During a press conference on Monday, Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) over a social media post in which the governor said he hoped Vice President J.D. Vance "enjoyed his time" at Disneyland, where he was heckled.
00:00I'm going to introduce Dan Muser now. Dan and I sat beside each other in Butler July 13th last year and watched as the assassination attempt took place. I've got to tell you, at first, nobody knew what was happening. It sounded like somebody was shooting off firecrackers. And then when we saw the president go down, we knew exactly what happened. We did not know that Corey Compatori had been seriously wounded and was going to die. We did not know that two other gentlemen were seriously
00:29wounded and are still recovering from those wounds. But today, we are making an effort to make sure that we start speaking the right way in America. Mr. Muser.
00:43Well, well said, Representative Mike Kelly, my good friend from Pennsylvania. As he stated, I was at Butler on July 13th, and we were there in October when our president insisted on going back.
00:55He asked me, what do you think about me going back? And I said, Mr. President, I advise against it. I was not supportive. I was more concerned about his safety.
01:04But his level of courage is, well, well, boundless.
01:08When the president was hit on July 13th, and we all couldn't help but really think the worst. But that certainly changed, as we all saw at the moment. He lifted, lifted up, lifted up security agents on his back, put his fist up, said, fight, fight, fight, wiping blood from his face.
01:28And in so doing, he lifted everybody in that arena up, at the rally up. They began the chant of USA, USA. And I think he rose the entire nation up. And I think we saw that on the following November 5th.
01:45But the rhetoric and politics is out of control, right? I recently met with members of the Indivisible group up in my district, insisting I show up, insisting I show up.
01:57Well, we had an hour meeting. I let it go to an hour and 40 minutes. But right at the very end, they said, one of them said, you know, you're a Nazi, and so is President Trump.
02:06Okay? Nazi, all right? We know what the Nazis did. When people were out there making such comments and elected officials, you know, some people believe them.
02:16They actually think that you might be that. And that hate speak turns into violence.
02:22Just this weekend, Vice President J.D. Vance and his family are at Disney World. Cursed at all kinds of foul language thrown at them.
02:32And Governor Newsom has to put something out saying, did you enjoy your time at Disney World? Okay?
02:40Governor Newsom is sick to do something like that and to act that way.
02:44And how about the ICE agents being demonized and attacked for doing their jobs? And elected officials are out there cheering it on.
02:53So there are too many Democrats, frankly, that are tolerating this, in fact, encouraging it. Not all. Not all by any means.
03:00My friends that are Democrats condemn it as well. But there's too many falsehoods.
03:05And we've got a governor in Pennsylvania that does nothing but skew falsehoods.
03:08And, again, people believe him, how certain measures are being taken that were taking food out of hungry Pennsylvanians' mouths.
03:16Nothing could be further from the truth. And Brooke Rollins came up to Pennsylvania and pointed out the truth.
03:21So we have this resolution. It's about hate speech because hate speech leads to violence. It's dangerous.
03:30We also are seeing a high level of a surge in anti-Semitic rhetoric.
03:36I mean, for crying out loud, I put out a post recently on Facebook, something positive about Israel.
03:41I literally got hundreds of basically threats and all kinds of other hate messages.
03:50So, look, we're not going to stop at all, but this resolution is about calling for an end to hateful rhetoric.
03:59It is about a resolution that's somnily making, answering, or recognizing the one-year anniversary of the attack on President Donald J. Trump.
04:14It honors Corey Compertor, who died shielding his family, and David Dutch and James Comperhaver, who are injured.
04:21And it also brings out the governor I just mentioned, Josh Shapiro, and some others that had – we had our governor residents attacked.
04:31Okay, all of these things need to be condemned, and that's what this resolution is about.
04:35And I just applaud my good friend August Pflueger and my great friend Mike Kelly for setting all this up.
