Below is my Hill column on the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump. We all watched as the horrific scene unfolded on television. It was a traumatic moment for the entire country, but it was hardly surprising given this age of rage. We are still learning about the suspected shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. He was able to use a roof top 130 yards away from the rally for the assassination attempt. He is being described as a registered Republican but donated to a Democratic political organization.
Here is the column:
The assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump left a nation stunned. But the most shocking aspect was that it was not nearly as surprising as it should have been. For months, politicians, the press and pundits have escalated reckless rhetoric in this campaign on both sides. That includes claims that Trump was set to kill democracy, unleash “death squads” and make homosexuals and reporters “disappear.”
President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election.
I discuss this rage rhetoric in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” We are living through an age of rage. It is not our first, but it may be the most dangerous such period in our history.
Some of us have been objecting for years that this rage rhetoric is a dangerous political pitch for the nation. While most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take it as true. They believe that homosexuals are going to be “disappeared” as claimed on ABC’s “The View” or that the Trump “death squads” are now green lighted by a conservative Supreme Court, as claimed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Rage is addictive and contagious. It is also liberating. It allows people a sense of license to take actions that would ordinarily be viewed as repulsive.
As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the norm as with Kathy Griffin featuring herself holding the bloody severed head of Trump.
Just recently, another celebrity, actress Lea DeLaria, begged Biden to “blow [Trump] up” after the recent presidential immunity decision. DeLaria explained that “this is a **** war. This is a war now, and we are fighting for our **** country. And these a**holes are going to take it away. They’re going to take it away.”
For months, people have heard politicians and press call Trump “Hitler” and the GOP a Nazi movement. Some compared stopping Trump to stopping Hitler in 1933. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) declared Trump “is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated.” He later apologized.
Others say that Trump “will destroy the world” unless he is stopped.
I do not believe that the politicians or pundits engaging in what my book calls “rage rhetoric” want actual violence. But they have knowingly created conditions for extremist views and, yes, extremist actions.
The media has been quick to denounce reckless rhetoric from the right while largely ignoring the same language on the left. That included threats against conservative Supreme Court justices before the assassination plot against Brett Kavanaugh.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) went to the steps of the Supreme Court and called out Kavanaugh by name: “I want to tell you, (Justice Neil) Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Again, I do not believe that Schumer wanted Nicholas Roske to go to the home of Justice Kavanaugh to kill him. However, these politicians also know that some citizens will hear this rhetoric as a justification for violent conduct.
Thus, when the president is claiming that the election may end democracy in the nation, it can be heard as much as a license as a warning, particularly when he adds “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
We still do not know about the shooter in this assassination attempt. However, we know all too well how unhinged people can find justification in the incendiary rhetoric of our politics. This moment did not occur in a vacuum; it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage.
We have come full circle to where we began as a Republic. In the 1800 election, Federalists and Jeffersonians engaged in similar rage rhetoric.
Federalists told citizens that, if Jefferson were elected, “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.”
Jeffersonians warned that, if Adams were reelected, “chains, dungeons, transportation, and perhaps the gibbet” awaited citizens and they “would instantaneously be put to death.”
Both sides stoked the anger and fears of the public, and violence was seen across the nation.
In our current age of rage, politicians have sought to use the same anger and fear to rally support at any cost.
This is the cost.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, June 18, 2024).
Democrats are like stepping in a pile of dog shit where the dog ate a box of bazooka joe bubble gum.
You forgot to mention the SCOTUS Justice that opine that assassination would be legal.
They did not opine any such thing – it already was. Obama ordered the assassination of Two US citizens and many many others.
As is typical of the left you massively over simplify complex issues to get answers that do not work.
While the immunity decision was wrong – the President has no absolute immunity and total criminal immunity qualified by the constitutional requirement to impeach and remove them first.
Do you think if Biden had ordered the assassination of Trump that it would take less than a week to impeach and remove ?
Impeach maybe, but not remove, in fact not a single Democrat senator would vote to remove (except perhaps a vulnerable Dem in a red state like Tester). The others would be praising him. He would be their hero.
“THE DOOR WAS LEFT OPEN”
The Dallas Police left the side door open; it was always locked.
Jack Ruby entered that door undetected just before the “patsy,” Lee Harvey Oswald, was walked out from the basement to the subterranean parking lot to be transferred to the county jail.
Jack Ruby WAS GIVEN ACCESS and he took his shot.
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There is no excuse for that roof in Butler not being occupied by SS, FBI, State, or Municipal officers.
Yes, it is reckless rhetoric and with motive.
