It should come as no surprise that the mainstream media's coverage of the Trump assassination attempt has been disgraceful.
For example, the New York Times refused to acknowledge it as an assassination attempt on Sunday's front page.
The New York Times actually published this headline.
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) July 14, 2024
They couldn't even call it what it was: an assassination attempt. pic.twitter.com/Fqa0S0fjt3
Why wouldn't they call it what it was? It had been confirmed as an assassination attempt well before printing. How can they justify calling it "a shooting" when Trump was indisputably the target of an assassin's bullet that barely missed. And the paper knew it too.
"Former President Donald J. Trump was injured in a shooting just minutes into his rally on Saturday in Butler, Pa.," the article began, "in what officials said they were investigating as an assassination attempt."
A separate article, which did acknowledge it was an assassination attempt in the headline, seemingly blamed Trump for the incident by linking the assassination attempt to the Capitol riot, falsely accusing Trump of encouraging his supporters to riot.
Mr. Trump has often been accused of fomenting violence, most notably on Jan. 6, 2021, when he encouraged a throng of supporters to march on the Capitol, where they ransacked the building in an attempt to stop Congress from ratifying Mr. Biden’s election victory.
CBS contributor Samantha Vinograd, a former Department of Homeland Security official duing the Obama administration, also linked the assassination attempt to the Capitol riot, and claimed that the real concern now is retaliation from the right.
"There's an investigation into the security failures that resulted in this incident. And then the biggest threat that officials are telling me tonight is in the form of retaliatory violence," she claimed.
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She added, "We know that tensions were already high before this incident, and the counter terrorism officials and homeland security officials that I've spoken to in the last few hours are deeply concerned that this event will be used as a rallying cry to launch attacks against individuals associated with the Biden campaign and lead to broader domestic distress."
On CBS, Margaret Brennan and Samantha Vinograd talk up "retaliatory violence" from right-wingers, and then we hear of January 6. Knew this line was coming.... pic.twitter.com/JO9572UlXn
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 14, 2024
CBS's Robert Costa even had the audacity to complain that “many Trump supporters on social media tonight are extremely angry” over the assassination attempt.
CBS's Robert Costa complains "Trump supporters on social media tonight are extremely angry" at the assassination attempt, lamenting "this is still a politically charged moment".
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 14, 2024
Margaret Brennan demands Republicans "take the political temperature down" pic.twitter.com/LznPL6WtC6
CBS News's Margaret Brennan also blamed Trump for not telling his supporters to "take a breath and step back."
CBS's Margaret Brennan defends her comments lecturing Trump and his supporters as the ones responsible for changing the "rhetoric" in our body politic, claiming it's incumbent on them to protect our fragile democracy pic.twitter.com/ka1iR8khZx
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 14, 2024
Excuse me?
Meanwhile, NBC's Garrett Haake lamented that Trump supporters “are using images” of Trump covered in blood and defiantly raising his fist in the air after he was shot to “seiz[e] on this moment to elevate him politically.”
NBC's Garrett Haake frets Republicans "are seizing on" the images of a defiant Trump after a gunman tried to assassinate him pic.twitter.com/hdbZMpQR4j
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 14, 2024
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