{"id":1669547,"date":"2022-10-03T08:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669547"},"modified":"2022-10-03T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:09:13","slug":"conservatives-and-pro-lifers-face-political-violence-after-bidens-speech-branding-them-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-and-pro-lifers-face-political-violence-after-bidens-speech-branding-them-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives and Pro-Lifers Face Political Violence After Biden&#8217;s Speech Branding Them a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconservatives-and-pro-lifers-face-political-violence-after-bidens-speech-branding-them-a-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Several high-profile instances of political violence targeting conservatives have happened across America, including the death of a North Dakota teen and the shooting of an elderly pro-life woman, following President Joe Biden&#8217;s allegations that former President Donald Trump and his supporters are a &#8220;threat&#8221; to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/biden-doubles-down-against-maga-republicans-bellicose-soul-nation-speech\">Biden<\/a> said in a\u00a0Sept. 1, speech in which he also accused conservatives of promoting &#8220;authoritarian leaders&#8221; and fanning &#8220;the flames of political violence that are a threat &#8230; to the very soul of this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An 84-year-old pro-life woman is <a href=\"https:\/\/rtl.org\/prolife-volunteer-shot-interview\/\">recovering<\/a> after she was shot in the back and shoulder in Michigan last week while canvassing against Proposal 3, a measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state&#8217;s constitution,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/videos\/84-year-old-pro-life-woman-shot-while-going-door-door-talking-about-proposal-3-michigan\">Real America&#8217;s Voice<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the attacks occurred in traditionally red states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Houston suburb, two volunteers for Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s reelection campaign were assaulted last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-gov-abbotts-campaign-two-volunteers-assaulted-knocking-doors\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reported. The suspect chased the volunteers through the neighborhood, ripped off the side mirrors from the vehicle they were in and attempted to pull them out of the car, officials stated.<\/p>\n<p>In North Dakota, a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/crime\/north-dakota-man-released-jail-after-admitting-chasing-down-republican-teen\">released<\/a> on bond last month after he allegedly ran over\u00a018-year-old Cayler Ellingson because he thought the teen was a member of a &#8220;Republican extremist group.&#8221; Police records show the suspect, 41-year-old Shannon Brandt, had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08.<\/p>\n<p>Several GOP offices have been vandalized over this past month as well, including offices in Colorado,\u00a0Michigan and Florida, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-pro-lifers-victimized-political-violence-since-biden-called-trump-supporters-threat-u-s\">Fox News<\/a>. Additionally, a pro-life pregnancy center in\u00a0Oakland County, Mich., was reportedly vandalized with the threat, &#8220;If abortion is not safe neither are you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates told Fox that &#8220;President Biden condemns these attacks and has been clear that violence, threats of violence and vandalism are absolutely unacceptable \u2014 regardless of who is committing such acts or why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, a purportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/fbi-lists-ashli-babbitt-second-amendment-and-betsy-ross-flag-terror\">leaked FBI guide<\/a> in August listed the Second Amendment, the &#8220;Betsy Ross flag,&#8221; and Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt as &#8220;Domestic Violent Terrorism Symbols&#8221; used by militant extremist groups in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/whistleblowers\/fbi-whistleblower-says-swat-teams-being-misused-j6-defendants-rights\">Just the News<\/a> obtained a copy of an FBI whistleblower complaint alleging that the agency is creating false domestic violent extremism statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several high-profile instances of political violence targeting conservatives have happened across America, including the death of a North Dakota teen and the shooting of an elderly pro-life woman, following President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}