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It’s a weird marketing campaign full of bullets and blame-shifting.
It’s additionally a marketing campaign full of gossip and unproven accusations, exaggerations and falsehoods.
Simply ask your canine or cat.
TRUMP BLAMES KAMALA RHETORIC FOR 2ND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AS DEMOCRATS BLAME HIM FOR HAITIANS IN OHIO
To have two tried assassinations towards a presidential nominee inside six weeks is completely chilling. There needs to be no debate in anyway. Joe Biden, having made a pleasant name to Donald Trump – who mentioned he “couldn’t have been nicer” – ought to order the Secret Service to guard Trump as if he had been president now.
Meaning the company would have shut down his West Palm Seaside golf course whereas he performed. This could occur instantly. Golf programs are inherently onerous to guard as a result of they’re giant, flat surfaces with virtually no place to take cowl. A Washington Publish editorial agrees with me. Overlook the bureaucratic nuances, that is nuts. Had a sharp-eyed agent not noticed the barrel of a gun sticking by means of a chain-link fence, the shooter, who has an extended felony document, would possibly effectively have succeeded.
Trump could have 9 lives, however we don’t need him dropping any extra.
Former President Trump is pictured in entrance of the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seaside, Florida. (Getty Pictures)
In contrast to his name to tone issues down after the near-miss in Butler – which didn’t final lengthy – Trump went on the offensive, telling Fox Digital that the Florida gunman “believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it. Their rhetoric is inflicting me to be shot at.”
It’s true that the Democrats have consistently described Trump as a hazard to democracy, a would-be dictator who tried to steal an election and would by no means permit one other one. The hostile media have performed a distinguished function right here, routinely likening Trump to Hitler or Mussolini.
Trump, for his half, has referred to as his opponents a hazard to democracy as effectively, saying they’ve weaponized legislation enforcement towards him for partisan causes.
KAMALA STAYS ON OFFENSE, TRUMP WENT TO PERSONAL ATTACKS, ABC MUCH TOUGHER ON FORMER PRESIDENT
And Democrats have tried to flip the script, trotting out an extended record of inflammatory feedback by Trump since he began working in 2015.
In my opinion, the media have moved on too rapidly from the second assassination try. However why waste time on a mindless seek for “motive,” aside from political speaking factors? Anybody who tries to kill a presidential candidate for the notoriety is by definition a loopy individual.
JD Vance says that since no person has tried to kill Harris and Trump has survived two makes an attempt, “I’d say that’s fairly sturdy proof that the left must tone down the rhetoric, and desires to chop this crap out.”
Former President Trump is seen with blood on his face as Secret Service brokers rush him off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Vance has been vindicated in one other manner. I don’t know why Trump introduced up the completely debunked story about “they’re consuming the canines, they’re consuming the cats” after an inflow of 15,000 authorized Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Even Republican Gov. Mike DeWine calls {that a} false “piece of rubbish.”
Trump’s working mate has additionally unfold the story, and was accused of prompting the bomb threats which have shut colleges and different amenities there for days – one thing for which no public determine needs to be blamed.
Now we be taught that each one these calls got here from one other nation in an effort to spice up friction within the Ohio city.
DEBATE CHALLENGE: THE PRESSURE’S ON KAMALA AS SHE AND TRUMP TRADE FLIP-FLOP CHARGES
In the meantime, I had no intention of citing unsubstantiated on-line rumors towards Laura Loomer, the far-right conspiracist who thinks 9/11 was an inside job, as a result of I don’t suppose a self-described Islamophobe ought to get extra oxygen.
However now she’s hit again on her Rumble podcast:
“The media now could be 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’ve taken it thus far!
Far-right activist Laura Loomer speaks to the media previous to the start of former President Trump’s Trial at Manhattan Prison Courtroom on April 15, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Pictures)
“And, you already know, if I used to be a leftist journalist, if I used to be a Democrat, my God, the media could be up in arms if the Republican media was doing this to a, you already know, a left-wing journalist–
“My God, they’re misogynist. They’re bullying a lady. They’re making an attempt to, they’re making an attempt to Monica Lewinsky her!”
After which she smeared Kamala Harris, saying she had carried out oral intercourse on Willie Brown to get to the highest. This was earlier than Brown was San Francisco mayor and the 2 overtly dated for a few years within the Nineteen Nineties, a decade after he had separated from his spouse.
A lot of our politics now activates prices and countercharges of misinformation and disinformation. So I discover the newest blast from Hillary Clinton virtually 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 nominee attacked free speech.
She referred to as for felony prices and civil penalties towards People “engaged” in spreading “propaganda.”
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What? Who decides the place to attract the road between aggressive advocacy and propaganda? Do we wish one administration’s Justice Division to make these calls towards politicians, activists and journalists aligned with the opposite social gathering?
It should by no means cross, however at the same time as a little bit of messaging, what an assault on the First Modification proper to free speech.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Primarily based in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and recurrently seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different packages.
