JB Pritzker BLAMES Trump for Violent Threats Against Jews?! Robby Soave | RISING

0:04 Well, the tendency to blame everything that anyone does that's

0:07 bad and wrong on President Donald Trump is alive and well.

0:11 Now, Illinois Governor JB Pritsker is getting in on that game.

0:15 Pritsker, billionaire Jewish man,

0:17 knows he's received increased threats of violence.

0:19 And when pressed on the causes of that, he says it's Trump's rhetoric.

0:23 Here we go again.

0:25 I think the environment, look,

0:27 our our leaders set the tone in this country and I think that the president

0:31 of the United States has set a tone where political violence is okay.

0:35 He's advocated it himself before.

0:38 It's a terrible thing.

0:39 I mean, he's experienced target.

0:41 That's what I'm saying.

0:42 He he he's experienced the the other side of that.

0:45 We got to stand up against this.

0:47 We we need to be speaking out against political violence.

0:50 I'm a big believer in it's okay to disagree but not be disagreeable.

0:56 As the interviewer Jonathan Martin of Politico notes that Trump has

0:59 himself been the victim of several serious attempts on his life.

1:03 One just a week and a half ago when

1:05 a madman attempted to enter the White House correspondents dinner.

1:08 Now this guy wasn't there to kill Trump and Trump's

1:10 entire administration because he was

1:12 radicalized by the president's edgy rhetoric.

1:15 He was there because he reads and watches

1:17 and consumes a lot of normie liberal Democrat stuff.

1:22 For all the complaining about Trump's rhetoric,

1:24 you'd think we'd hear more about how

1:26 unhinged liberal rhetoric about Trump has become.

1:29 Hitler, fascist, etc.

1:31 No wonder there are disturbed and demented

1:33 individuals who take those assertions seriously.

1:36 But note in particular that Pritsker

1:38 says the anti-Jewish harassment he receives, that's somehow Trump's fault, too.

1:43 Watch this.

1:44 because of the political violence.

1:46 I think that the anti-semites out there and the people

1:49 who are racist because they know that I stand

1:51 up for communities of color um have come out

1:54 of the woodwork and you know and I receive threats.

1:57 I'm sure that politicians across the country

1:59 are receiving more threats than they have before.

2:02 Uh but I hear about it and in particular

2:04 sometimes I hear the mention of my Judaism,

2:07 right, of my religion that has spiked in the last couple years.

2:12 Yeah.

2:11 Let's not pretend that anti-semitism is rising solely on the far right.

2:16 There's definitely an anti-semitic stray in some conservative circles.

2:19 I concede that.

2:20 But there are no far-right protesters descending

2:23 on college campuses and blocking Jewish students

2:25 from getting to class or publishing leaflets

2:27 celebrating terrorists murdering Jewish people on October 7th.

2:31 That is only a left-wing problem.

2:33 Maybe JB Pritsker should call out his own side from time to time.

2:37 Yet he's stuck on factory settings.

2:39 blame Trump for absolutely everything.

2:43 You know, at some point, leaders of the Democratic party,

2:45 they will have to confront the radicals in their own midst.

2:49 That's part of the reason they're so unpopular.

2:51 Average Americans don't trust them to say no

2:53 to the far-left when it comes to wokeness,

2:56 extreme taxation and regulation, or political radicalism.

2:59 Whether it's Antifa, Black Lives Matter, extreme anti-Jewish demonstrations.

3:04 If the Democratic Party isn't for that, let's hear someone say it.

3:08 Now, some Democrats managed to stand up to the far left.

3:11 One of them is Senator John Federman,

3:12 who's currently being bullied out of his own party

3:15 and may very well become a Republican before his next election.

3:19 I'm almost willing to bet on it.

3:21 Such is the fate of the last sensible moderate Democrat to become a Republican.

3:27 That That's ridiculous.

3:28 Um that's what's going to happen.

3:30 I like the factory settings line.

3:31 I'm not going to lie.

3:32 That was a good one.

3:32 Um I appreciated your little chuckle.

3:35 I don't know if they heard my laugh in the background.

3:37 I think, you know, it I always pause when it comes down

3:41 to trying to figure out who to blame for any violent act.

3:45 Uh I do think overall the country should try to figure out how

3:48 to be more civilized and I think that does start from the top down.

