Newsletter: Another assassination attempt on Trump. Another wave of hypocrisy (by Trump and Vance)

Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 18, 2024 4 AM PT | Mariel Garza | Editorials Editor |

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Good morning. It is Wednesday, Sept. 18. Here’s what’s happening in Opinion.

Over the weekend Donald Trump was the apparent target of a second assassination attempt as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Fla., club. Who knows what might have happened had the Secret Service not spotted the suspected gunman hanging out at the edge of the course before he could take a shot or even get a line of sight.

Unsurprisingly, Trump and his allies immediately put the blame for the incident on Democrats since they will not stop talking about what might happen if a self-proclaimed wannabe dictator wins the White House. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at,” the former president complained in an interview with Fox News Digital — adding, with no apparent irony, that Democrats are destroying the country.

“We cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist, and if he’s elected, it is gonna be the end of American democracy,” Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, said after the incident. But it’s OK to say one candidate is a fascist — and a Marxist and a communist — and if she’s elected it will be the end of the country? Because those are accusations routinely hurled at Vice President Kamala Harris by Trump.

If there were such a thing as a hypocrisy meter, it would have hit 11 this week.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All they have are lies, projection, Astroturf and gaslight.

[Republican Wildcat]

Unsurprisingly, Trump and his allies immediately put the blame for the incident on Democrats since they will not stop talking about what might happen if a self-proclaimed wannabe dictator wins the White House.

Remarkably stupid and dishonest...and hypocrisy about alleged hypocrisy - because if they actually believe this, and apparently want others to believe this - then they are encouraging more of this and can't possibly believe it would be a bad thing if it were successful.

[OriginalChristian]

Nobody is aiming firearms at Kamala Harris.

[glennaro]

What about the members of the Democrat/Communist Party, LA Times? The members of this anti-America/anti-American political cult have attempted to blame Trump himself and the MAGA movement for these insane, despicable attempted murders brought on by severe TDS and promoted incessantly by Democrat/Communists including, notably, the frenzied Democrat/Communist fanatics who work at the LA Times.

[EasySt]

Even more remarkably, nobody is aiming firearms at the LA Times, either.

The ammo box must its turn, for we haven’t cause to give up on the other boxes,
just yet.

[EasySt]

Oops...

The ammo box must WAIT its turn, for we haven’t cause to give up on the other boxes,
just yet.

[No name given]

Exactly, the demonrats are just projecting as usual.

[BAN-ONE]

Oh, but let someone take a pot shot at the mulatto messiah and it would be martial law, non stop media coverage from idiot talking heads, and a round up of anyone MAGA.

[Fledermaus]

The left is desperate

[Vesuvian]

Then how are you alive to write this drivel? Obviously, you were murdered in the Trump gulags like all others who dared look at him the wrong way.