MILWAUKEE – Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin said he's "tired" of seeing Republicans verbally and physically attacked, arguing that anti-Trump and anti-GOP rhetoric has reached new highs across the years. 

"The rhetoric has gotten so bad between, yes, the bullseye comment, remember Dan Goldman making a comment about how President Trump needs to be eliminated. Bennie Thompson wants to take away Secret Service protection. One of [Thompson's] aides was just complaining that the shooter Saturday evening had missed President Trump. I'm tired of seeing Republicans attacked like this," Zeldin told Fox News Digital during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. 

Zeldin was responding to President Biden backtracking on his comment earlier this month that "it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye," saying the remark was a "mistake" after a 20-year-old man in Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate Trump during a rally on Saturday evening. Zeldin reflected that verbal and physical attacks against Republicans have been ongoing and heightening for years before a shooter tried to kill the 45th president. 

"I saw it with Steve Scalise with the shooting a few years ago, the attack on Rand Paul, the targeting of Justice Kavanaugh, this very close, near-assassination of President Trump. Yes, we should settle our scores at the ballot box. I agree with that. It's a truth. It's something that everyone should preach and everyone should believe in," he continued. 

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"Ultimately, we have to confront, head on, the fact that there is a very extensive effort basically throwing everything that they can against President Trump outside of the ballot box to try to prevent him from taking office … It's gone too far. It's sick and it needs to end," he continued. 

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Zeldin said that three days after Trump announced his run for re-election in 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Jack Smith as special counsel to prosecute Trump, while Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade "was sitting inside the White House Counsel's Office," and DOJ official "Matthew Colangelo was putting in his papers to leave the Department of Justice" to take a job in the Manhattan District Attorney's office ahead Trump's indictment in the New York criminal case.  

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"That was all nine days after President Biden said that we would have to pursue ways outside of the ballot box to take down President Trump," he said. "I'm not going to just sign up for the fact it's all just a coincidence." 

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"Every normal, commonsense, average everyday American is able to see through it. Let's truly focus on settling the score at the ballot box. Let's not have to focus on crazy criminal cases and trying to bankrupt the president and all these other attempts that threaten safety."

So, with the nomination of Trump and his VP, JD Vance, America woke up today to two white men who may well run the country for the next four years. That's two Hitlers for the price of one. So what's going on here? Why are evil white men not only leading in the polls but adding minority voters the way Joy Behar adds chins? Right now, these two evil whiteys have the Democratic Party looking about as organized as a smash-and-grab at 7-Eleven. 

The truth is there is a key difference between the left and right that goes beyond policy, which is why people of all types are shifting Republican. At heart, the right loves America. They're not afraid to show it. They're the ones who stand for the national anthem, who love the military, who see America as a force for good and get satisfaction from their families, their country and this show, of course. But the left is quite simply as miserable as Morning Joe when Mika's dieting. Or Mika when Joe's having his period. Both sides have their warriors, for sure. But at least the right are happy warriors. That's why we're winning. And thanks to Trump, Republicans got their groove back. 

For an example of the difference between the two sides, just look at the reactions to the assassination attempt. Think about it. The guy they hate gets shot and they're the ones who are miserable, including many who made no secret that they wish the shooter hadn't missed. But our guy gets shot and what happens? Everyone chants USA! Trump gets his head creased by a round from an AK, and he pops up full of defiance and love for his country, looking for his odor eaters. Because that's what he meant by ‘fight’ of course. He meant fight for this place, fight for its founding principles, its freedoms, its strengths, not its damn pronouns. 

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Now, imagine the reverse. Imagine the reverse if Joe lost a single hair plug. He'd be in Walter Reed for a month. What a contrast. One president's got a bloody ear and the other needs Miracle-Ear. You can wrap Trump's whole head in bandages like the mummy and he'd still be more aware of his surroundings than old Joe. And Biden rallies? They're in such boring, sad places: high school gyms where everyone acts like they're at a doctor's appointment and it's a cross between Doctor Frankenstein and Doctor Kevorkian. 

Meanwhile, Trump rallies are massive and happy, and even with a shooting, people mourned. But they also moved ahead. You couldn't take them down. Trump has faced figurative bullets and now literal ones, and he just gets stronger. And he's always smiling. A real smile, too, not the skeleter grin Biden's had since his plastic surgeon stapled his ears behind his head. Circumstances have shaped Trump into a greater force and one who's having a ball. All while the media tried to paint him as soft. Oh, look, he fell. It was just a loud noise. Oh, it was probably glass, right? If these people were covering the Hindenburg, they would have told us, well, someone was just lighting farts. But if that happened to Biden, the media would be crying like Chris Christie when the McRib was discontinued. 

Meanwhile, the lawfare against Trump has been falling apart like a toilet seat on Lizzo's commode. I love the word commode, what can I say? Americans of all stripes and colors saw it as BS. So doesn't it seem like there's something about the timing of all this? Biden's pathetic debate, the shooting with Trump just turning his head, the end of the documents prosecution, and now today's conviction of Menendez as we see how the corrupt Democrats led a guy accused of being an agent of a foreign power to stay on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and receive classified briefings while on trial. Democrats, maybe it's time to ask yourself, is all this what happens when God or some other force for justice is on the other side? Because in this movie, we're the good guys and the Dems know that finally they're the bad and the reward is coming this November. 

So if you doubt any of this, just look at the supporters on each side. Trumpers are happy pappy's ready to fight, sure, but happily so. While the other side are hysterical, terror-stricken mopes that are as unhappy as Jerry Nadler's belt buckle. But the celebs on the right are out there swinging but enjoying the fight. 

Finally, just look at the name of Trump's deputy communications director. Her name is Caroline Sunshine. That's really her name. Can you get a happier name than Caroline Sunshine? She even looks like a Caroline Sunshine. And yet, no surprise Joe's name is Biden because that's all he's doing: Biden' Time.