Thanks again for taking the time to read and comment even if this is something we may never see eye to eye on. I've heard people point out that "put a bullseye on Trump" example, and it doesn't hold an enormous amount of weight to me. The whatabout card can be pretty boring to pull, but in this case just too easy not to.

If Biden's words can be interpreted as a direct call for violence against Trump, I think that Trump's calls for violence have only been more explicit. There was the time he said of Hillary, "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know," not to mention explicitly asking Russia on TV to hack her emails.

There was the time on Jan 6th he said "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," in addition to his inflammatory Tweets.

There was the "Proud boys stand back and stand by” incident, and instructing people to attack people protesting his rally, as well as journalists.

And not an explicit call for violence, but I think the demands on his 2016 campaign trails for his opponent to be jailed without a trial certainly deserve their place in this conversation.

Are there defenses for some of these instances? Sure. But if Trump can be given the benefit of the doubt by his supporters in each of these cases, me extending the same courtesy to Biden over those words about a bullseye on Trump really is no challenge. Not to mention, I haven't really seen any reason to believe those words had anything to do with this registered Republican trying to shoot Trump.