
Was I surprised when MSNBC’s Alex Witt suggested it was incumbent upon DONALD TRUMP to begin “toning down the rhetoric” after someone attempted to kill him at his own golf club over the weekend?
No. Sadly.
“Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that?” Witt asked her guest on ‘Alex Witt Reports.’ “Because he will reach out to his supporters and say let’s take this down. We do not know the source of any gunshots or gunshots. We do not know who is responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed from start to finish how this all played out.”
Insane stuff, sure, and especially when you consider that we all know how this started.
Two consecutive failed assassination attempts on Donald Trump were preceded by years of over-heated rhetoric, hyperbole, lawfare, baseless accusations and explicit calls for violence from leading Democrats including Joe Biden and yes, Kamala Harris. They set the tone, and Democrats, members of the media, and entertainment industry figures all followed their lead.
h/t to the End Wokeness X account for compiling this disturbing but very historically accurate sampling of the Left’s vitriol:
2.5 minutes of Democrats explicitly calling for using political vioIence.
They own this. pic.twitter.com/vMpVbmJYmc
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2024