If you say Trump's comments will upset "independents" then I would say anyone "independent" with regards to Trump in the current political situation needs to pull his head out of his arse.
Agreed
But Reiner’s death was not a political act. It was not an assassination carried out by some radical loon. It was not in retaliation for anything he said about Trump. If that was the case than a bit of “Now you get to see what it feels like.” would not be the most defensible response but it would be somewhat understandable.
Instead his and his wife’s murder was a deeply personal, tragic, and horrifying event. So for Trump to bring Reiner’s politics into it is just wrong. For posters here to opine that he deserved such a death because of his politics is grossly wrong. For posters here to somehow assume they know just how Reiner’s son was reared and that being reared in a Leftist household lead to his murdering his parents is an insult to all parents who tried over and over again to help a child struggling with addiction. Good parents of all political stripes.
Oh and in case you are ignorant of the fact being stabbed is a God-awful way to die. Reiner and his wife felt every single time that blade went in. Every slash. Every thrust. Every damn time (unless they were unconscious). It is messy. As in hire a special hazmat cleaning crew messy.
That is what so many here are seeing as justified because of Reiner’s politics and his extreme anti Trump rhetoric. For Trump to join in such a viewpoint is shameful.
It goes beyond that.
Reiner called Trump, and us, Nazis, Fascists, Felons, etc. constantly for most of a decade. It’s Stochastic Terrorism. It’s the kind of crap that led directly to two assassination attempts on Trump and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, among other events.
The hand wringing over this is absurd. He was nasty constantly to us, and we’re supposed to ignore that on his passing?