Biden pins Pelosi attack on Republicans despite militant rhetoric, violence against Republicans

Joe Biden Friday blamed Republicans for an attack that morning on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Responding to a 911 call by Pelosi around 2:30 AM, police arrived at Pelosi’s house to find him and another man struggling over a hammer, which the suspect ultimately wrested from Pelosi and used to assault him. 

The suspect, David DePape, has been described as a “Castro-supporting nudist transient from Berkley, California and on the Far Left. 

During a speech in Pennsylvania Friday night, Biden pinned the attack on Republicans. 

“There’s too much violence, political violence, too much hatred, too much vitriol,” Biden said. “And what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections, COVID being a hoax, that it’s all a bunch of lies, and it not affect people who may not be so well balanced.” 

“What makes us think that it’s not going to corrode the political climate?” he continued. “Enough is enough is enough. Every person of good conscience needs to clearly and unambiguously stand up against violence in our politics, no matter what your politics are.” 

Biden’s remarks come as violent attacks on Republicans have been escalating amid militant rhetoric by Democrat leaders, including Biden himself. 

Last week, a campaign canvasser for Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) Sunday was brutally attacked by four men for being a Republican while knocking on doors and handing out fliers in Hialeah, Florida. The canvasser was wearing a DeSantis hat and Rubio t-shirt. 

Last month, two volunteers for GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s gubernatorial campaign were attacked when an unidentified man chased them and tried to drag them out of their car, breaking both side mirrors in the process. 

The incident comes just days after a 41-year-old North Dakota man murdered a teenager because the latter was Republican.   

Shannon Brandt told police that he deliberately ran down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car because Ellingson was part of a “Republican extremist group,” a phrase Joe Biden and other Democrat officials have been repeating often in recent weeks with increasingly threatening and violent rhetoric.  

Biden has been tweeting relentlessly about “MAGA extremists” and “MAGA Republicans” and declaring them enemies of the state. In an August speech being referred to by some as a “Hitler impression,” Biden stood against a blood red backdrop flanked by US Marines and lashed out against the “threat” of Trump supporters.    

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”    

“But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”    

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”    

“They spread fear and lies –- lies told for profit and power.”    

“MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution.  They do not believe in the rule of law.  They do not recognize the will of the people.”     

“[They] believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail,” he continued, adding that if not properly dealt with, "MAGA extremists” will turn the country into “a nation of fear, division and darkness.”      

Biden also accused his political opponents of having placed a “dagger to the throat” of the country’s way of life and urged the masses to “stop the assault” being perpetrated by “MAGA Republicans”.    

Last month, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), urged people to “kill and confront” the “MAGA movement," and Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) called for a literal “call to arms” against Americans who are pro-life.    

“The word ‘hypocrites,’ it doesn’t even go far enough to call them out on what they’re doing,” said Hirono before calling for “literally a call to arms in our country.”