Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., one day after sparring with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her description of President Donald Trump’s federal troop deployment in the nation’s capital as a “fascist takeover,” told Newsmax on Friday that such rhetoric is fueling violence around the country, including with the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
“My reaction to what happened yesterday is people who are just commonsense people, decent people, moral people, we cannot be quiet against this insanity that comes from the radical left,” Donalds told “Newsline.”
He added that Tlaib “was trying to once again defame and dehumanize the people that she disagrees with politically … following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there are nutjobs out in the country who are listening to her rhetoric, scribbling that stuff, putting it on the casing of bullets, and then shooting people.”
Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.