Actually, only some of the receipts since there are so many.
The Trump campaign has said the unsayable out loud: Democrats and the mainstream media have been working overtime to demonize Trump, and the inevitable result is that the more unhinged among them are being inspired to violence.
I’ve already written a couple of posts about the Democrats’ incitement to violence, including instances above and beyond those cited by Trump. Conversely, Trump has listed a bunch that I haven’t mentioned.
So let me reproduce his press release here:
Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt in as many months.
Thankfully, the would-be assassin was stopped by the heroic action of law enforcement — but make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years.
Democrats used increasingly incendiary rhetoric against President Trump in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the two assassination attempts:
That doesn’t even include the dangerous rhetoric against President Trump spewed by deranged Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 elections, the impeachment hoaxes, and the Summer of Love.
Meanwhile, the deplorable commentary from Democrats and the Fake News in the aftermath of the latest assassination attempt has been even worse:
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”
- Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness’: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”
- Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”
- State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
- Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”
- Alex Witt, MSNBC: “Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to [tone it down]?”
- Phil Bump, The Washington Post: “Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged.”
- Bill Kristol, The Bulwark: “Vance … incite[s] potential violence with lies.”
- Ron Filipkowski, liberal commentator: “Was the golf course guy with the gun a migrant?”
- David Frum, The Atlantic: “Trump and his running mate have spent the past week successfully inciting violence … today they want to present themselves as near-victims of violence.”
- Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine: “Trump is a threat to democracy, and saying so is not incitement.”
- The Cincinnati Enquirer: “The former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself.”
- USA TODAY: “Hope in America.”
- NBC News: “Golf course incident.”
- Bloomberg: Trump “seizing on assassination attempt.”
Democrats and the Fake News must immediately cease their inflammatory, violent rhetoric against President Trump — which was mimicked by yesterday’s would-be asssassin.
President Trump said it best: “Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!”
Yesterday Twitter/X was awash in ridiculous posts, ranging from “it was a hoax” to “it’s all Trump’s fault.” And it wasn’t just left-wing wackos of the harridans of The View or the jerks on MSNBC. In newspapers across the country, pundits intoned in the fake “not in anger but in sorrow” tones of hypocrites that Donald Trump inspired people to shoot at him.
If only Trump had the decency to die, they wouldn’t have to keep trying to kill him.
Speeding Toward Assassination: Overton Supercut pic.twitter.com/71SnSZE7IL
— Overton (@overton_news) August 7, 2024
My favorite in that Overton mashup was Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project fame, who hates Donald Trump because he violates democratic norms, calling for a bullet to be put into Trump’s head.
Nice. Very respectful of American norms, Rick. Or how about this from yesterday?
The fact that the miserable fascist creeps are sometimes endangered by the violent energies they themselves have unleashed on the country doesn’t change the fact that they are the ultimate source of almost all our troubles
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 16, 2024
I do think that many of these people are serious when they complain about Trump’s rhetoric and totally unaware that they are the worst people in the world. They truly believe they are saving democracy.
Not all of them, of course. Many of them are just evil people, like Adam Schiff and Dan Goldman. I wonder what they would say if Republicans started calling for their “elimination?”
REP. PLASKETT: “[Trump] needs to be shot, stopped.”pic.twitter.com/mWY3zUbI4X
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 16, 2024
I don’t want to find out. I just want them voted out of office and covered in the shame they so richly deserve.
As some people have pointed out, Donald Trump has now survived more assassination attempts this election cycle than Kamala Harris has given one-on-one press interviews.
This is the Democrats’ vision of how “democracy” is supposed to work.