“…it’s time Trump is in the bullseye” was calling up a gunman. Why isn’t President Biden accountable?
Biden’s speech regarding the SCOTUS immunity opinion also tells he’s ordering it. He’s a King. Sotomayor’s reckless opinion is present.
There was Schumer’s reckless rhetoric and the Kavanaugh attempted demise. Again, there wasn’t accountability.
The reckless rhetoric daily on news/entertainment programs and without accountability is what is.
Trump was shot. A fireman was shot and died. An alleged gunman was shot and died. That’s all we know and all anyone will know.
Right, Mr. Turley, reckless rhetoric has consequences.
Eyes were on the incompetent President Biden after the debate. People calling for his resignation or a new candidate seemed endless and it was time to put Trump in the bullseye signaling the gunman.
It didn’t matter if Trump died. What mattered was the deflection of attention away from Biden. The attempted assassination was sufficient. Not another word about dementia, step aside , resign. It worked.
Contemptuous and Governor Abbott was solemn in calling out it’s not a game. A man died. A man was murdered. To the Biden regime it doesn’t matter at all. It’s indifference at best. Deflection was accomplished.
The proof is in the pudding.
“Again, I do not believe that Schumer wanted Nicholas Roske to go to the home of Justice Kavanaugh to kill him. However, these politicians also know that some citizens will hear this rhetoric as a justification for violent conduct.”
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It was inevitable as I’ve said for months now.
When people I enter into conversations with are clear that they haven’t a clue as to what is going on outside the gates to our community manned by an armed security staff, I invite them to read the exchanges of thoughts and ideas set down herein daily.
Tonight Biden gave another campaign speech from our Oval Office, masqueraded as a speech about violence
having no place in our society and politics. This from the folks who gave us the riots in the streets doing damage
and violence to people during the 2020 election, from those who gave us the false description of what occurred
on January 6, a false flag event, from those who gave us all the lies about Russia, Charlottesville, etc., about Pres.
Trump for 8 years. And now Biden and those behind him (Obama & Staff, Brennan, Comey, etc.) want us
think they’re the “caring and loving” folks who just want to “get along.”
The scary part is he apparently forgot that the had already given the same speech twice already
And here is a tidbit most don’t know unless you’re from SE Wisconsin. The Mayor of Milwaukee, Cavalier Johnson, has a brother that shot a man 10X, once in the head. The man miraculously survived. While the police were looking for him he was holdup at his mother’s house in Milwaukee over Christman. Cavalier wants us to believe he had no idea where his brother was, like he never called or visited his mother over christmas… When he was finally located he was never charged and let loose.
Guess if you’re a black democrat, you can have family members commit attempted murder and walk away.
Prof. Turley, Excellent overview… yet.. still begs the question.. how did another ‘Lee Harvey Oswald’ character.. ‘loner’ & ‘lone gunman’ have the where-with-al, understanding, access, etc., etc., etc. to plan & execute with precision the logistics of being in the exact right place at the exact right time, completely undetected (and this time in a perch that could have been easily detected from the air…) as a gunman who almost managed to repeat history…??!! HOW is this even possible in this day and age with all the advanced computers, and surveillance & protective equipment available………..?!
Lea DeLaria – and the ignorant leftist aholes just like her – are in fact the ones destroying America. Oh, and stfu about ‘this is war’ like your some kind of Navy seal in a dress, who is going to go out there and ‘fight this war’. You’re just a pathetic, loud mouth left wing coward, who, if a real war broke out, would run like a rabbit and surround your ‘safe space’ with your private security, where you could have a good cry.
I don’t buy for a minute that this is merely the result of a populace whipped into a frenzy. There are many powerful people and forces who are seeing their influence and source of income threatened by another Trump administration. They can be found in our country, as well as abroad. They simply found a frenzied loner to do their bidding. It is so unlikely that he acted entirely alone.
Keep in mind
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-Chapter-25/
Biden calls for unity.
Unity in America was the Constitution in 1789.
Biden and the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) destroyed the Constitution and began the incremental implementation of the Communist Manifesto in 1860.
America will once again enjoy unity after America is repealed back to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Naturalization Act of the American Founders – the nation, the law, the people.
Jonathan: One of the crowning achievements of Pres. Biden in his first term was the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA). It has provided billions in needed projects to repair our crumbling infrastructure–along with thousands of new jobs.
