If you somehow missed the events of the last 24 hours, a gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump yesterday, during a planned campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
To say this was shocking news, is an understatement. It’s beyond shocking. It’s upsetting and angering. It’s important to take a breath and remember that Trump was not killed. Sadly, we also must remember that others at the event were killed or wounded by the shooter. Innocent people lost their lives for attending a political event. Pray for them and their families and friends.
As horrible as all of this is, I believe there are things coming in the immediate future that will add to everyone’s grief. Democrats and the media are going to try to ‘both sides’ the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
As I am writing this after 3 AM, there are already liberal media outlets like Mediaite pushing the narrative that the shooter was a registered Republican. He may have been, but perhaps he registered as one in order to vote against Trump. It’s far too early to know anything, but a narrative is already being built.
I doubt it will work, but it’s important to recognize it. Why would Mediaite or any other outlet even release such a detail so early? It’s meant to insult and demoralize conservatives.
If you were watching the news unfold as it was happening, you saw people on major news networks already trying to make an attempted assassination of Trump, all about his words and language. The media is going to memory-hole all of their parroting of Democrat talking points about Trump being a fascist who will end democracy. Joy Reid of MSNBC actually locked down her Twitter/X account tonight.
Countless Democrats have posted on Twitter/X tonight, saying that violence has no place in our politics. These are the same people who have repeatedly called Trump ‘Hitler’ and likened him to other fascist dictators. What did they think would happen? These are the same people who have looked the other way as their supporters have engaged in violence on college campuses and city streets for months. Yet they will still try to ‘both sides’ this.
There will be a stream of claims that the rhetoric is too inflammatory on both sides and that is simply not true.
I’m in my 50s and I have now seen assassination attempts on three American presidents in my lifetime.
Ford, Reagan, and Trump.
All Republicans.
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