Former Republican congressmen warn Donald Trump inciting violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : "On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to overturn Biden's 2020 election win.
37% : "Well he's never really been about expanding the base of support for his candidacy," Dent said when asked how the Truth Social post would help Trump in the general election.
26% : In a statement to various outlets, Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, claimed without evidence that Democrats had called for political violence against Republicans and did not explicitly say that sharing the image was not a call for violence.
23% : "This is one of those things where we can't move past the headline: Donald 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.
23% : The riot erupted following repeated claims made by Trump that the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud.
23% : Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him," the statement read.
17% : "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.
14% : 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.
12% : Walsh previously represented Illinois' 8th Congressional District from 2011 to 2013 and later emerged as an outspoken conservative critic of Trump.
4% : The video sparked a new wave of accusations that Trump is attempting to encourage political violence against his opponents, including from Biden's campaign.

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