Eric Swalwell: Paul Gosar Was Radicalized By Donald Trump

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that Donald Trump had radicalized Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ).

Video of Rep. Swalwell:

Eric Swalwell said connected #TheLastWord that Paul Gosar was radicalized by Donald Trump and that his anime video was a telephone to enactment for unit against Congress. pic.twitter.com/2YU4bqJcPI

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Rep. Swalwell said connected MSNBC’s The Last Word:

It’s hard to ticker Jennifer Gosar, frankly, to spot immoderate household member suffer a brother. I mean, these are radical that grew up unneurotic with the same parents, lived successful the aforesaid house, and she’s condemning her brother on nationalist television. I don’t instrumentality that lightly. Her member was radicalized by Donald Trump. He was ne'er condemned by Kevin McCarthy and he’s been unleashed on the Congress and, you know, Lawrence, you could rightfully say wherefore bash we attraction what Paul go — Paul Gosar puts connected the internet? There is weird worldly retired there so if Paul Gosar wants to alert around with swords, who cares?

We attraction due to the fact that Paul Gosar is a member of Congress and millions of radical watched that video, and the somesthesia successful Washington is quite hot. It’s rather volatile present because many of america spent hours successful a safe room arsenic rioters were attacking police officers earlier we could get backmost to the floor, and truthful when helium has a phantasy about beheading 1 of my colleagues, it’s not a phantasy to deliberation that this could beryllium a telephone to action from radical who watched it online.

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Gosar has been radicalized successful a akin mode to idiosyncratic being radicalized by al-Qaeda oregon ISIS.

Rep. Swalwell was correct. People similar Paul Gosar took to Donald Trump similar gasoline and a match. Gosar whitethorn person been connected his mode to radicalization earlier Trump came along, but the failed erstwhile president took it to a full different unsafe level.

Donald Trump has radicalized the Republican Party, and anyone who treats this menace similar politics, arsenic usual, is endangering America.