{"id":11923,"date":"2019-08-02T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:53:28","slug":"menacing-invective-against-trump-creates-dangerous-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/menacing-invective-against-trump-creates-dangerous-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Menacing Invective Against Trump Creates Dangerous Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2018, Biden huffed, \u201cThey asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, \u2018If we were in high school, I\u2019d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s tough-guy braggadocio was apparently no slip. A year later, he doubled down on his physical threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea that I\u2019d be intimidated by Donald Trump? \u2026 He\u2019s the bully that I\u2019ve always stood up to. He\u2019s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I\u2019d smack him in the mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/31\/menacing-invective-against-trump-creates-dangerous-climate\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Biden huffed, \u201cThey asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, \u2018If we were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-36j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12029,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-do-they-hate-him-so\/","url_meta":{"origin":11923,"position":0},"title":"Why Do They Hate Him So?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up. 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