3:51 Um we often talk about the way that President

3:53 Trump behaves uh particularly every single day on Truth Social,

3:57 but also with real actions like putting photos of a man struggling with cancer,

4:02 Biden up as an auto pen in his office and making that appropriate thing to do.

4:06 But the behavior is childish to say the least.

4:09 Threatening.

4:09 No, childish.

4:10 Um, but it's just a disrespect of people

4:13 that we see often when he calls reporters Miss Piggy.

4:16 It's a lack of respect for people, right?

4:18 And so other than that, he said things like,

4:20 "I hate my enemies at Charlie Kirk's funeral." Um,

4:23 he said Second Amendment people could

4:25 stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges.

4:27 What does that mean to you?

4:29 if second amendment people who have

4:30 the guns should stop Hillary Clinton in 2016.

4:32 I mean, he said that people are

4:33 treasonous and evil when he talked about Democrats.

4:36 Um, he called the enemy from within when he talked about

4:40 he called him an illegitimate president,

4:41 but he's my he said the enemy from within.

4:44 So, he's talking about the people within our own country that we need to get.

4:48 Democrats say he's a threat to democracy and on the ballot

4:51 and they tr they didn't just say it, they took action.

4:54 He also said he wouldn't appear on the ballot.

4:56 Colorado did that.

4:57 They tried it.

4:58 No, I live there.

4:59 I know.

4:59 I live there.

4:59 I said that wasn't right.

5:00 I lived there.

5:02 He actually mentioned violence at rallies.

5:04 He said, "Knock the crap out of them." Remember that in 2016 that he

5:07 encouraged supporters in an Iowa rally to knock the crap out of protesters.

5:11 Um he said, "Fight like hell." When he talked about January 6th,

5:14 but said he didn't mean it like that.

5:16 Don't really fight.

5:17 Just fight with your willpower.

5:18 Remember that?

5:19 He argued that

5:19 the same way your sports team fights like hell.

5:22 Okay.

5:22 Okay.

5:22 So, you know, he said one really violent day, remember this, in 2024,

5:26 we should have like a purge type day

5:27 and that'll stop all the violence in the country.

5:29 Don't even squint like you don't remember that.

5:31 He said one really violent day will cure all this violence.

5:34 So, he suggested that we purge one another

5:36 like the movie and that will solve everything.

5:38 And you're laughing, but Jamie Prrisker can't bring this up.

5:41 He can't bring this up without saying,

5:42 "Oh, well, look over there." like yeah Democrat

5:44 you're saying Trump is a rhetoric is a victim of his own violent rhetoric

5:47 that the people trying to kill Trump who we know why they're trying to do

5:52 it because they write it in their manifesto

5:53 it's because they believe everything liberal

5:55 Democrat and mainstream media people say about

5:57 him and you're saying wait that's Trump's fault

6:00 did he say that did he say the White House correspondence dinner

6:02 attempted shooter I blame that instance on Trump did he say that exactly

6:06 said Trump is normalizing right extreme political rhetoric

6:08 and I'm saying Trump is not normalizing extreme

6:11 political rhetoric because there's extreme political rhetoric coming

6:14 out of the mouths of people on both sides,

6:16 all sides of the political and has been forever.

6:18 The White House correspondent Dennis Shooter uh wrote his manifesto and a lot

6:22 of that had to do with the accusations of pedophilia and Epstein.

6:25 Correct.

6:26 Yeah.

6:26 So that investigation was launched by your Republican

6:31 friend Thomas Massie and a Democrat.

6:35 So when we talk about bipartisanship,

6:36 then he must be affected by he must be affected by both parties.

6:40 Then this guy with the manifesto has to look at both parties and say,

6:43 "Wow, all the different people." Marjorie Taylor Green,

6:46 all the women senators that said, "Oh,

6:48 let's look into Epstein Moore." He should blame all those Republican people.

6:52 Congresswoman, a congresswoman.

6:52 Yes.

6:52 He should, right?

6:53 All the congresswoman, he should say, "Listen,

6:55 I blame everybody on that side as well as Democrats.

6:57 If you want to tie it all in a nice bow,

6:59 remember this is a bipartisan investigation.

7:01 And so if we're pointing to who might

7:03 have persuaded folks to act poorly or illegally,

7:07 then we need to if you're going to play that game because I think that's a never

7:10 thing is when you falsely insinuate that the president is was a complicit in sex

7:14 crimes against children about the most uh

7:16 extreme thing you can accuse someone of.

