[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 146 (Thursday, September 19, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5509]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      APOLOGIZE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I will comment on the horrific events of 
a week ago. For the second time in 3 months, President Donald Trump was 
the subject of an assassination attempt. The question is why and what 
can we do to prevent it from happening again.
  I have followed politics my whole life. I have never seen such 
language of hate coming from President Trump's opposition as I have 
heard from anybody else.
  Again and again, President Joe Biden has said: There is one 
existential threat. It is Donald Trump.
  President Biden has said: Trump and the MAGA Republicans, whatever 
that is, represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our 
Republic.
  They claim it is going to be the end of our democracy. I am not sure 
they know what democracy means. In any event, their clear intent is to 
tell the American people that Donald Trump will permanently change the 
type of Nation we have.
  This is absurd, and they ought to be called out for it by the 
mainstream press. They ought to be forced to--not forced, but begged to 
until they eventually do apologize to President Trump and say there is 
no evidence this is going to be the end of democracy, whatever that 
means, so we can avoid a third assassination attempt.
  I beg these people to please come to the floor here and apologize to 
President Trump.

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