Donald Trump Jr. accused corporate media and Democrats of obfuscating Republicans and blaming the victims for the political violence and bloodshed following Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“The left-wing media and Democratic politicians are actually trying to attack ‘both sides’ of the psychopaths who are trying to assassinate my father,” the former president’s son said in a post on X on Sunday.
“Just when you think these people can’t get any lower they always do!!!” he added.
The left wing media and Democratic politicians are actually targeting “both sides” of the psychopaths who are trying to assassinate my father.
Just when you think these people can’t get any more depressed, they always do!!!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 14, 2024
For years, corporate media and far-left Democrats have compared Donald Trump to Hitler and portrayed him as a “threat to democracy” and a threat to the American way of life. Democrats have gone on TV and It is called Trump should be “removed.” President Joe Biden himself has called Trump “dictatorIncluding the day of the assassination attempt.
Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman: “President Trump should never again hold public office… and must be removed”
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But after the assassination attempt, pundits on the left were quick to condemn President Trump and the Republican Party, apparently concerned about his reaction to the attempted shooting and the possibility of retaliatory violence.
After a bullet appeared to barely graze his head and blood spilled from his right ear and spread to his cheek, Trump emerged from Secret Service escort and was rushed to a safe location, demonstrating to the American people that he had survived the assassination attempt. Video shows the former president pumping his fist in the air and defiantly yelling, “Fight, fight, fight.”
I fully support President Trump and wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ZdxkF63EqF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024
“When I watched the tape, the one thing that struck me as odd was the intense rhetoric that was flying, and that was former President Trump standing up after he was punched and saying, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ What we’re hearing from people is that that’s not the message we want to get across right now. We want to tone it down,” CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel responded.
Ah, shut up. https://t.co/rHhdt2hUhM
—Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 14, 2024
Speaking on CNN about the assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday, host Dana Bash said she had witnessed a very evil form of political violence “just in the last few years alone.”
She said:
Nancy Pelosi’s husband was asleep at home when someone came in with a hammer and hit him in the head. In 2016, there were 13 people killed and 13 injured, including a congresswoman who was holding an event for her constituents. I’m talking about Gabby Giffords. So this is obviously on a different scale and in a different time. This is someone who has been president and wants to be president again. But the concept and rhetoric of violence, the rage that people are rousing to violence, is something that’s been around for many years, it’s not something that goes back to the ’80s or the ’60s.
ABC host Martha Raddatz said on “This Week” Sunday that former President Trump’s “first instinct” after the assassination attempt was to say, “Fight,” to which host George Stephanopoulos responded, “You’ve traveled across the country speaking to voters in this deeply divided country. In some ways, this is a chilling sign of the underlying divisions in this country.”
Raddatz said, “George, yes, that’s true and probably will continue to be the case. As John said earlier, we’ve seen President Trump raise his right hand, we’ve seen the photographs, but we also saw him say, ‘Fight, fight,’ and that was his first instinct.”
Stephanopoulos also said Donald Trump and his supporters encouraged “violent rhetoric” in discussing yesterday’s assassination attempt on the former president.
“Of course, President Trump and his supporters are complicit in this violent rhetoric,” Stephanopoulos said.
David Frum, a prominent “Never Trump” critic and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said on Sunday Atlantic Ocean He blamed former President Donald Trump for the assassination attempt on him.
“The bloodshed that Trump has incited against others is now affecting himself,” Frum wrote.
“It is sadly false, as many say, that political violence ‘has no place’ in American society. Assassinations, lynchings, riots and pogroms have stained every page of American political history,” he continued. “That remains true to this day. In 2016, and even more so in 2020, Trump supporters have taken up arms to intimidate opponents and vote counters. Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the 2024 elections.”
