Flashback to Years of Incitement by Democrats, Media Against Donald Trump
“We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” — Joe Biden
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, there has been a lot of talk about what went down at his Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, with references aplenty regarding the inciteful rhetoric used against him by Democrats and media figures over the years.
The most recent and perhaps most notable, as we previously referenced, came from President Joe Biden himself not even a week ago, where on a call to panicked donors in the aftermath of his disastrous debate performance, he said it was “time to put Trump in a bullseye”:
“We need to move forward. Look, we have roughly 40 days til the convention, 120 days til the election. We can’t waste any more time being distracted,” Biden said in a private call with donors Monday, according to a recording obtained by POLITICO.
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” Biden said.
As Legal Insurrection readers will recall, in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in 2011, Democrats and the media rushed to falsely blame former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The Anchorage Daily News, for instance, pointed “to Sarah Palin’s ‘target list,’ that now infamous graphic featuring a map filled with crosshairs,” including one over Giffords’ Arizona Congressional district.
Some media outlets even apologized for the word “crosshairs” coming from their commentators at the time, saying “We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language.”
In addition to Biden’s incendiary rhetoric, there has been much more coming from Congressional Democrats, media figures, political strategists, and far-left actors over the last seven years, not just with the constant comparisons of him to Hitler but also in the form of calls to “take him out”:
Clips of leftists calling for the assassination of trump.
The left is not innocent. They encourage their deranged supporters.
Everyone of these people should be brought up on charges for incitement pic.twitter.com/ng2pe1rPLB
— Aric (@Aricouttapocket) July 13, 2024
Where were you 5 days ago when Biden said: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye?”Where were you as your Democrat colleagues and voters incited violence against Trump? You bunch of virtue signaling hypocrite phonies. Here’s EIGHT YEARS of incitement! -VJpic.twitter.com/gRXCjgtovV
— RealVinnieJames (@RealVinnieJames) July 13, 2024
Never forget:
Biden on July 8: "It's time to put Trump in the bullseye."
*reminder that the Democrats previously established the standard that Republicans using images of a bullseye on congressional seats to flip is "incitement." https://t.co/trshCEGB0q
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) July 13, 2024
if Trump saying “peacefully and patriotically” was incitement what is seven years of media and democrats saying “he’s going to end democracy”?
— Phil Labonte (@philthatremains) July 14, 2024
I think the ‘Trump J6 incitement’ conversation is officially put to rest. https://t.co/cW6Ep8otUi
— Boston Aggie™️ (@BostonAggie) July 13, 2024
Also, let’s not forget about the track record here. A timely reminder:
And an attempted assassination against Brett Kavanaugh
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) July 13, 2024
And speaking of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), there was this:
For weeks Democrat leaders have been fueling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America.
Clearly we’ve seen far left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past.
This incendiary rhetoric must stop.
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) July 13, 2024
It won’t, of course, but it will be interesting to see how many in the media and on the left try to “both sides” political violence in the coming weeks to try and avoid the elephant in the room about violent left-wing rhetoric.
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Death is a traditional literary metaphor for transformation. Kenneth Burke A Rhetoric of Motives
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/kenneth_burke_-_a_rhetoric_of_motives_1950.pdf
Who knew you could cut and paste from a pdf now (except for some odd characters which I’ll try to fix), from the opening of the introduction
THE ONLY difficult portion of this book happens, unfortunately, to be at the start. There, selecting texts that are usually treated as pure poetry, we try to show why rhetorical and dialectical considerations are also called for. Since these texts involve an imagery of killing (as a typical text for today should) we note how, behind the surface, lies a quite different realm that has little to do with such motives. An imagery of killing is but one of many terminologies by which writers can represent the process of change. And while recognizing the sinister implications of a preference for homicidal and suicidal terms, we indicate that the principles of development or transformation (“rebirth”) which they stand for are not strictly of such a nature at all.
