San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan released the following statement on Sunday:
“Like all Americans, I am shocked and horrified by the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania yesterday.
“I’m thankful former President Trump was not seriously injured, or worse, and sickened to hear that a bystander was killed in front of his family and two others were seriously harmed.
“There’s no room for political violence in our nation. Irrespective of our political parties and beliefs, as Americans we must commit ourselves to settling our disagreements using the tools of democracy–rational debate, the popular vote, the judicial system–and never through violence.
“Our family is praying for those killed and injured yesterday, and for their families; for the law enforcement agents whose action prevented further tragedy; and for a world in which all of us do better in showing our respect and love for one another. The fate of our nation, and our form of government, depends upon it.”
Matt Mahan’s pal Sam Liccardo’s largest donor, Reid Hoffman, said he wanted to make Trump an actual martyr the day before the attempted assassination on Trump.
Mahan should publicly demand that Liccardo renounce Hoffman and return the money.
Matt, why is RFK, Jr still being denied Secret Service protection? Why aren’t you publicly demanding it to avoid more political violence that you supposedly deplore? Haven’t enough Kennedy’s been assassinated already?
How about an end to all of the lies about Trump? The media and corrupt politicians need to stop broadcasting lies about this man. Enough is enough.
Trump has now called for Secret Service protection for his opponent, RFK Jr. Why won’t Democrats do so? Why has the Biden administration refused such protection while lower level Dems stay silent?
Mayor Mahan recently doubled his bodyguard but evidently thinks presidential candidates at odds with the DNC don’t deserve protection from political violence.
@NWS, the leftist hatred, where most overwhelmingly has been and will be, will revive soon enough.
Don’t forget what will happen with the hatred and intolerance plus the extended vile temper tantrum should Trump be elected President again. The tantrums with an R winning the White House have been progressively worse.
Dems just gave RFK Jr Secret Service protection, proving it was petty politics all along.
Rather than grandstanding about “political violence” elsewhere, shouldn’t Mayor Mahan be warning SJPD not to repeat its performance of standing by during a political riot like it did during the administration of his mentor Liccardo in 2016?
https://www.courthousenews.com/roughed-up-trump-supporters-settle-with-san-jose/
Vacancy Vaquero —
Yes, Liccardo is a chief enabler of political violence over a period of years. Not only did he conspire in allowing the brutal physical assaults on Trump supporters in San Jose 2016 (he now tweets he was acting in misinformation at the time), he knelt with BLM protestors in 2020, and told the police to stand down during the seemingly staged antifa protests at his house (at which curiously none of his windows was broken). One of his immediate neighbors, a mutual friend, was physically assaulted by the thugs in November 2020.
And, as mentioned, Liccardo also accepts money from donors who urge the assassination of Trump, in 2024. He obviously thinks it is acceptable political discourse. And by his silence so does Mayor Mahan.
VACANCY VAQUERO: But Liccardo blamed the 2016 rally violence on Trump, including afterward.
It sold, as it sells today, to the easily and cheaply bought.
Matt, the Biden campaign just sent out an email, less than a week AFTER the assassination attempt, asserting Trump wants to put 10 million people in detention camps. Are you going to specifically renounce that sort of inflammatory rhetoric? Because if it were true (it’s not) maybe some lunatic would get the idea shooting “Literally Hitler” is justified, wouldn’t ya say?
By the way, Matt, after you and your ilk banned the unjabbed and the unboosted from City Hall, participating in society, from holding jobs, banking, keeping kids, going to the grocery store or receiving life-saving surgery, what was going to be your Final Solution for the unvaxxed?
Better yet, Reed Hoffman should be arrested for instigating an attempted assassination of Trump and the murder and attempted murder of two other innocent bystanders. If he was a Republican, he would already be in jail. There is Your Double Standard of Justice in This Country!