By Evaristo Lara
Jay Robert Pritzker, governor of Illinois, blames President Donald Trump for allowing “political violence” to begin to be seen as acceptable in the United States.
During an interview given to the website Politicalthe Californian billionaire criticized the nation’s leader for being the one who fuels the violence revolving around him.
“Look, our leaders set the tone in this country, and I think the president of the United States has set the tone where political violence is acceptable. He himself has defended it before. It’s a terrible thing,” he said.
Pritzker then urged citizens not to remain silent and reject any hint of violence revolving around politics.
“We must raise our voices against political violence. I firmly believe that it is okay to disagree, but without being unpleasant,” he said.
However, in a dialogue with the television network Fox Records dataSteve Scalise, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, responded to JB Pritzker demanding that he analyze how he and his party are the ones who repeatedly promote violence.
“Governor Pritzker needs to look in the mirror, and that’s where he needs to start. Stop using the inflammatory rhetoric that others deliberately use, this has to stop,” he said.
The Louisiana Republican even recalled how, last year, the president’s opponents, including Pritzker, compared him to Adolf Hitler.
“I want to try to blame the Republicans when it is the right that is being attacked again and again by the left,” he stressed.
And to put more emphasis on his words, Steve Scalise pointed out that those who have tried to cause harm to the American president resorted to the same phrases adopted by Democrats to show off Trump.
“Many of those who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump have repeated the same words — ‘Nazi, threat to democracy’ — that people like Governor Pritzker used,” he noted.
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