Nobody cares about your middlebrow pseudo-intellectual undergraduate musings, you pretentious putz.
Thad, I’m not saying you’re wrong here, but your comments are (almost?) exclusively attacks on various and sundry LI readers. When was the last time you added anything substantive (or even remotely on topic) in a comment? Branch out from your laser-focus on insulting everyone and try to engage in the myriad topics at hand, please.
You are quite creative in your personal attacks, so I would actually be very interested in your thoughts about the topics or issues of the day. I’m less interested in your nasty (if occasionally creative) ad hominem attacks on our readers. Even the ones who routinely chirp “middlebrow pseudo-intellectual undergraduate musings” (a lovely descriptive that I very much enjoy as a writer but that I find problematic as a comment moderator, as you must understand).
The cite might be a clue that written violence is a major form of expression of something else, and limiting it is a severe restriction on free speech.
It’s a good thing this isn’t Congress, then, isn’t it? Since we make no laws at all. But we are certainly able to ban commenters. Thad is nowhere near that line, though, so hold your fire, Sparky. Indeed, you might want to take note of how many of YOUR comments are actually removed, thus putting you, not Thad, in the danger zone. Whinge about free speech all day long, go create your own site and let anyone say whatever, but we make the rules here. /just sayin’
Well here’s something to think about. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate rights that come from God. They enumerate rights that we give each other, in order to be Americans. If you can’t agree to those rights (e.g. mocking The Prophet), then you can’t be an American. If you do agree, you’re an American whether you’re an actual American or not.
It’s not a battle of government vs citizens but some citizens vs other citizens, expressed as via the government.
What your distinction is about is recourse.
Can you find a single comment of mine that’s ad hominem? Or off topic?
Disagreement is always an opportunity to try to say better what has been badly said so that it’s understood.
You’re still here, right? Be glad.
Do you have a God-given right to say what you want? Sure you do. Do we have to provide you a platform? No. You have no right from God or from the Constitution to post on this blog. That’s it. The end. No discussion, no nothing. Just no.
I wish you two would take your bromance to some secluded lakeside cabin somewhere.
Want some fun? I just did a search (I use Startpage -not Google if it matters)
for:
“Trump promotes violence”….
You will be shocked (well probably not actually) – the entries go on for pages and pages.
Bastards. They have been agitating the crazies against Trump for years.
That would’ve played out had Trump been murdered.
Funeral
No public RNC convention
GOPe RINO nominated
The rest is histor
In the lead up to the assassination attempt here are a few of the lefts greatest hits on how to take out Trump or outright murder him:
By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).
Your post is lifted entirely from VDH’s latest piece in response to yesterday’s horrific event.
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1812434677312983429
“We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” — Joe Biden
So the orders went out from the CFR and the White House.
“Let it be written, let it be done.”
But,
“If you come for the king, you best not miss.”
In the same vein as the malicious lawfare got Trump even more votes, this too will gather him more votes. An innate sense of fair play among people explains this.
Now do you believe there is a conspiracy to force the USA into the NWO? Joe and his CFR handlers want that; Trump does not.
Only the elites want that (for their selfish gains), not the people. Only last week did we commemorate our INDEPENDENCE from other rulers.
They don’t call it TDS for nothing. Biden the other night is as bad. He did almost everything but call for violence. These people are too hateful of Trump, or anyone that differs, to change. Give it a week.
A great start would be Biden expressing remorse for his “Red Speech,” a basic green light to hate.
You’re likely correct, but the Dems have probably learned a lesson that conservatives have yet to learn – never apologize for saying something you meant to say.
“Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the former chair of the now disbanded Jan. 6 congressional committee, introduced legislation that would automatically nix Secret Service protection for those who have been convicted of a federal or state felony that carries a minimum one-year prison term.
The proposed bill is provocatively called the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-look-strip-secret-service-protection-trump-convicted
Shows where the inciters are coming from.
