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It is a weird marketing campaign stuffed with bullets and blame-shifting.
It’s also a marketing campaign stuffed with gossip and unsubstantiated accusations, exaggerations and lies.
Simply ask your canine or cat.
TRUMP BLAMES KAMALA FOR 2ND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, WHILE DEMOCRATS BLAME HIM FOR HAITIANS IN OHIO
Two tried assassinations of a presidential candidate in six weeks is completely horrifying. There needs to be no debate about it in any respect. Joe Biden, who made a pleasant telephone name to Donald Trump – saying he “couldn’t have been nicer” – ought to order the Secret Service to guard Trump as if he had been now president.
Which means the company would have closed his West Palm Seashore golf course whereas he was taking part in. This must occur instantly. Golf programs are inherently troublesome to guard as a result of they’re massive, flat surfaces with nearly no place to take cowl. A Washington Put up Editorial agrees with me. Neglect the bureaucratic nuances, that is loopy. If a sharp-eyed officer hadn’t seen the barrel of a gun sticking by a fence, the shooter, who has a protracted legal report, might need succeeded in taking pictures.
Trump might have 9 lives, however we do not need him to lose any extra.
Former President Trump is pictured in entrance of the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore, Florida. (Getty Photos)
Opposite to his name for a lightening of the load after the near-miss in Butler — which did not final lengthy — Trump went on the assault, telling Fox Digital that the Florida shooter “believed Biden’s and Harris’s rhetoric, and he acted on it. Their rhetoric is getting me shot at.”
It’s true that Democrats have constantly portrayed Trump as a hazard to democracy, a would-be dictator who tried to steal an election and would by no means permit one once more. The hostile media has performed a outstanding function on this, routinely evaluating Trump to Hitler or Mussolini.
Trump, in flip, has referred to as his opponents a hazard to democracy, saying they’re utilizing legislation enforcement in opposition to him for partisan causes.
KAMALA CONTINUES ON ATTACK, TRUMP TOOK PERSONAL ATTACKS, ABC MUCH HARDER AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT
And Democrats have tried to flip the script by reciting a protracted record of inflammatory feedback Trump has made since he started his marketing campaign in 2015.
In my view, the media moved on too shortly after the second assassination try. However why waste time on a futile seek for “motive” aside from political speaking factors? Anybody who tries to assassinate a presidential candidate for notoriety is by definition a lunatic.
JD Vance says that since nobody tried to assassinate Harris and Trump survived two makes an attempt, “that is fairly sturdy proof that the left must tone down its rhetoric and banish this nonsense.”
Former President Trump is seen with blood on his face as Secret Service brokers chase him off stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP through Getty Photos)
Vance was acquitted on one other rely. I do not know why Trump would push the totally debunked “they’re consuming the canines, they’re consuming the cats” story after an inflow of 15,000 authorized Haitian immigrants into Springfield, Ohio. Even Republican Gov. Mike DeWine calls {that a} false “piece of trash.”
Trump’s working mate has additionally unfold the story, accusing him of constructing the bomb threats that closed faculties and different establishments there for days — one thing for which no public determine could be held accountable.
Now we’re studying that each one these calls had been coming from out of state, in an try to extend rigidity within the Ohio metropolis.
DEBATE CHALLENGE: THE PRESSURE ON KAMALA IS UP AS SHE AND TRUMP EXCHANGE FLIP-FLOP INDEMNIFICATIONS
In the meantime, it wasn’t my intention to carry up unsubstantiated on-line rumors about Laura Loomer, the far-right conspiracy theorist who believes 9/11 was an inside job. I don’t assume anybody who calls themselves an Islamophobe deserves extra consideration.
However now she has responded on her Rumble podcast:
“The media is now accusing me of, you already know, having an affair with Donald Trump. Such a salacious lie, so malicious, so disrespectful to Donald Trump and Melania Trump! They let it get thus far!
Far-right activist Laura Loomer speaks to media forward of the beginning of former President Trump’s trial on the Manhattan District Court docket on April 15, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Photos)
“And you already know, if I had been a left-wing journalist, if I had been a Democrat, my God, the media could be in an uproar if the Republican media did this to a, you already know, left-wing journalist…
“My God, they’re misogynists. They’re bullying a girl. They’re making an attempt, they’re making an attempt to make Monica Lewinsky her!”
After which she smeared Kamala Harris, saying she had oral intercourse with Willie Brown to get to the highest. This was earlier than Brown was mayor of San Francisco and the 2 had been overtly relationship for a couple of years within the 90s, a decade after he divorced his spouse.
A lot of our politics now revolves round accusations and counter-accusations of misinformation and disinformation, so I discover Hillary Clinton’s newest outburst nearly inexplicable.
Sure, she’s selling her fourth memoir and in her first interview with Rachel Maddow, the previous first woman, senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate, she attacked free speech.
She referred to as for legal expenses and civil sanctions in opposition to Individuals “concerned” in spreading “propaganda.”
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What? Who decides the place the road is between aggressive advocacy and propaganda? Do we wish the Justice Division of 1 authorities making these calls in opposition to politicians, activists and journalists affiliated with the opposite occasion?
It should by no means work, however at the same time as a message it’s an assault on the suitable to free speech as enshrined within the First Modification.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). He lives in Washington, D.C., joined the community in July 2013 and seems repeatedly on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different applications.
