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CNN Analyst Cites ‘Assassination Culture’ (Not Trump) For WHCD Attack
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelsein

Posted on 04/26/2026 2:22:43 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

[snip] In an interview with Steve Schmidt, a founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project, asked whether the country has a “rhetoric problem” in light of multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, Schmidt pointed squarely at Trump:

“I think that there's one person, beyond and above all others, who's responsible for poisoning the rhetoric in America. And that guy's name is Donald Trump . . . He's an insurrectionist, the foremost domestic enemy of the Constitution in American history. He is a vile and disgusting man. A convicted sex predator, and likely a pedophile.”

Steve, we've got your "vile and disgusting man" right here.

But on Sunday morning, a very different explanation emerged on CNN.

Appearing on special coverage, CNN security analyst and former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow did not point to Trump. Instead, he described what he called an “assassination culture”—a decentralized, digitally driven phenomenon in which grievance and ideology are reinforced in online echo chambers.

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1 posted on 04/26/2026 2:22:43 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Anyone more vile than Steve Schmidt? And how did CNN ever hire this former Secret Service agent, who actually told the truth?

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 04/26/2026 2:24:07 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They are the DNC’s Luigi Assassins and their sidekicks, the furry butt boyz.


3 posted on 04/26/2026 2:24:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't let your KID grow up to be a Democrat Luigi Assassin. SAY NO TO COLLEGE. GET A JOB!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What would he say if someone assassinated anyone he was fond of? Would it be the culture?


4 posted on 04/26/2026 2:24:58 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Great point. The former Secret Service agent made a very similar point:

“He cited what he termed the “Mangione effect,” in which individuals latch onto a grievance, find validation online, and come to see violent action as justified.”


5 posted on 04/26/2026 2:27:32 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The line in the ‘manifesto’ that got my attention is this one.... “And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

So where did he get that from.... oh, it’s a pack of lies that are repeated day in, day out on the LSM, social media, etc. And this discussion of an ‘assassination culture’ was on CNN?? Fitting that of course it was...whether they said it or didn’t challenge a guest who said it.


6 posted on 04/26/2026 2:37:05 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I blame , academia and provocateurs from the Democrat party promoted through legion media.

A Stark Contrast: As The Bible Is Read In The Nation’s Capitol, Vast Anti-Christian Corruption Rises To The Surface

Last Sunday, I joined House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and others to kick off the week-long “America Reads the Bible” initiative, where President Donald Trump read an appeal to God from 2 Chronicles 7:14. Meanwhile, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) spent the weekend saying we don’t need any help from on high.

Speaking at a Democratic Women’s Caucus luncheon, Booker warned, “Ladies and gentlemen, there is a storm in our nation!” Then, pointing upward, he declared, “What we need is not from on high. We need foot soldiers of our democracy willing to stand up.”

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https://harbingersdaily.com/a-stark-contrast-as-the-bible-is-read-in-the-nations-capitol-vast-anti-christian-corruption-rises-to-the-surface/

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see what I mean ?

Calling for “foot soldiers”,,,is that like an assassin?


7 posted on 04/26/2026 2:54:13 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“He cited what he termed the “Mangione effect,” in which individuals latch onto a grievance, find validation online, and come to see violent action as justified.”


Individuals don’t “latch onto a grievance” by themselves, somebody, something encourage them to do that. And they don’t need to find “validation online”, they find validation everywhere, from the local and national news to their teachers to their preferred leftist politicians to the late night comedy shows.

The diversion and euphemisms used to avoid talking about the real instigators (Democrats and their lapdog the media, learning institutions, the assassination culture of the left...) is disgusting.


8 posted on 04/26/2026 2:57:46 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: cuz1961

Speaking at a Democratic Women’s Caucus luncheon, Booker warned, “Ladies and gentlemen, there is a storm in our nation!””


So now, there is only 2 genders? Inclusive Democrats, boot this LGBTQ+ hater right wing extremist Cory Booker out of the party.


9 posted on 04/26/2026 3:02:26 PM PDT by miniTAX
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“ the real instigators (Democrats and their lapdog the media, learning institutions, the assassination culture of the left...) is disgusting.”

A new term which I just learned last night is “Stochastic terrorist”. It describes the Dems in DC and their willing accomplices in the propaganda media.


10 posted on 04/26/2026 3:04:55 PM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

United States intelligence officials and independent researchers have documented extensive Chinese influence operations that aim to sow social discord and, in some cases, have explicitly encouraged political violence and civil unrest. While the primary goal of these campaigns is often to portray the U.S. as a declining power or to silence critics, tactics include the use of bot networks and AI-generated content to inflame domestic tensions.

- google AI


11 posted on 04/26/2026 3:17:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Estimates suggest that China spends billions of dollars annually on a global scale to shape public opinion, promote its narratives, and conduct influence operations that often include anti-U.S. messaging and disinformation. While a precise, public figure solely for social media is difficult to isolate due to systemic opacity, analysts estimated the broader annual external propaganda budget was roughly $7 billion to $10 billion as of 2023–2024.


12 posted on 04/26/2026 3:19:22 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Great point. The former Secret Service agent made a very similar point:

“He cited what he termed the “Mangione effect,” in which individuals latch onto a grievance, find validation online, and come to see violent action as justified."

The problem is, Mark, uh, only Republicans are targeted. Trump, Kirk -- it is obvious that the marxists have engaged what Scientologists embrace as "fair play".

Change. My. Mind.

13 posted on 04/26/2026 3:22:57 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There’s no real debate over the fact that the USA is a very violent culture, and always has been. The whole frontier identity we have applauds violence.

Just look at the movies, novels, games, and TV shows popular in our culture; nearly all of them depict serious violence as a rational choice to solve a problem.


14 posted on 04/26/2026 3:27:20 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

They say a half hour of television exposes the viewer to more scenes of graphic violence than a head-hunter in Borneo will experience in his entire life.


15 posted on 04/26/2026 3:31:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

When “Lincoln Project” mentioned, you know it was going to be a bunch of lies from disgustingly disgraced people. Enough said.


16 posted on 04/26/2026 3:31:27 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These commies all belong in mental hospitals..I would have one question for them, fine, they take out Trump then what, do they think that once they get power back someone from the right wont go out and take out their guy, so when does it end..when NEITHER side has a President..so they are cool with that, they just hate Trump SO damn much that they think that once he’s gone they will be happy again, well guess what, they will NEVER be happy they will always be miserable because they were born miserable and will die miserable that is who they are its in their DNA


17 posted on 04/26/2026 3:34:18 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Its ironic that schmuck calls Trump a pedo when the Lincoln Project raped numerous young boys just saying


18 posted on 04/26/2026 3:35:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The lefties are just projecting their own wickedness onto their opponents as usual.


19 posted on 04/26/2026 3:38:13 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Not sure if they were underage, but the same general thought occurred to me.


20 posted on 04/26/2026 3:40:07 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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