Rep. Steve Scalise, survivor of politically motivated shooting, tears into ‘unfit’ Harris for ‘violence-inciting rhetoric’ against Trump

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a victim of a politically motivated shooting, said Tuesday Kamala Harris’ continued usage of “violence-inciting rhetoric” against Donald Trump makes her “unfit” to beryllium president.

The Louisiana Republican answered The Post’s questions aft a fundraiser for GOP House hopeful Tom Barrett six miles northbound of Detroit successful suburban Oakland County.

“That violence-inciting rhetoric is disgraceful, and I’ve called Kamala Harris retired connected that,” Scalise said. “It’s not that everybody’s doing it, it’s that she’s been doing it, and nan connection she’s been utilizing has been regurgitated by nan group who person tried to termination Donald Trump.”

The erstwhile president has been unfortunate to 2 imaginable assassination attempts.

Trump was changeable successful nan caput July 13 during a reside successful Butler, Pa.

Two months later, authorities arrested a gun-toting man who allegedly stalked and targeted Trump astatine his Florida play course.

“You cognize erstwhile they telephone him ‘a threat to democracy,’ nan attempted assassins person besides utilized that very aforesaid language,” Scalise said.

“So they can’t anymore conscionable declare that they don’t cognize that it’s inciting violence,” he added. “Their connection is perfectly inciting violence, and yet they proceed to do it. It’s 1 of nan reasons why Kamala Harris is unfit to beryllium nan president of nan United States.”

Scalise and 3 others, including a personnel of his US Capitol Police information team, were changeable during a June 2017 believe for nan yearly legislature softball game, conscionable months into nan Trump presidency.

The congressman was rushed to infirmary successful captious information and underwent months of recovery.

Shooter James Hodgkinson, 66, who was killed erstwhile officers responded, was a Bernie Sanders protagonist who asked nan governmental affiliation of those connected nan section — and experts concluded he was motivated by rhetoric that demonized Republicans.

A Department of Homeland Security behavioral analysis produced 3 months later found, “In nan fewer years starring up to his attack, Hodgkinson made galore written statements criticizing Republican policies and ideology, arsenic good arsenic statements straight criticizing circumstantial nationalist officials, including congressmen and erstwhile Republican Presidents of nan United States.”

Scalise urged nan vice president to reside down rhetoric that portrays Trump arsenic a threat to populist itself aft some assassination attempts — but Harris hasn’t stopped.

From nan charismatic vice-presidential residence past week, she accused her opponent of admiring and pursuing successful nan footsteps of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Citing an Atlantic study — which Trump denies and multiple group dispute — claiming nan ex-prez said, “I request nan benignant of generals that Hitler had,” Harris declared: “It is profoundly troubling and incredibly vulnerable that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, nan man who is responsible for nan deaths of 6 cardinal Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.” 

Scalise swung complete to metro Detroit to support Tom Barrett, nan Republican moving to capable a Lansing-area spot successful Michigan’s 7th District.

Barrett mislaid a tight title successful 2022 to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who’s now moving for nan state’s unfastened Senate seat.

Barrett faces Curtis Hertel Jr. successful a battle of erstwhile authorities lawmakers. The Republican said he likes his chances this clip astir — and nan opposition pinch his opponent.

“He’s been a 22-year profession ladder-climber,” Barrett told reporters. “I spent 22 years successful work to nan military.”