Disturbing Trump campaign email screams ‘haul out the guillotine!’
A fundraising email blast from the chief political action committees supporting Donald Trump shared a troubling new message: “haul out the guillotine.”
The email went on to blast “sicko” Kathy Griffin for her 2017 image holding a mock-severed Trump head and instead accused his Democratic rivals of wanting to behead him.
“The SAD and HORRIFIC TRUTH is that this is STILL the Sick Dream of every Trump-Deranged lunatic out there!” the message says. “And it’s not just me they want gone, THEY’RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU! SICK SICK SICK!”
Over the past two weeks, between messages saying “I love you” and inviting supporters to dinner, emails “signed” by Trump and sent by the joint fundraising committee supporting his presidential campaign have repeatedly mentioned “revenge” and “war” and proudly labeled him a “political prisoner” who doesn’t mind going to jail.
Fundraising messages have also falsely claimed that President Joe Biden directed the FBI to “take out” the former president during a law enforcement search of his Mar-a-Lago compound.
They follow a trend of apparent attempts to bait supporters with calls to violence with eye-popping subject lines and all-caps calls to action in messages that then paint Trump as a victim of political persecution.
The campaign’s escalating rhetoric is synced with his self-described campaign of “retribution,” increasingly colliding with the multiple criminal investigations and lawsuits against him, and as prosecutors and judges warn against credible threats fueled by his statements.
Moments after a Manhattan jury found the former president guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30, the fundraising campaign blasted out a message saying “I was just convicted in a