MAGA Republicans just love to take credit for those projects. My MAGA Rep. in the House crows about the new bridges in his rural part of the state. Only one problem. He voted AGAINST the IIJA in 2021. Now along comes MAGA AL Sen. Tommy Tuberville who wants to take credit for money he got from the DOT: “Proud to announce that the Mobile River Project and Bayway Project will be receiving a $500 million grant from the Department of Transportation”. AL Dem. Rep. Terri Sewell pointed out the hypocrisy of Tuberville: “My Alabama colleagues like @Sen. Tuberville are right…but it’s a shame he voted against the bill that made it possible”.
All 8 of Alabama’s representatives in Congress requested federal funds from the IIJA. But NONE of them vote for the Act! MAGA Republicans are all hypocrites. They grovel at the public trough when it serves their political interests but they were first in line to vote against Biden’s Act. If DJT gets back in the Oval Office will he propose legislation that creates new jobs for American workers? Don’t hold your breath! Something else to consider when voting in November.
No, Dennis,
the main thrust of Biden’s “crowning achievement” that you reference (“Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act, IIJAI) actually REAUTHORIZES existing statutes and programs FROM PRIOR PRESIDENTS that were about to expire.
Including Amtrak rail service, the Highway Trust Fund, as well as “This division reauthorizes Department of Transportation (DOT) federal-aid highway and transportation infrastructure finance and innovation (TIFIA) programs, revises research, technology, and workforce education programs, and addresses tribal transportation needs” as well as, “reauthorizes through FY2026 several surface transportation programs, including the federal-aid highway program, transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program (TIFIA), federal lands access and tribal transportation programs, Territorial and Puerto Rico highway program, and nationally significant freight and highway projects;” and “reauthorizes through FY2026 other transportation programs, including the bridge investment program, congestion relief program, charging and fueling infrastructure grants, the rural surface transportation grant program, reduction of truck emissions at port facilities, nationally significant federal lands and tribal projects, ferry boat construction, and research, technology, and education programs; ”
Please read this, thanking you in advance. Yours truly, lin.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684
Well, see Lin, Dennis is just protecting his rice bowl. He won’t read or reply to you. His agreement with his organ grinder is X number of dances for X number of gift cards. George Clooney announced he’s pulling his funding on the Biden show, so Dennis may already be reduced to pulling train under a recently upgraded Alabama overpass. Lemme know if he does. It would be a refreshing change from the usual hit-and-run commie posters I’ve encountered..
Dennis McIntyre, again.. you present things out of context. The IIJA, which is better known as the BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) was/is the combined serious BIPARTISAN work of Both Dem & GOP Legislators, a fact you have completely distorted. Who pays you to try to mislead us with your constant stream of left-wing propaganda, which, btw. seldom has anything to do with the topic Prof. Turley has introduced for discussion in his forum.
It is not hyprocrisy to oppose a spending bill and later, IT IF PASSES, to try to get a portion of the money allocated. It would be a disservice to one’s constitutients to not try to get some of the funds which they are being forced to pay for.
IIJA. Completely unconstitutional.
Article 1, Section 8, Congress may not tax for or fund it; Congress may not regulate anything related to it.
That communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) rubbish must have been struck down before the ink was dry on the bill.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Of course you would come out and rave about one of the things that Trump and Biden share in common and are both WRONG about.
Whether it is Obama’s disasterous ARRA or Trump’s desparate desire to pass an infrastructure bill or Biden’s non-infrastructure infrastructure bill.
We are unfortunately not going to get rid of the stupidity of governemnt provided roads. But given that we are stuck with them – the real construction and maintanace of them is carried out by municipalities and states year in year out.
The claims that our infrustructure are crumblining come from the groups that would benefit for the federal contracts to waste more federal money.
All of Biden’s spending (and Trump’s) was inflationary and unnecescary.
No Biden does not deserve credit for anything.
Presidents do not create jobs – except government jobs.
The economy creates jobs.
Adam Smith got this right 250 years ago – neither Trump nor Biden can change this.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel, or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyranny
Dennis ‘call me Biden’s Baghdad Bob’ McIntyre tried this massive deflection. Dennis the Cheap Fake human being posted:
Jonathan: One of the crowning achievements of Pres. Biden in his first term was the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act
That’s the one that funnelled hundreds of billions of dollars into unions who kicked some of the money back to Soviet Democrat politicians. The one that funnelled hundreds of billions of dollars into Identity Politics voting groups that vote Soviet Democrat. The one that claimed it created jobs – where all that happened was people put out of work by Bribery Biden and his Wuhan Flu Czar, the unindicted felon Dr. Fauci, got hired again in some job.