They understand they don’t actually have to give anyone orders. Their roles are strictly to give encouragement and make the task as easy as possible (or at least not keep something as difficult as it otherwise might be, as DJT without SS protection would not be a person entirely without protection).
These Dhimmi-crat reprobates are so predictably vile and despicable.
It’s President Trump’s fault for creating the climate in which a Dhimmi-crat zealot attempted to murder him, and, succeeded in murdering one of his supporters, didn’t you know?
Malignant narcissist-hustler, Obama’s, Biden’s, Pelosi’s and the rest of the wretched Party’s and leftist media’s non-stop, 24/7 vilification of, demonization of and dehumanization of then-candidate, and, later President Trump, specifically, and, conservatives/GOP, broadly, have nothing to do with it.
The Gettysburg Address is 271 words. Melania Trump’s statement is slightly longer, at 417, but it is a statement for our times. Enough said.
https://x.com/MELANIATRUMP
No one ever describes JFK’s assassination as an act of “political violence.“
Media hivemind are now employing that nebulous verbage to diminish and refute that a real lead bullet tore through Trump’s earlobe.
The Bulwark says that the right failed to turn down the temperature when they failed to convict Trump for Jan 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufXU1S9Now0
You lost me at “the Bulwark says. . . ” 😛
-chuckle-
Bull something….
Hee!
Being liberals, and therefore by definition being without a shred of self-awareness and having no sense of irony whatsoever, The Bulwark admits that the “temperature” had already been turned up. I wonder who was responsible for that?
The weight of the incendiary rhetoric adds up over time with repetition, frequency and increasingly extreme claims. The d/prog have provided ample amounts of each in past several decades, Mitt Romney was compared to Hitler and Paul Ryan was portrayed as wishing to kill everyone’s grandma.
The parade of insane and incendiary claims took to new heights in the age of Trump. It is unsurprising after seeing CHOP, Occupy, BLM, Antifa, eco terrorism, GoP baseball practice attack, SCOTUS residences targeted for threats and continuous protests, the Trump WH under siege, that the continually increasing d/prog propaganda has had the effect of widespread indoctrination or that some fall prey to radicalization into using violence as a legitimate political tool. When your opponent is viewed as ‘literally evil’ why shouldn’t every option be used to defeat it?
Throw into the mix the frustration the Left feels for having launched X number of indictments against Trump, and all are now floundering. On top of that, due to accessing poor sources of information, they’ve been absolutely convinced that Bragg, Engoron, Merchan, Willis, and James are all heroes, and Cannon and SCOTUS are politically-motivated evil-doers, what option was available to them but violence? Their thought processes have been compromised by an endless wave of state propaganda, laundered through the so-called “free press” by alleged “journalists” and “expert” commentators.
Yep. They are in a box with no good way out. They had the first two years of Biden’s term to implement policies with disastrous consequences. The public recognizes the policy failures. SCOTUS is returning to a more normal view of Federal power and Executive Branch power in particular moving to curb the one institution the d/prog relied upon to expand and hold power; Federal Agency Bureaucrats. The GoP has the HoR and is likely to keep it. The Senate map for this fall heavily favors GoP. The Biden campaign was running behind in polls prior to the debate debacle. The lawfare strategy is coming apart. The tribal political coalition built by d/prog is unravelling. Now some loon radicalized by d/prog propaganda, from mainstream d/prog not the fringe it is important to note, attempted an assassination and nearly succeeded. The normies are PO and no amount of the typical DC media BS about ‘both sides’ is gonna change many minds. When they admit their rhetoric was beyond the Pale, likely contributed to this state, accept responsibility, apologize, ask for forgiveness, pledge to do better then deliver on that….maybe after a couple decades normies will give a crap what the Acela corridor Media or Rich Men North of Richmond have to say. Until then…
I wasn’t expecting to read the both-sidings from National Review. :
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/deeper-into-the-abyss/
Did biden say to put “bullseye” on trump?
Dog whistle to leftists extremists?
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