It’s been two months since a would-be assassination nearly killed Former President Trump in Butler, Pa. We all remember the shocking images of a bloodied Trump and took inspiration from his strength and resolve in the aftermath. We also remember how Democrats, including Joe Biden, called for the nation's political temperature to “cool down,” afterwards.
That lasted, what, maybe fifteen minutes?
Seriously, it took no time at all for Democrats, including Biden, to go back to the same unhinged rhetoric. They quickly resumed calling Trump a threat to democracy and a wannabe dictator.
Today, in the aftermath of the second failed attempt on Trump's life in Florida, Democrats are once again scrambling to condemn the violence they've encouraged through years of reckless rhetoric. I'd share their social media posts, but what's the point? They don't mean what they say, just as they didn't mean it two months ago.
They inspired this. You've heard the dangerous words from the top down — even from Joe Biden.
In 2022, his infamous Independence Hall speech marked a new level of vilification against Trump and his supporters. The left, including Biden, repeatedly compared Trump to Hitler. The media, left-wing politicians, and Hollywood elites all followed suit, fostering an atmosphere where political violence seems not only justified but inevitable. In fact, just a few weeks before Trump was shot in Butler, Biden declared, “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation… He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy.”
If you call someone Hitler enough times, someone will feel morally obligated to stop him. It’s not just hyperbole — it’s a narrative designed to incite action. Over the years, elected Democrats and media figures have painted Trump not as a political opponent but as an existential threat. That’s how we got to this point — two assassination attempts in within the span of nine weeks.
Even after this second failed attempt on Trump’s life, the media and the left are spinning the story, trying to pin the blame on Trump and his supporters, claiming that they’ve escalated political tensions.
"Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail," claimed NBC's Lester Holt. "Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants" in Springfield, Ohio.
NBC's Lester Holt: "Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants" in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. pic.twitter.com/apw9WQ1liR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024
"This heated rhetoric can only go so far before, unfortunately, it, you know, it has led to violence on both sides of the aisle and so I think it’s just something that Democrats and Republicans have to be very cognizant about," said MSNBC's Elise Jordan. "What can we all do to take the temperature down?"
"Yeah," MSNBC anchor Alex Witt replied. "Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because he’s going to reach out to his supporters and say 'let's take this down?'"
WATCH: MSNBC blames Trump for getting shot at YET AGAIN, places sole onus of "lowering the temperature" and "toning down the rhetoric" on him. pic.twitter.com/4MlWACRvkB
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 15, 2024
The left will never tone down its rhetoric because it doesn't see its rhetoric as the problem. It's Trump's fault. It's always Trump's fault. These are the same people who justified the BLM riots in 2020, which inflicted billions of dollars in damage and killed innocent people. I don't doubt that there are plenty of people on the left who think killing Trump would be morally justified, and that's because of the rhetoric from the left.
