouldnāt ignore it, but the perps are the people producing and using it, not Trump for sharing it.
When Trump promotes this imagery, it is explicitly to incite somebody in his Cadre of cultish followers to act on it. All it takes is just one to act on it. Itās textbook stochastic terrorism.
I think theyāre both deserving of blame - the producers deserve the lionās share but Trump is amplifying the message. In the pretrump world a politician would get a load of shit for misusing their platform like that.
Wait what? If Trump walks down 5th avenue and shoots someone, should we blame the gun manufacturer?
Sharing a picture someone else took is not illegal.