Scalise Fires Back After Dem Governor Makes Jaw-Dropping Claim About Political Violence

Liberty Check

• Shooting survivor Steve Scalise calls out Illinois governor’s dangerous rhetoric comparing Trump to Hitler
• Democrat leader blamed Trump for violence despite Trump being target of multiple assassination attempts
• Scalise warns radical left rhetoric is directly inspiring attacks on conservatives

House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., delivered a powerful rebuke to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker after the Democrat governor blamed President Donald Trump for fostering a climate of political violence in America.

“Governor Pritzker needs to look at the man in the mirror, and that’s where it needs to start,” Scalise told “Hannity” on Tuesday.

“Stop the inciteful rhetoric that he and others like him are using deliberately. They know what they’re doing – it needs to stop.”

Scalise, himself a survivor of a politically motivated shooting attack in 2017, didn’t hold back in confronting Pritzker’s dangerous accusations. The Illinois governor had told Politico that Trump has “set a tone where political violence is okay” and claimed the president “advocated it himself before.”

The Louisiana congressman reminded Americans of his own near-death experience when a left-wing extremist opened fire on Republican lawmakers during baseball practice in Virginia. Scalise was shot in the hip and arrived at the hospital with no blood pressure and no pulse.

Now he’s sounding the alarm about Democrats who continue using inflammatory language to describe President Trump—a man who has survived multiple assassination attempts.

“Literally days into Donald Trump’s second term, he was comparing the president to Hitler and to Nazis, and he does this over and over again,” Scalise said.

“He said, Republicans, remember that, Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. What does he mean by that?”

Pritzker’s comments came just days after a gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. The shooter’s manifesto specifically targeted Trump administration officials—everyone except FBI Director Kash Patel.

“He wants to try to blame Republicans when it’s the right that is being attacked by the left over and again,” Scalise said.

The Illinois governor has become notorious for repeatedly comparing Trump’s governance to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler during World War II—exactly the kind of extreme rhetoric that critics say fuels violence against conservatives.

“Many of those attempted assassins on Donald Trump have regurgitated those very same words — ‘Nazi, threat to democracy’—that people like Governor Pritzker used when they tried to kill the president,” Scalise told host Sean Hannity.

“So they need to stop doing it.”

Scalise warned that Democratic rhetoric is increasingly targeting Republicans and that the party’s far-left wing has completely taken control. He urged Americans to remember this dangerous pattern when they head to the polls.

“People need to vote this November because that is the kind of methodology and ideology that wants to take back over,” he said.

“We can’t let it happen.”

The Constitution must be defended.