Jay Robert Pritzker, governor of Illinois, blames President Donald Trump for allowing “political violence” to begin to be viewed as acceptable in U.S. land.

During an interview given to the Politico website, the Californian billionaire criticized the nation's president for being himself the one who fuels the violence revolving around him.

“Look, our leaders set the tone in this country, and I believe that the president of the United States has set the tone where political violence is acceptable. He has defended it himself before. It's something terrible,” he said.

Immediately after, Pritzker urged citizens not to remain silent and reject any hint of violence revolving around politics.

“We must raise our voices against political violence. I firmly believe that it is okay to disagree, but without being unpleasant,” he said.

However, in a dialogue with the Fox News television network, Steve Scalise, leader of the House of Representation representatives, responded to J.B Pritzker demanding analyze how he and his party are the ones who recurrently promote violence.

“Governor Pritzker needs to look in the mirror, and that's where he needs to start. Stop using the inflammatory rhetoric that others deliberately employ, this has to stop,” he noted.

The Louisiana Republican even recalled how last year the president's opponents, including Pritzker, compared him to Adolf Hitler.

“I want to try to blame the Republicans when it is the right that is being attacked over and over again by the left,” he stressed.

And to put more emphasis on his words, Steve Scalise pointed out that, those have tried to cause harm to the American president, resorted to the same phrases adopted by the Democrats to exhibit Trump.

“Many of those who tried to-assassinate Donald Trump have repeated the same words —'Nazi, threat to democracy'— that people like Governor Pritzker used,” he noted.