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2 verified reports published on March 19, 2023.
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The throughline for the day was simple: Trump can still command the oxygen, but he also keeps making his allies spend it putting out fires he started. That is not strength. It is a recurring liability with a microphone.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on March 19, 2023, that people should not protest and there should be no violence if Donald Trump were indicted or arrested. The remarks came a day after Trump posted on Truth Social calling for supporters to “protest” and “take our nation back.”
Donald Trump’s March 18 Truth Social post calling on supporters to “protest” and “take our nation back” set off a day-after scramble on March 19, when Kevin McCarthy urged people not to protest and said there should be no violence. The sequence mattered: Trump pushed the issue toward mobilization, and Republicans were left trying to lower the temperature without sounding like they were breaking with him.