Former President, and now convicted felon, Donald Trump has sparked outrage with an email being slammed as "unhinged" in which he claims his enemies 'want him beheaded'.
The Republican White House hopeful sparked fierce backlash with critics calling a fundraising campaign email "disgusting" and dangerous. It was sent to supporters with the headline: "HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!"
In the email, Trump claimed: "They want me BEHEADED after this verdict! And it's not just me they want gone, THEY'RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU!" The email went on to blast comedian Kathy Griffin for her 2017 image in which she held a mock-severed head representing Trump, calling her a "sicko".
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Trump's email was full of capital letters and violent calls to action (Twitter)Ms Griffin was investigated by the Secret Service in 2017 after sharing the controversial photo online. The email continued: "The radical-left CHEERED! Obama and Biden were SILENT! And the Fake News BLASTED it everywhere! The SAD and HORRIFIC TRUTH is that this is STILL the Sick Dream of every Trump-Deranged lunatic out there!"
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CNN's Jim Acosta was among those who questioned the latest campaign email. He shared a screenshot of the email to his X, Twitter, account, saying: "Trump's latest fundraising appeal says 'haul out the guillotine'." Before going on to ask whether the presidential nominee was truly "out of control" following his hush money conviction.
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CNN's Jim Acosta asked if Trump was 'out of control' (CNN)"Nobody's really made a big deal out of" the email, noted Acosta on CNN. He went on to ask: "Are we getting a little too numb to this kind of rhetoric? Is it getting out of control? Is he out of control?"
He appeared alongside CNN Political Commentator and Democratic Strategist Maria Cardona and Republican Strategist Rina Shah. In response, Shah said: "Trump has been out of control for a long time because what he's wanted to do is whack this whole notion of impartiality... that impartiality is what makes us a country. We aren't a country if we can't look at our institutions and say these institutions protect the very American values that I know so many Conservatives care about, which are freedom, equality, justice.
"If we don't have those things we're not a nation at all. Trump wants to whack those things away just because he's mentally unstable on that day and wants to talk about a guillotine and wants to say that they want to take me to the guillotine. Buddy, it was you that was fine with people doing that to your vice president."
Jim Acosta spoke about the email with CNN Political Commentator and Democratic Strategist Maria Cardona and Republican Strategist Rina Shah (CNN)She was referring to threats from Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021, who chanted 'hang Mike Pence'. Trump later told White House staff his vice president "deserves" the chants directed at him during the now infamous Capitol riot.
Amanda Carpenter, a writer at the nonpartisan nonprofit Protect Democracy, shared an article on Trump's email calling it: "Completely unacceptable. Beyond irresponsible. Gross. Disgusting. Unhinged." She went on to say: "Just to recap, a self-described D-list comedian did something truly repugnant in 2017, which got her fired from numerous jobs. And that's why the campaign operation for the former president of the United States thinks it's fine to emails [sic] with the headline 'haul out the guillotine' to raise money to go back to the WH."
Trump's rhetoric has grown increasingly aggressive in the wake of his hush money trial (AFP via Getty Images)Recent fundraising messages from the Trump campaign have also falsely claimed President Joe Biden directed the FBI to "take out" the ex-President during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. It follows a trend of recent apparent attempts from the Trump team to bait supporters with calls to violence using highly charged subject lines and writing calls to action in capital letters in messages that go on to paint Trump as a victim of political persecution.
It's not a new rhetoric for Trump, throughout his numerous criminal and civil trials, Trump has regularly branded them a 'witch hunt' saying they are 'politically motivated'. However, there has been an escalation in the language used, particularly after he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in a bid to keep her quiet about an alleged affair as he campaigned for the White House in 2016.
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