President Biden told the nation that he has always personally authorized that Trump, as a former president and the Republican nominee, has the highest level of security.
The alleged shooter, a 20-year-old, used an AR-15-style rifle. Cleese did not mention there are 28,144,000 such rifles in circulation, yet only one of those more than 28 million guns was used in that heinous fashion.
CBS ran a news special on Sunday night after President Biden’s remarks in the Oval Office. CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell interviewed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and dragged him right back to January 6 to discuss how rhetoric has grown hotter. Typically, CBS didn’t include itself in the atmosphere of overheated rhetoric.
Kevin McCarthy came on CBS, and Norah O’Donnell went right to January 6. McCarthy said it was important to tone down the rhetoric, so Norah asked TWICE if he pushed Trump around on that point. pic.twitter.com/W2ZkX5ZiCr
O’DONNELL: You were speaker of the house on January 6th. We spoke that day. We were live on the air for more than ten hours or so, and I remember our conversation vividly, because you called on the president, to come forward, come before the cameras, and ask for the violence to stop. And you said, this should be a moment that brings us together, not divides us. But it’s almost like the rhetoric’s gotten hotter since then.
The Washington Post shamelesslyjumped right into the “no evidence” game on Sunday when Republicans complained that all of the Left’s routinely extreme demonization of Donald Trump could inspire violence. Michael Scherer’s headline jumped right in:
Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for their rhetoric
Supporters argued that Democratic portrayals of Trump as a threat to democracy led to the violence, though the shooter’s motive was not apparent at the time of their remarks.
This is how a paper proves they’re a Democrat rag at the worst possible time. Let’s guess that if Trump has been seriously wounded, the Post would have done this story just the same way. They can’t acknowledge that this is a favorite leftist tactic, to connect conservative speech to violence…and then suggest the tactic cannot be reversed.
The president deftly avoids the trap of surrendering his critique of MAGA lawlessness.
Joe Biden delivers a nationally televised address from the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2024.(Erin Schaff-Pool / Getty Images)
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday has upturned the political world, not least the reelection campaign of Joe Biden. Trump, empowered now with a dramatic photo showing him defiantly raising his fist after being fired on, has assumed the role of a righteous and perhaps divinely protected victim. In response, could Biden really carry on with his planned strategy of highlighting Trump’s threat to American democracy?
Some of Biden’s political allies were so demoralized they seem to have preemptively surrendered. On Sunday, Axiosquoted a “senior House Democrat” as saying, “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez correctly responded to this comment by noting, “If you’re a ‘senior Democrat’ that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism. This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.”
Trump Derangement Syndrome has yet again reared its nasty head only one day after an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life.
Of course, as is often the case with TDS, this isn’t coming from some random fringe actors on social media.
It’s coming from a sitting state representative in the Democratic Party.
The man in question, Colorado state Rep. Steven Woodrow, posted the following on X (of which a screen shot was taken before being taken down) Saturday just after former President Donald Trump was shot.
Russia “collusion.” “Peaceful” protests. Mask mandates. Vaxx mandates. Don’t-leave-your-house mandates. Don’t question the canvassers. Jan. 6. Two-tiered-justice target on your back. “Misinformation.” Mutilate your body. Kill your child. Kill free speech. Kill your political enemy.
For too long, we have been fed chaos. And for too long, we have been told it is reality. We have been told to forget what we see, forget what we hear; we have been told to ignore what we know. Layer after layer of doubt upon misconstrued fact upon convenient cover-up upon censored content upon corruption.
The leftist media know that chaos begets chaos. They know that mass hysteria begets fear. And they know that exploited fear is the primary means of mind control. They have slowly and strategically unleashed a full-on psychological attack against the critical thought capabilities of the American people — an attack so gradual and persistent, many have no idea they have been taken captive.
This past Saturday, presidential candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. One rally-goer died in the shooting, and two people were critically injured. The suspected shooter is also dead. What was a tragedy and a likely security lapse has also morphed into a debate over DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a corporate catchphrase that’s become nearly as divisive as politics itself.
In the shooting’s fallout, the Secret Service, the law enforcement agency assigned to protect political leaders, was blamed as a whole for not adequately securing the area. But some right-wing pundits have also latched onto a niche cause: attacking the hiring practices of the Secret Service and specifically its director, former Pepsi executive Kimberly A. Cheatle, who has championed adding more women to the agency’s ranks. Conservative commentators on social media have singled out female members of Trump’s detail, criticizing them as less adept than their male counterparts for alleged blunders that were caught on camera.
“DEI Secret Service make Presidents LESS Safe,” wrote conservative political commentator Benny Johnson, calling out a “gaggle of female Secret Service Agents.” Far-right social media account Libs of TikTok, run by Chaya Raichik, mocked the Secret Service’s diversity efforts on X by saying that Saturday’s events were “The results of DEI. DEI got someone kiIIed.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks belonged to a shooting club based in Clairton, Pa., nearly nine miles from his family home in Bethel Park. Attorney Robert S. Bootay III confirmed to The Times that Crooks, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents Saturday, was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club.
“Obviously, the club fully admonishes the senseless act of violence that occurred yesterday,” said Bootay, who represents the organization, in a statement. “The club also offers its sincerest condolences to the Comperatore family and extends prayers to all of those injured including the former president.”
A former classmate of the 20-year-old man who tried unsuccessfully to kill former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday recalled him being staunchly to the right of the political spectrum. “He definitely was conservative,” Max R. Smith told The Philadelphia Inquirer of Thomas Crooks. “It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.” Smith shared an American history class with Crooks, and remembered a mock debate where their teacher made students stand on one side of the classroom or another to signal their allegiance. “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.” Crooks died in the assassination attempt. Trump, who suffered a minor injury to the ear, was “fine” Sunday after being treated at a local medical facility, his campaign said. One audience member was killed and two others critically injured amid the gunfire.
