Flashback: GOP Strategist Rick Wilson Said Donors Need to ‘Put a Bullet’ In Donald Trump

Republican strategist Rick Wilson recently laughed at President Trump’s declaration that sentencing memos for Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort had ‘totally cleared’ him.

Wilson appeared with CNN’s Don Lemon to discuss the President’s tweet celebrating the Cohen court filing as being clear of Russian collusion evidence.

“This is not a well man, Don,” Wilson responded. “This is a guy who honestly believes that he can change the fabric of reality and make the law go away by tweeting at it.”

Wilson urged donors “put a bullet” in President Trump

Safe to say, no matter your line of work, if you were to threaten somebody by encouraging people to put a bullet in them, you would no longer be employed.

Yet, here you have Wilson, just years removed from making this statement …

Wilson, of course, defended the comments by saying it was nothing more than a figure of speech. Would a Trump supporter be afforded the same luxury of an excuse?

Fortunately, during that same interview, Wilson was proven to have weak skills when it came to political prognostication.

“I will tell you, no matter who you support or how much you like them, neither Donald Trump or Ben Carson is ready to go up against the Clinton machine,” he stated. “Those guys are obviously not ready for primetime.”

Wilson has a history of encouraging violence against political opponents

After calling Trump voters ‘fascists’ at length following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Wilson said he’d like to see ‘fascists’ killed not long after.

With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Rusty Weiss has been covering politics for over 15 years. His writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, Fox... More about Rusty Weiss

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