"Even if?"
Gee, thanks. Tough call, George, but you made it.
On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project co-founder (still wrongly labeled a "Conservative Attorney") George Conway said that we should condemn political violence "even if" Donald Trump is the target.
Imagine a MAGA personality—let alone President Trump himself—saying: "We need to condemn political violence even if the target is [fill in the blank with the name of a prominent Democrat.]"
The howls of outrage would echo through liberal-media/Dem land. "Why would anyone imagine such a statement is necessary? It's virtually an incitement to violence in itself!" etc.
After emitting his bare-minimum statement, Conway wasted no time in condemning Trump for failing to attend yesterday's funeral of Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.
Speaking of Minnesota and the promotion of political violence, shouldn't Conway condemn Gopher State Gov. Tim Walz? As we've noted, Walz recently boasted, speaking of Trump supporters, that he can "kick most of their ass." And just last month, here was Walz's proposal to fight back against Trump:
"Be a little meaner, maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce. We have to ferociously push back on this. When the bully is an adult like Donald Trump, you bully him back.”
MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance—a former US attorney appointed by Obama—admitted that Trump "might not have been welcome" at the Hortman funeral. But she blamed Trump for that:
"That speaks to a deeper dysfunction between this administration and the need for the president to be the one who stands up and demands that we walk away [from] the political violence."
Sounds like Vance was justifying Trump-hatred!
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
6/29/25
8:02 am EDTEUGENE DANIELS: Joining us now, Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and an MSNBC legal analyst, and George Conway, conservative lawyer and president of the Society for the Rule of Law.
To start our conversation, I want to take a look at two things. One is New York Times reporting on violent acts against politicians in the U.S. They say, quote, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, a nonprofit that tracks conflicts around the globe, has recorded 21 acts of violence against politicians, their families, or their staffs in the United States since it began counting them in 2020. A vast majority have occurred since 2022.
And then a look at some of those political violence incident: Representative Steve Scalise in 2017, Republican. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan in 2020. Paul Pelosi, the husband of then, of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2022. Assassination attempts—two—on Donald Trump in 2024. And then the arson attack on the Pennsylvania governor in 2025, Josh Shapiro.
George, I guess I will start with you. One of the things I constantly hear from politicians in these moments is like, this is not America. And it seems to honestly take some of the responsibility that all of us have to figure this out so it doesn't get normalized. How do we get past this as a country?
GEORGE CONWAY: Well, I think we all need to take a stand against political violence, no matter who it comes from and no matter who the target is. Even if the target is President Trump, we all condemned it.
And we all, we need, for example, the President of the United States to show more that he cared about what happened in Minnesota. And the only Ppresident of the United States that showed up in Minnesota yesterday was the former President of the United States.
. . .
JOYCE VANCE: We are becoming a country where political violence is the new normal. And in that moment, the President of the United States is almost completely absent from the dialogue. That's very much what's missing here.
I mean, the reality is Donald Trump might not have been welcome in that church in Minnesota this weekend, but that speaks to a deeper dysfunction between this administration and the need for the president to be the one who stands up and demands that we walk away [from] the political violence.
