Another assassination attempt shows the Dems’ hostile playbook – blame the victim if it’s Trump By Michael Goodwin
He had it coming. It’s his own fault. Don’t blame us.
That sums up how leading Democrats and their media handmaidens are reacting to the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Remorse and concern about him or even the perils of the rising tide of everyday violence are in short supply.
Early voting has started, and they weren’t going to waste a day expressing anything other than hostility for the opponent they love to hate.
Just because they compare him to Hitler and Mussolini doesn’t mean they actually want him dead.
And a Dem congressman wasn’t to be taken literally when he said Trump had to be “eliminated.”
The blanket denials are also aimed at making sure Trump doesn’t get any political benefit from being the target of another gunman.
To grant him even an iota of sympathy would be to give sympathy to the devil.
Leave it to Hillary Clinton to be the first to reach the bottom of the barrel.
Here’s what we know about the assassination attempt on Trump in Florida:
- Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15, 2024.
- Trump sent out a statement to supporters soon after to report that he was “SAFE AND WELL.”
- The suspect — identified as Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii — was able to get within 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain link fence on the edge of the course, where he had an AK-47 and a GoPro camera set up, apparently to record the planned shooting.
- Routh has a history of supporting progressive causes online and has made 19 donations to Democratic candidates since 2019.
- A Secret Service agent spotted and opened fire on Routh as he put his gun through the fence. The suspect fled and was arrested on I-95 a short time later.
- According to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, Trump’s security detail was lighter because he isn’t a sitting president — despite the previous attempt on his life in July.
Trying to hock yet another book about herself — isn’t everything about her? — she complained on MSNBC that the media aren’t tough enough on Trump — the day after the assassination attempt!
“The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should,” Clinton told Rachel Maddow.
“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is . . . his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world. And stick with it.”
What I don’t understand is how much harder on Trump the media could be without suffering spontaneous combustion, but Maddow didn’t disagree with her guest.
Nor was she willing to discomfort viewers by reminding them that Clinton funded the phony Steele dossier in a bid to steal an election she couldn’t win.
Naturally, The New York Times signaled its approval of the Dems’ defiant stance.
Its top front-page piece on Tuesday was headlined “The Anger That Defines and Threatens Trump.”
See, he’s no angel, which is another way of suggesting he asked for it.
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