Posted on 12/22/2016 7:52:18 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
An Ithaca man accused of killing a UPS driver said in court Monday afternoon that not only did he believe he shot and killed Donald Trump, but that no evidence could be presented to him to suggest otherwise.
Justin R. Barkley, 38, said during his arraignment and subsequent attempt to plead guilty, "I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly."
Now obviously Barkley is out of his mind. But the murder of an innocent man is another example of how the media's climate of hate can backfire. Did the media's paranoid fantasies about Trump feed into Barkley's paranoid fantasies?
It's an interesting question. Meanwhile a man is dead.
The media is pushing its fake news censorship hysteria. Meanwhile its own news can only help encourage crazy people to do things like this.
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Could be nuts, or maybe had a grudge against the driver and is setting up a mental defense.
No, it didn’t.
If he had this capacity for violence, it was going to happen sooner or later.
I’ve known several people with severe mental disorders and their paranoia isn’t limited to one person or event.
If it wasn’t Trump who he wanted to kill, it would have been someone else eventually.
I HATE the MSM but this isn’t on them.
If the left can blame Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords, then the media should bear the blame for the murder of this UPS driver.
Thank you for getting the point.
Ithaca is one crazy place
Anti-Isreal, Pro Palestine, real creepy place, weird, I don’t understand it.
This guy is just crazy, off the wall nuts. I don’t blame the media for this, even though I would love to. But crazy people are crazy
The media calls someone the new Hitler every day someone is going to think they need to kill Hitler.
But he didn’t kill Hitler or Trump
The guy is off the walls nuts
Killing a UPS driver thinking that you killed Donald Trump is off the walls nuts. Even with the media telling us daily how bad Trump is and will be.
Fake News from MSM caused this. Will they take responsibility? never
A contributing factor.
Seems liberal are evil little sh*ts....
Here’s another jerk:
“Artists Want Ivanka Trump to Remove Their Work That Hangs on Her Walls”
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Justin Barkley has worked for the state for years as a mental health counselor.
Yes, the leftist media was biased and purposefully misrepresented Mr. Trump which means they are culpable.
The media has fueled thousands of hate crimes. This has become priority one of the old media empire to stir up the hatred for white people that are sickened by the troop of African Muslim criminals currently looting the country.
Didn’t they call for someone to assassinate him?
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