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Read Replies (2) | Respond to Republicans on Saturday blasted Donald Trump over a recent social media post he shared and accused him of stoking political violence.now the presumptive 2024 GOP nominee for president, kickstarted another storm of controversy on Friday when he shared a post to his social media platform, Truth Social. The post included a video taken of a pick-up truck driving down a highway covered in various flags and decals espousing conservative political slogans and causes. Among the decals was an image on the tailgate of the vehicle which appeared to depict Trump's presumptive general election opponent, President Joe Biden , hog-tied as if he had been taken captive.encourage political violence against his opponents , including from Biden's campaign."Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it's time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6 ," Michael Tyler, the campaign's communications director, said in a statement.CNN to discuss the social media post and condemn Trump's rhetoric. Walsh previously represented Illinois' 8th Congressional District from 2011 to 2013 and later emerged as an outspoken conservative critic of Trump . He launched an unsuccessful primary challenge against the former president in 2020 and formally left the Republican Party after suspending the campaign and now identifies as an independent. Dent previously represented Pennsylvania's 15th District from 2005 to 2018, and endorsed Biden for president in 2020 and Democrat Josh Shapiro for his state's gubernatorial race in 2022. onald Trump shared an image of the president of the United States tied in the back of a pick-up truck, bound and gagged," Walsh said. "I mean, stop there...This is way beyond politics, this is an incitement to violence. ..None of this is surprising. Donald Trump, and this is a scary thing to say because he's the Republican Party nominee...wants there to be violence in this country. He wanted it before January 6, he wanted what happened on January 6 to happen, he's doing the same damn thing now, and it's right, by the way, for the Biden administration to aggressively go after him."Department of Justice (DOJ), meanwhile, indicted the former president last year for his alleged role in the insurrection , which he maintains his innocence.Nikki Haley people, he hasn't done any of that. It's clear to me he doesn't seem to care about broadening the base."
