The first example is clearly using Republicans as the victim. If anything that's the opposite of what you're claiming he's pushing. He could have chosen other

The first example is clearly using Republicans as the victim. If anything that's the opposite of what you're claiming he's pushing. He could have chosen other framing (like "conservatives" as perpetrators) if he wanted to prey on emotions by connecting these two examples. His framing of those two examples, if anything, seems chosen to counter-balance each other.