After the first assassination attempt on Trump in July, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) had to fire one of his aides after she posted on Facebook, “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.”
Another assassination attempt shows the Dems’ hostile playbook: Blame the victim if it’s Trump
Meanwhile Jack Black’s Tenacious D bandmate, Kyle Gass, was asked during a performance to make a wish. “Don’t miss Trump next time” was the “hilarious” response.
But even in July wiser voices realized that America — as well as the former President — had avoided disaster by a hair’s breadth. The more recent attempt, this weekend, saw that restraint go out the window.
After another shooter tried to kill Trump — this time on the former President´s golf course in Florida — Lester Holt of NBC said: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail.”
Ah — so it was Trump that brought it on himself, apparently! Isn’t “victim-blaming” meant to be one of the great sins of our age? Not if it relates to Trump, it seems.
The same day David Frum of The Atlantic magazine wrote: “Trump and his running mate have spent the past week successfully inciting violence in Springfield, Ohio. Today they want to present themselves as near-victims of violence — in this case, of violence completely unrelated to themselves and at a very safe distance from themselves.”
I don’t know whether I’d count having another rifle barrel pointed at you as “a very safe distance.”
But on and on they have gone this week. On Tuesday’s edition of “The View” Whoopi Goldberg opined “Let’s stop this thing. You know, let’s stop this both sides stuff. Because it’s not correct. It is not both sides, it is one clear side, and you can point to many, many reports. You can point to all kinds of stuff that’s been reported. You guys have to pull it back. This is not us or them, this is you got to stop doing what you’re doing, JD [Vance] and what you’re doing, Mr. [Trump], because you are not helping the situation.”