After Trump Shooting, GOP Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Saying ‘Some Folks Need Killing’ Hits Different

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 21, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Malcolm X made a remark about “chickens come home to roost” that sent white America and many prominent Black figures into a frenzy of outrage. (I’ve always assumed it was the fear of white rage that made so many Black leaders cringe, but whatever.)

Malcolm was more or less talking about the karma of white supremacy, but the underlying message, you reap what you sow, can be applied to the shooting of Donald Trump, which one could easily speculate is a result of the violent rhetoric he and his loyal followers have been all about since the start of his first campaign, honestly, but especially since he’s been drowning in legal woes, including the 34 felonies he was convicted of in May.

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For a prime example of this, one needn’t even go back further than last week, when North Carolina’s lieutenant governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson, said from a church pulpit that “some folks need killing” in reference to alleged violent criminals who haven’t yet been granted due process and “liberals” who are simply of a different ideology.

North Carolina GOP gov nominee Mark Robinson endorses political violence in June 30 video surfaced by @newrepublic: "Kill them! Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad! … Some folks need killing! It's time for somebody to say it." https://t.co/GVKCE7QvVV pic.twitter.com/AjfAxo08xE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 5, 2024

No, the two events aren’t directly connected, but Robinson, a dedicated “Black friend” to the MAGA world, explicitly advocated for political violence, and then, a week later, political violence happened, only not in the direction he intended.

Robinson isn’t the only one. In fact, on that same week that he gave his speech about killing in a building reserved for followers of the book that is pretty clear in its 10 Commandments about killing being bad, the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, was promoting Project 2025, indicated that it would be the catalyst for a “second American Revolution” that would “remain bloodless,” but only if “the left” stayed in line.

Last September, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joined other Republicans in threatening another Civil War in response to indictments against Trump. Before that, Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock (R) warned his constituents that a “civil war” would break out if “the government continues to weaponize these departments against conservatives, and the citizens and the taxpayers,” despite offering zero evidence that conservatives are specifically being targeted. (Spoiler alert: They are not.) These, of course, are far from the only examples.

From The Hill:

In Georgia, state Sen. Colton Moore warned politico-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon that any prosecution of Trump would lead to a likely civil war. “I don’t want to have to draw my rifle,” Moore said. Concerningly, Moore also seemed to imply that Georgia state troopers would be willing participants in any effort to bust Trump out of jail. That last bit may be fantastical thinking on Moore’s part, but he’s hardly alone.

Former Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor also lent her voice to the chorus of war cries, describing Trump’s indictments as “treason” and “a hijacking of our country,” telling podcaster William Wallis, “This is war, and I hope and pray it gets resolves before we use guns…we’re at war right now, a war for our freedom.”

Back in March, Trump himself went out of his way to speculate on the “bloodbath” that would ensue if he lost another election.

The point is, these people speak about political violence like it’s a love language of theirs, then they’re shocked when political violence happens, or they simply take no responsibility for it like when Trump’s verbal violence inspired actual violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6.

Here’s the commander-in-bleach-blonde-bad-built-butch-bodies, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, responding to Trump’s shooting by erroneously insisting that the “left wants a civil war” and that they “have been trying to start one for years,” despite the aforementioned fact that it’s Republicans that have been calling for it, and despite her own rhetoric lamenting that the Jan. 6 riot wasn’t “successful” and her past remarks calling for violence against prominent Democrats such as the members of the Squad and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who, lest we forget, was the target of right-wing political violence along with her husband in 2022. (Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Trump supporters to acknowledge that while they’re clutching their pearls over Trump missing a small piece of his ear.)

This you? pic.twitter.com/BadXW3XdIW

— EJ (@itsmine49) July 14, 2024

Marge Greene says in 2022 she is going to “blow away the Democrats’ socialist agenda,” then blows up a car with “socialism” on it with a 50-caliber rifle she is auctioning off for contributions. pic.twitter.com/b10wGwVVW2

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 18, 2021

Setting aside the fact that the man who shot Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican, conservatives immediately trying to pin Trump’s shooting on “the left” is ridiculous considering the shooting looks more like an example of “the right” receiving the same energy they put out.

Chickens came home to roost, it’s just fortunate for Trump that they didn’t have better aim.

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