Trump Attacks ‘Arsonist’ Democrats as Polls Show House at Risk
- President escalates coarse rhetoric toward opposition party
- Claims are often riddled with hyperbole and inaccuracies
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President Donald Trump used to attack Democrats as mere obstructionists determined to block his agenda. But with the opposition poised to seize control of the House, he’s painting them in far darker strokes -- as dangerous socialists hell-bent on turning the country into a poverty-stricken crime scene.
“You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob and that’s what the Democrats have become,” Trump said Tuesday during a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “They would turn our country so fast into Venezuela. And Venezuela’s not doing too well, folks.”