7:19 It's the most heinous crime in our society for good reason.

7:23 Uh that might motivate people.

7:25 Well, if you believe and so you make that insinuation with zero evidence

7:28 and if you believe in motivation,

7:29 then you have to believe that uh you know when a president

7:31 keeps screaming at the top of his lungs that the election

7:34 was stolen from him and somehow Democrats rigged the election

7:36 and people get so riled up that they storm our capital.

7:38 We're going to have that conver.

7:39 Yeah, let's let's go there because

7:40 you believe that rhetoric can incite violence,

7:44 but you won't connect that dot when it comes to January 6th.

7:46 So that's really confusing to me.

7:48 True.

7:48 One or the other.

7:49 Did President Trump incite that violence because the legal sense?

7:52 No.

7:53 Okay.

7:53 But he encouraged crazy people to do crazy things.

7:56 Do I hold him morally responsible for some of the consequences of that day?

8:01 Sure, I've said so.

8:02 I do.

8:03 Okay, great.

8:03 He should not have uh it would have there's

8:06 a duty and a responsibility to be a good steward

8:10 of the public faith in the role that he was

8:12 in and he hyped up a crowd that then went wild.

8:15 I don't think he's legally culpable for it.

8:18 Um, no.

8:20 People are responsible for their own choices just like the shooter.

8:22 But again, it's I I'm only responding in this way because it is Democrats

8:26 in the mainstream media who are always saying

8:28 it's the fault of Trump for everything everyone does.

8:30 I'm like, okay, but they're shooting at him.

8:33 That's not that's not your fault.

8:34 Then this is where this logic leads.

8:36 I mean, the president, it can't be one way.

8:38 It has to be both ways or no ways.

8:39 You know how politics both ways or no ways?

8:41 Politics.

8:42 Both ways or no ways.

8:44 Politics works by blaming the other side.

8:46 President spent his entire campaign season.

8:48 says you saying that saying that basically the Democrats have

8:53 put him in some type of prison where they're trying

8:55 to constantly imprison him like literally made his life a living.

8:58 I know he literally played the victim.

9:00 I know he played the victim and campaigned on that.

9:02 So my point is pointing fingers is the name of the game here.

9:05 Okay.

9:05 He he's doing the same thing.

9:06 He's trying to get Comey in jail for seashells.

9:10 So he's doing the same thing.

9:11 He's trying to get Leticia in jail.

9:12 He's trying to get Leticia J in jail for hairdresser.

9:15 I've said the seashells thing is stupid.

9:16 Okay.

9:16 I'm saying lamest terms.

9:18 Leticia hairdresser come seashells.

9:20 These are the cases that he's trying to fight.

9:22 So he's doing the same thing to his political foes that was done to him.

9:25 But he wants to point the finger when it's convenient and he can rally the base.

9:28 So we know how this game goes.

9:30 But I don't blame anybody who then decides to act

9:32 violently because of the things that are said, right?

9:34 We need to make sure that we're not saying this is one party's fault.

9:37 But everybody as elected officials should do better in trying to mirror

9:40 what they want to see from the constituents that they represent.

9:43 You don't want to see people just slapping each other up on the street.

9:45 You don't want to see people threatening each other or saying mean things.

9:48 So, let's all try to do a little bit better.

9:50 And it starts with the president.

9:51 JB Pritzkar is pointing that out.

9:52 The leader of the country is ill behaved.

9:56 Republicans MAGA will not accept the proposition

9:58 that only one side has to stand down.

10:01 Both sides have to stand down if that's going to be the case.

10:04 Okay.

10:04 There's only one president in charge right now.

10:05 He's only in one.

10:06 Okay.

10:06 But I I don't believe that Democratic commentators will be

10:10 able to resist blaming anything that goes wrong on Trump's rhetoric.

10:14 A commentator and the president are two

10:16 different things though is what I'm saying.

10:17 JB Pritzkar is talking about a president.

10:19 JB Pritzkar aspires to be the president.

10:20 He might run.

10:21 All right.

10:22 Is Iran is an Iran peace deal coming soon?

10:24 President Trump is signaling that might be the case,

10:27 but he's also issuing a warning.

10:29 Stick around.