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Media Ignore Biden’s Threat to Nuke Americans. Let’s Compare That to Donald Trump

Ben Johnson
Media Ignore Biden’s Threat to Nuke Americans. Let’s Compare That to Donald Trump
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Although the media magnified every stray statement and gruff tweet by President Donald Trump into a threat of violence, they ignored President Joe Biden’s veiled threat to rain nuclear missiles on American citizens during his remarks on gun control Wednesday.

“Those that say … all this stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government — Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots,” he said, referring to a familiar quotation from Thomas Jefferson. “What’s happened is that there never been — if you want, if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”

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