Meanwhile, because we’re talking about political violence here – not Dennis McIntyre deflecting to Bribery Biden’s economic FAILURES where we’re supposed to believe Bidenomics and tens of millions of Illegal Alien Guest Biden Voters is good for the economy – let’s remind Baghdad Bob McIntyre of Bribery Biden’s dog whistles for political violence.
There’s then VP Bribery Biden speaking to Americans, saying the American police were systemically racist and went out hunting black Americans every single shift. All that rioting by Black Liars & Marxists in Ferguson and elsewhere, long before Trump – the rage behind the rioting came straight from the lyin’ lips of Bribery Biden and Bolshevik Barack.
And then Dennis McIntyre and his fellow domestic terrorists in the Soviet Democrats street thugs in Black Liars & Marxists and Antifa gave us the 2020 Season of Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Burning, Murder, Pillaging And Insurrection. Over 540 riots across the country. Over 30 murdered at those riots, including federal law enforcement. More damage than Hurricane Katrina. And Bribery Biden peaked his head out of the basement he was hiding in during the 2020 campaign to publically support Dennis and his fellow Soviet Democrat brownshirts, telling Americans that they were “a courageous group of Americans”.
We’re sinking in massive amounts of debt due to whoever runs the government with Bribery Biden as the puppet head, massive inflation, and Baghdad Bob wants to try telling Americans who can no longer afford their mortgages, to properly feed their kids, that these are all wonderful economic successes.
Dennis McIntyre, Soviet Democrat and Cheap Fake human being, thinks “Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes” still works.
Dennis/Baghdad Bob McIntyre gave you his lying rewrite of the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act
It has provided billions in needed projects to repair our crumbling infrastructure–along with thousands of new jobs.
Baghdad Bob McIntyre is lying to the audience about this act, which he almost certainly never read a single line of.
So let’s look at just some of the “billions in needed projects to repair our crumbling infrastructure”. Let’s play “spot the repairing crumbling infrastructure instead of pork barrel identity politics groups in these line items:
$300,000,000 to the National Endowment for the Arts. Because f*** it… it’s kind of like infrastructure.
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities! because no one even knew that was a thing
$300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting.
$500,000,000 to Museums and Libraries. “Infrastructure”… Who the hell knows how they are going to use it
$35,000,000 to the JFK Center for performing Arts. Because… “infrastructure”.
$7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries. Because… “infrastructure”.
$90,000,000 for the Peace Corp. Because… “infrastructure”.
$315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs. “Infrastructure”?
$300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance. Obviously infrastructure!
$300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance. Support service for Biden Illegal Alien Guest Voter importation infrastructure.
$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development. Infrastructure…
$25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building. Cleaning infrastructure… I shit you not, it’s on page 136
$10,000 per person for student loan bailout
$100,000,000 to NASA, because, who knows why.
$20,000,000,000 to the USPS, because why the hell not
$15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training / for when the GI Bill isn’t enough
$435,000,000 for mental health support for Congressional staffers.
$30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund/ because that will keep people employed when school unions demand schools be closed.
$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program. (Does not stop Tranny rapists and school schooters victimizing little kiddies in school.
$720,000,000 to Social Security Admin. Infrastructure??? But get this only $200,000,000 is to help people. The other $520,000,000 is for admin costs
$25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives – “Infrastructure”.
$3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA
$13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121
9,000,000 Misc Senate Expenses pg 134
$100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers pg 162 This of note because the Airlines are going to need billions in loans to keep them afloat. $100,000,000 is chump change
$40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act. This sounds like it’s direct payments for workers. Pg 164
$1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg 163
$25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg 165
$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg 167
$526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg 168 (what are the odds that doesn’t go unused)
$25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg 169
$3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg 172
$5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg 172
$2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg 175
$5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg 175
$2,500,000 Office of Housing
If that’s what Soviet Democrats claim is “infrastructure spending”, no wonder our infrastructure is crumbling.
Republicans count on MAGAts to believe whatever slop they are served—they still believe the Big Lie. So, they tale credot fpr projects they voted against.
if Republicans count on MAGAts, then Dems must count on MAGGOTS who feed on whatever slop they are served by MSNBC andd CNN, and then belch up plagiarized quotes from these sources. Is that you?
From Victor Davis Hanson on X this morning.
“By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”). You can be sure that I will not be voting for the same person that these people will be voting for in November. I posted this comment earlier this morning and I believe it’s worthy of a repost. I do have to admit that there was no mention of an AR-15 as an instrument of assassination but the use of multiple other ways to kill someone is certainly creative. All this so that they can justify killing a baby moments before it is born and castrate a boy before he reaches the age of consent. Are these good people?
