There is a close relationship between the Trump era and violence – not just the attempts on his life but also the violence his administration has unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and border patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers. (A few of Saturday night’s guests at the correspondents’ dinner were in Congress on 6 January 2021 when Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol.)
The violence of the Trump administration has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries. That is no justification for Saturday night’s attack, of course, but it is part of what he has wrought in America. He has changed the script in Washington. He has ushered in an America that is more divided, distrustful and hostile; an America where political opponents are enemies to be overcome and destroyed instead of debated and challenged at the ballot box.
Strange how the recent ‘political’ assassinations and attempted assassinations have all been carried out by people who identify as being ‘on the left’ and have targeted people who are perceived as being ‘on the right’.
Trump and ICE are upholding the rule of law, those on the left have a problem with that.
Then there’s the Southern Poverty Law Centre revelations whereby they have been found to be funding ‘far right’ groups (as well as those on the left) to protest and cause trouble………….
Of course, it all comes from the other side. Democrats would never never never endorse violence or protect criminals or cheer when some people get murdered.
“…the violence his ICE and border patrol agents have caused inside America…”
By doing their job of removing illegals?
Which was applauded when Obama was dping it.
Funnily enough, no one on the left seems to care very much about the violence unleashed on the population by the illegal migrant invaders ICE is trying to remove (because they’ve come to the attention of ICE by committing violent crimes!)
Saw an article?? about some repub elected official wants Drumpf to change the name of ICE to National Immigration & Customs Enforcement- he thought it would be much easier for the meejah to say Trumps NICE all the time.
An eight word weaselly disclaimer in 500 words of victim-blaming.
This is one of a number of articles and posts which follow the “Not justified, I condemn all acts of violence, but….”
Guess who… yep, Richard Murphy. Now who’d have thought.
I wonder what happened to all the very violent disturbances during the Biden era?
The thing is – there is almost no violence in America from ICE or immigration enforcement. These people are sleeping out over reports from one city and ignoring that the rest of the country is doing just fine.
And even that one city was not seeing violence from ICE.
Literally all the violence in the US is coming from the Left – but it’s somehow ’caused’ by Trump?
Yes, it’s caused by Trump because he is not doing what the Lefties and Progressives want…
Toddler logic… I don’t get what I want, so I throw a tantrum and hit and break stuff, so I will get what I want.
I should have guessed that it would be The Turd Reich.
Why do they bother with “Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol.”?
Most people must have watched clips of the people being invited in by cops and queuing peacefully between the rope lines. How much violence was there? A few people rioted – one was murdered for her pains – and there was a little pilfering. That was it as far as I remember.
Indeed, as it later emerged, there were dozens of plainclothes feds in the crowd. That was initially a crazy right wing conspiracy theory, since proven to be a fact
What were they doing? Acting as agents provocateur, obvs. The oversized reaction to the “riot” was a prewritten script, the government intended to provoke more violence than the minor property damage and cheeky selfies that actually happened.
Of course, that didn’t stop them imprisoning hundreds of innocent people for being in their nation’s capital on that day.
“Most people must have watched clips”
That’s the thing; they won’t have because it hasn’t been pushed in their feed. They have no reason to seek them out because all their friends are pushing the contrary.
Indeed, youtube was dishing out channel strikes for anyone that posted clips of Trump’s speech, including the part where he thanked everyone for turning out and told them to all go home peacefully.
In other “media bitterly disappointed the President of the United States wasn’t brutally murdered” news,
You may remember that President Trump wants to build a ballroom on the grounds of the White House. The main reason is to provide a convenient and secure place to host diplomatic drinky doos instead of putting up tents on the lawn or using a hotel in DC which could be easily accessed by lunatic leftwing assassins.
So here’s how NBC News “reported” today:
Trump uses the Correspondents’ dinner shooting to renew his White House ballroom push
See? The bastard is “using” the latest attempt on his life to argue that US presidents should be able to attend state functions without being shot at.
Reich is a creepy Munchkin. Pay No Attention.
It’s rhe same “of course” that meant “shit, they missed her!” when the IRA bombed the Tory party conference.
They hit Margaret Tebbit instead and she served a life sentence of disability and pain. Five innocent people were killed including Tony Berry (the only totally decent guy to run a newspaper in the last fifty years).
Honestly, I am at the same point as cunts like this. Can we just get on with ceasing to pretend that we have civil polities and that they are worth defending, and thus proceed to the two-sided fisticuffs of actual civil war?
Right now, we, and the Yanks, have got one-sided civil war. I’d like to move from asymmetry to symmetry. Or, to put it in more genial terms, how about we start defending ourselves?
What makes me smile is the American commies turned in all their guns. Should an actual war break out, their side will be unarmed.
Do you really believe that they didn’t buy lots more guns immediately afterwards?
Yep. American commies are stupid beyond comprehension.
Surveys say Republicans are more than twice as likely to own guns as the Demons. But I submit the TDS ones, the woke ones who are pushing the country to civil war, are far less likely. Unarmed people pushing for war.
Except that the TDS ones account for an overall majority of attempted political assassiniations in the USA this century.
Trump has unleashed violence by failing to die first time so his enemies *have had* to try again, and again, to kill him.
Oh, Robbie….always omitting all context