Brandon Gill Calls Out 'Deranged' Dem Rhetoric Against ICE When Remembering Attempt On Trump's Life

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At a House Republican press briefing, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) decried political violence and discussed the assassination attempt on President Trump last year in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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00:00It is my pleasure to introduce my friend and colleague from the state of Texas, Representative Brandon Gill.

00:10Thank you, Laurel, and thank you all for being here.

00:14It was just a year ago yesterday that President Trump was in a rural Pennsylvania field, bucolic area,

00:23beautiful part of this country, when a deranged gunman tried to murder him.

00:30At the time, there were thousands of his supporters in the field looking for a message of hope from the president,

00:39a message that the forgotten Americans in this country will no longer be forgotten,

00:45that the people who have been ravaged by globalism and mass migration and fentanyl will have a champion in Washington.

00:54And meanwhile, leftists on the other side of the aisle were slandering that same then-presidential candidate,

01:04saying that he is a threat to democracy, that he's a wannabe dictator, that he is literally Hitler in their words.

01:14And some people on their side of the aisle take those words at face value, and they tried to assassinate him.

01:25Political violence has absolutely no place in this country, but unfortunately, this kind of rhetoric has continued.

01:33We hear our colleagues on the other side of the aisle demonizing the brave men and women who serve in ICE and in immigration facilities,

01:44saying that what they are doing is similar to the secret police, that they are being compared to the Gestapo.

01:52This is rhetoric that is not only deranged and wrong, but it has no place in a functioning democratic system.

02:05So we on this side of the aisle, and we hope that others will join us, reject this rhetoric.

02:11We reject political violence in all its forms.

02:14And we pray for this country and for its leaders and for our president, for their safety and for their well-being.

02:24So with that said, thank you all for being here, and I'd like to...

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