There have been two known assassination attempts against President Donald Trump in the past 65 days. Leading up to the first assassination attempt, Democrats and their media allies did their best to smear and dehumanize their opponent, Kamala Harris, portraying her as a threat to democracy, minorities, and freedom itself.
After the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Democrats and their media allies faced desperate pleas from people, including victims of recent Democratic terror attacks, to tone down their harsh and inflammatory rhetoric.
Instead of self-reflection or restraint, the left has become even more hardline after both incidents.
Below are five claims made by Democrats and their allies in the media that have essentially set the stage for the assassination of President Trump.
1. “Democracy depends on voting.”
The Washington Post
Complained On Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested he had a “bullet in his head” because of what Democrats and their media allies are saying about him.
A few days later, Ryan Routh
Democratic donors and Strong interest He allegedly plotted to assassinate President Trump in Florida as part of Ukraine's war efforts.
New York magazine couldn't even wait a full day after the second assassination attempt. Rephrasing“Trump is a threat to democracy”
Unlike Thomas Matthew Crooks, Routh had a large online presence that investigators were able to document before social media companies began routinely scrutinizing him. It's clear from Routh's posts that his extreme views were partly influenced by Democratic talking points. So, contrary to what The Washington Post suggested, Trump was right again.
Prior to his arrest, Routh reportedly posted: how “This election is about democracy”
This is Kamala Harris
Standard lineThe same comments have been echoed by other Democrats.
On July 2, Harris posted a photo of Trump with the caption, “Donald Trump vows to be a dictator from day one.”
“Democracy will be on the line in November,” she wrote in a response message.
Harris also added combative language to her remarks.
For example, on June 21, Harris
Posts “Our democracy depends on voting. Democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it,” the Facebook post reads.
2. “The Biggest Threat”
Democrats regularly call Trump a threat to democracy, a move likely a euphemism for their power grab.
“He is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
Shortly after a group of Biden associates temporarily barred the incumbent's biggest Democratic rival from the Colorado primary late last year, Biden Tweeted“Trump poses many threats to our country — the right to choose, civil rights, the right to vote, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy.”
Years Later
call Similarly, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) considers Republicans “enemies of the state.” Suggested In April, he claimed that President Trump posed a “significant threat to our democracy.”
The Democratic National Committee has repeatedly used the term. For example, on June 27, the Democratic National Committee
Circulated Next message:
Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to be a dictator from “day one” if elected and warned of a “carnage” if not, yet he continues to give a platform to election deniers and insurrectionists by appointing dangerous conspiracy theorists, leading an “election integrity” movement at the Republican National Convention, and promising pardons to the January 6th rioters. Democracy is at stake this November, and if Donald Trump regains power, the survival of our democracy will be at stake.
Kamala Harris too
Claimed On June 27, she repeated again and again that “he is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
3. Comparison with the Nazis
Unimaginative and desperately searching for a historical analogy to underscore Trump's threat to America, the Democrats and their media allies decided early on to choose Adolf Hitler.
In 2019
speechRep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said Hitler “rose to power on a wave of nationalism and anti-Semitism. Now replace anti-Semitism with, 'All Latinos who come across the border are rapists, drug dealers and murderers.' Sound familiar?”
“You'd better fight.”
Johnson, who is up for re-election, added: “When it comes to the harm that a man named Hitler could cause, and a man named Trump, Americans, and particularly black people, cannot afford to make the same mistakes.”
The Times (UK)
attention In December 2023, CNN commentator Jake Tapper likened President Trump's comments about illegal immigration to Hitler's genocidal comments about the Jews.
“If you read Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' you'll see that the Nazi leader described interbreeding between Germans and non-Germans as poisoning. Hitler wrote that Jews 'poison the blood of others,'” Tapper said. “Donald Trump's rhetoric reflects exactly this.”
So did Harris campaign spokeswoman Amar Moosa. Claimed“Donald Trump has echoed the dictatorial words of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, dictators for whom so many American veterans gave their lives in battle.”
Former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill Recently proposed On MSNBC, he claimed Trump was “even more dangerous” than Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
The New Republic magazine
Photoshopped images On the cover of its June issue, the magazine likened Trump to Hitler, with The New Republic's editors arguing, “We at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in two ways: We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 criteria that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, 'He's close enough, we'd better fight.'”
In an article published on the website of Poynter, which runs PolitiFact, so-called media ethicists Kelly McBride “Trump's racist rhetoric should be seen in the odious tradition of Hitler,” medical ethicist Art Kaplan wrote in Politico. Captured The essence of the article is superficial delete.
Of course, there are many versions of the authoritarian smear. The Harris campaign appears to have avoided tearing up history textbooks.
simply Suggested This time, Trump will truly become a “dictator.”
4. “Clear and present danger”
In 2021, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries argued that President Trump is a “clear and imminent danger.”
Ocasio-Cortez
said Trump poses a “clear and imminent danger” to both Congress and the nation.
Jeffries later turned his attention to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Shown Any moment that Trump takes office is a “clear and imminent danger to the safety and security of the American people.”
Former Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig revived the argument a year later.
Assert Trump and his allies and supporters remain a “clear and present danger to American democracy.”
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Left-wing media Have I have stuck to this suggestion faithfully.
For example, the editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer
piece “Donald Trump is a clear and present danger,” he said in January, while making sure to bring up other big-hit Democratic phrases like “democracy is at risk.”
5. “Bullseye”
A few days before the July 13 assassination attempt, President Joe Biden
said In a private call with a campaign donor, Trump said, “I have one job, and that's to defeat Donald Trump. And I believe I'm the best person to do that.”
“We're done talking about debates. It's time to criticize Trump hard,” Biden added during the July 8 call.
Biden later
said “It was a mistake to use that word,” NBC News' Lester Holt said.
Biden has tried to retroactively soften his remarks, but the damage was already done: After all, Biden was trying to portray Trump as a villain who deserved to be targeted.
For example, during his infamous red light speech at Independence Hall Historical Park in Philadelphia in September 2022, Biden
Claimed“MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
Biden's “spot-on” remarks in July have been relatively prominent, but several years earlier, Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, had said:
It was performed A fake white supremacist rally was held ahead of the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin. said MSNBC's Chris Hayes said the donor base “has got to go out and put bullets in Donald Trump.”
As with Biden, Wilson's defense of his language is that it is metaphorical.
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