Ten days after a second assassin attempted to permanently remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential race, United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo put out a call to “extinguish him for good.”
“How did we get here? Let’s extinguish him for good,” Raimondo said during her appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.
The former Rhode Island governor was not shy about her reasoning. In fact, she admitted that eliminating the Republican from the race for the White House would pave the way for her preferred candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, to win the 2024 election.
“We have an answer, we have a remarkably talented candidate who is sincere, who’s pragmatic, who’s open — let’s just get it done,” Raimondo said.
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski tried to throw Raimondo a line to clarify her incendiary comments.
“And extinguish, you mean vote him out?” Brzezinski asked minutes after she claimed repeatedly that Raimondo joined the show “in her personal capacity.”
Raimondo initially took Brzezinski’s bait.
“Yes, just vote him out,” Raimondo said, “so he goes away.”
She then promptly continued her violent rhetoric by demanding Americans “banish [Trump] from American politics,” something Democrats have tried to do via lawfare for years now.
Raimondo’s anti-Trump tirade came shortly after she claimed that the man who recently survived a bullet to the head “just shoots from the hip” and “will bring chaos, unpredictability, and vindictiveness” to the White House if elected again.
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