Democrat President Joe Biden has walked back previous remarks that could be interpreted as calls for violence against his political opponents.
Earlier this month, Biden called on his supporters to put President Donald Trump in the “bullseye,” Breitbart reported.
Biden made the comments just days before the failed assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday.
However, Biden now wants to distance himself from inflammatory remarks in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump.
The assassination attempt against Trump turned the political world upside down.
After years of harsh rhetoric that included strong language against Trump, Democrats attempted to back peddle, including Biden.
While little is still known about the shooter’s motivations, it has been confirmed that he was a Democrat donor.
“NBC Nightly News” host Lester Holt pressed Biden Monday on his use of such strong rhetoric.
Biden ultimately admitted that it “was a mistake” to use the metaphoric language.
The president now claims that he “meant focus on him, focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate.”
Biden usually gets a pass from the media.
However, as it becomes increasingly clear that Biden is no longer fit for office and won’t likely win re-election, the worm has turned.
Holt was not about to let Biden off the hook as many are linking the president’s rhetoric to the shooting.
“Well, let’s talk about the conversation this has started, and it’s really about language, what we say out loud, and the consequences of those,” Holt began.
“You called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago, you said it’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.
“There’s some dispute about the context.
“But I think you appreciate –,” Holt said before Biden cut him off.
“I didn’t say crosshairs,” Biden said.
“I was talking about focus on — look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.”
“Yeah, the term was ‘bullseye,'” Holt shot back.
Biden continued, “It was a mistake to use the word — I didn’t say crosshairs. I meant bullseye.”
“I meant focus on him, focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate,” Biden said.
“Focus — there’s a whole range of things that— look, I’m not the guy that said I want to be a dictator on day one,” Biden added, repeating false claims about Trump.
“I’m not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election,” Biden claimed.
“I’m not the guy who said that I wasn’t going to accept the outcome of this election automatically.
“You can’t only love your country when you win.
“And so, the focus was on what he’s saying.”
WATCH:
As reported in Politico, Biden decried that political discourse has become “very heated” and that it’s time to “cool it down” in the immediate aftermath of the attempt on Trump’s life.
While Trump narrowly avoided death, the shooting killed a bystander and wounded two others.
However, Biden is trying to ignore his own history of hate.
One of the most notorious came in a screed in September 2022 in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, lit up in blood red.
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said at the time.
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backward — backward 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,” he continued.
“They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.
“And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections,” the president claimed.
The Left has been making hysterical predictions about Trump’s authoritarian bent since before he was elected in 2016.
After years of convincing leftists that they should be afraid of him and his supporters, they now want to downplay the very incendiary rhetoric that got us here.
READ MORE – Russia Blames ‘Atmosphere’ of Biden Government for Assassination Attempt on Trump
