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”:
Never forget:
Also, let’s not forget about the track record here. A timely reminder:
And speaking of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), there was this:
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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