Whatever one thinks of Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, his comments about the attempted Trump assassination were intense. Translation by Google is fair but the Spanish he used is powerful verbiage.
Javier Milei
@JMilei
Todo mi apoyo y solidaridad al Presidente y candidato Donald Trump, víctima de un COBARDE intento de asesinato que puso en riesgo su vida y la de cientos de personas.
No sorprende la desesperación de la izquierda internacional que hoy ve cómo su ideología nefasta expira, y está dispuesta a desestabilizar las democracias y promover la violencia para atornillarse al poder. Con pánico a perder en las urnas, recurren al terrorismo para imponer su agenda retrógrada y autoritaria.
Espero la pronta recuperación del Presidente Trump y que las elecciones en los Estados Unidos se realicen de forma justa, pacífica y democrática
https://x.com/JMilei/status/1812277465391472813
Translated from Spanish by Google:
“All my support and solidarity to President and candidate Donald Trump, victim of a COWARDLY assassination attempt that put his life and that of hundreds of people at risk.
The desperation of the international left is not surprising, as today it sees its harmful ideology expire, and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote violence to screw itself into power. In fear of losing at the polls, they resort to terrorism to impose their retrograde and authoritarian agenda.
I hope for the speedy recovery of President Trump and that the elections in the United States are held fairly, peacefully and democratically.”
Ideologies are driving Americans today. Not religion, not belief in God, not the Good Samaritan or the Ten Commandments. America lost her soul decades ago when Americans adopted ideologies (e.g. Left vs Right, Progressive vs Conservative) and ejected God from the public square.
Natchez woman’s social media post on Trump shooting draws national criticism
NATCHEZ — A Natchez woman who works for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, finds herself the center of controversy for a Facebook post she made that seemed to encourage the shooter at the Trump rally Saturday. “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking,” Marsaw posted on her personal Facebook page. Marsaw said she removed the post after being asked to do so by a manager on Thompson’s staff, whom she would not name.
“I got overwhelmed in the moment,” Marsaw said. “I am a diehard Democrat.”
https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2024/07/13/natchez-womans-social-media-post-on-trump-shooting-draws-national-criticism/
Pity she is not a diehard believer in the sanctity of life. But since she does not see people as being made in God’s image, it follows killing people is not a problem.
“No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24
You can tell where someone’s allegiance lies from the organization to which he contributes money. Why? Obviously because it costs him something to contribute that money, which he wouldn’t do unless he believed in that cause. The shooter contributed to Act Blue, a leftist organization. He was also a registered Republican which is meaningless because that costs him nothing. But of course the leftist commenters today are playing that up as if it defines the shooter’s ideology. They never bother to ask themselves why a Republican true believer would want to kill Trump (which of course he wouldn’t), nor do they even attempt to explain that. They operate on a superficial and deceptive level. Don’t believe them.
OldManFromKS,
“Obviously because it costs him something to contribute that money, which he wouldn’t do unless he believed in that cause.”
Quite right.
I donated to Tulsi Gabbard twice and was going to a third time but she dropped out. Why? I believed she would be a good president.
The shooter donated to Act Blue. He was a believer. He had heard all the rhetoric from MSM, and believed it. He knew there would be a real chance he would die. But being a true believer, he choose to make the attempt anyways.
Remember, Estovir, the Democrat Party, and many Democrats don’t believe in the sanctity of life, seeing as how they are now advocating abortion, literally up to the moment of birth. In fact, don’t know if it’s still in play, but at one point, the California assembly was looking at a bill which, if adopted, would allow the termination of an infant’s life a full 28 days after birth.
I’m not in favor of a nationwide total ban on abortion, however, as President Clinton said 30 years ago, abortion should be legal, safe, and RARE.
If we, as Americans, can’t even defend the defenseless, then what good can possibly follow? I submit, none.
Professor Turley?
Something was so off yesterday. To think this young man acted alone and was allowed to shoot before being killed smells badly. The spotter with the binoculars could see the gun and why did the sniper not shoot him. I am a 75 year old woman with high intelligence and can read between the lines. At 15 when JFK was killed I knew one person did not do all the shooting. There should be a thorough investigations but who do we trust anymore.
Anonymous,
My dad, God rest his soul, once admonished me to “trust no one.”
Sadly, this is the goal of the far left. Erode trust in America’s institutions, such that, eventually, when we go into a collective psychotic break, government can swoop in and just fix it all, and we’ll be happy to let them.
Unfortunately, trust, once lost, is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to ever regain.