How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald Trump

Two months ago, I predicted that the media were laying the groundwork for justifying the assassination of Donald Trump after the New Republic published an entire issue depicting the former president as Adolf Hitler. I wish I could claim some supernatural gift of foresight, but it was not the first time I had made this prediction, and I was not alone, as several other pundits, including Tucker Carlson, had also seen the writing on the wall.

The attempted assassination of the leading presidential candidate on Saturday was shocking, but in many ways it felt inevitable. The American media have been steadily intensifying their anti-Trump rhetoric for years, whipping their audience into a murderous frenzy. The disgusting freaks who constitute the regime press are not concerned or outraged at the attempt to murder Trump; they are simply disappointed that the instrument of their vengeance was a bad shot.

The media have always portrayed Republican candidates as dangerous to some degree, but from the moment Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he inspired a particularly rabid form of vitriol from the press. The real-estate tycoon spoke to a forgotten constituency: working- and middle-class Americans in areas like the Rust Belt. These were old and obsolete Americans, the kind of voters who embarrass even the GOP, and the ruling class had slated them for replacement. These obsolete Americans were supposed to quietly fade away, slowly dying deaths of despair, until Trump gave them a voice.

This was Trump’s unforgivable sin, and from the moment of his improbable victory, the press set out to destroy this rogue president.

The left has been calling conservatives racists, sexists, and homophobes for decades. That kind of relentless slander is corrosive to the public discourse, but at this point it has become so common that it turns into background noise. During the Trump presidency, leftists escalated their vile rhetoric to include first “white supremacist” and eventually “fascist.” People who are used to being constantly villainized by every major institution do not always notice a critical shift in the zeitgeist, but this change in language put the United States on the path to this perilous moment.

In our current moral framework, racists are bad people, guilty of one of the most terrible crimes, but they are still humans. Fascists, on the other hand, are Nazis, descendants of our modern secular version of Satan, Adolf Hitler. Fascists are inhuman agents of evil, and every kind of action, including horrific violence, is justified if it is deployed in the service of stopping a Nazi takeover. This is why the left began using the slogan “punch a Nazi” in 2017 and then steadily extending the term fascist to anyone who opposed the progressive agenda.

Political violence is a fire that quickly burns through the fabric of your society. Once that fire is sparked, it becomes impossible to control, which is why any ruling elites who care about the future of their country know better than to deploy it.

Political street violence and assassination attempts drive power in a state hurtling toward civil war. This is why the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots of 2020 were a terrible omen. When riots rage across the country for weeks and the police spend most of their time kneeling in front of protesters, it sends a clear message. It appeared that political violence was acceptable, but the protesters during January 6 quickly learned that this new rule only applied to one side. The left expects to deploy political violence at a whim without consequences, but that is a demon no one can control for long.

Cable news media and assorted Democratic politicians had been throwing around the label of fascist for a few years, but the truly alarming escalation came when Joe Biden began to employ the language in 2022. The president first tested the language at a fundraiser in August of that year before using it in his infamous “blood red” speech in front of Independence Hall. During the speech, Biden claimed that Trump and his supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” while warning that “equality and democracy are under assault.”

Biden’s X account is full of similar language, with one post reading, “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for.”

Declaring your political opponent a threat to the nation and everything it stands for is already a “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” kind of moment, but things have only escalated from there. At some point leftists started sneaking “existential threat” into their rhetoric. For anyone unfamiliar, existential threat is not a light turn of phrase. It means something that will end your existence if you do not stop it. It is something that one needs to stop with any and every means available — including violence.

The regime has attempted to bankrupt Trump, remove him from the ballot, and throw him in jail. All three strategies have failed, and if Trump is truly an existential threat to freedom, democracy, and the nation itself, then there is only one logical course of action left. The media knew this and broadcasted their unhinged message of hate to every unstable fanatic they could reach until someone finally took them seriously. The Biden administration has been using the Justice Department, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and recently even the Pentagon to label Trump supporters as domestic terror threats while teaming up with the media to groom real leftist assassins in waiting.

Corey Comperatore was a volunteer fire chief from Pennsylvania who had recently celebrated his 50th birthday. He had posted enthusiastically on X about hearing Trump speak at his rally. On Facebook, Comperatore’s daughter described the Trump supporter as a devout Christian and dedicated father. According to the post, when the shots rang out, the first responder did not hesitate, forcing his wife and daughter to the ground before shielding them with his own body.

In that moment, Comperatore covered himself in glory, paying the ultimate price to protect those he loved. The hands of the left, however, are covered in his blood.

Donald Trump reacted to the attempted shooting with stunning composure. After being hit with a bullet, the former president did not freeze up or scurry away, but immediately jumped to his feet and pumped his fist yelling “Fight!” to his supporters. The iconic photo of his defiant pose will go down in history. Progressives have quickly realized that a nearly martyred Trump is an optical disaster for them, but instead of backing away from their rhetoric, the media have escalated it.

In saner times, a former president and leading candidate narrowly avoiding death with steely courage would be celebrated by a reunified country, but we do not live in those times. It takes a particular kind of soulless degenerate to get on cable news the day after Trump is shot and treat the billionaire and his supporters as the real threat, but apparently MSNBC and CNN are well stocked with such people. Celebrities like George Takei have immediately returned to using violence-inspiring rhetoric like “existential threat to democracy” without missing a beat. David Frum responded to the assassination attempt by writing a piece in the Atlantic calling Trump a dictator.

The left managed to groom one shooter, and they will not stop until they groom another.

Biden kept escalating his rhetoric against Trump, claiming that Trump and his supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” while warning that “equality and democracy are under assault.”

Biden’s X account was full of such language.

Biden even used the threatening phrase “putting Trump in the crosshairs”-——meaning being aimed at by a gun, such as a rifle that has an aiming device with crosshairs.

Crosshairs are a pair of fine wires or lines crossing at right angles..... the focus of a gun sight, for use in positioning and aiming at a target.

During the Trump presidency, leftists escalated their vile rhetoric to include first “white supremacist” and eventually “fascist.”

That was alarming enough, but the real change in the zeitgeist occurred when the FBI took up that refrain and actually promoted the notion that the greatest terrorist threat in the country came from White Supremacists, a political cohort that frankly nobody sane had ever heard of. "Promoted" as in not only said it but actively participated in it. That sort of validation from a heretofore trusted (more or less) source sealed the deal even as it crippled the FBI's own credibility.

We have the media, the executive department, the DoJ, and Congress unapologetically creating and sustaining organized hate propaganda and pretending to be alarmed at its success in public while laughing about it in private. Recently we witnessed unbelievable hypocrisy in the principal offender, Joe Biden, demanding that the temperature be turned down by his targets, with the media chiming in "yeah, that's right, it's all that hate speech from the White Supremacist Nazis on the other side that's causing our people to shoot at them." That wasn't intended to convince, it was intended to rub our noses in it.

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