Winston Churchill once famously said that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
For Donald Trump, the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania could prove politically exhilarating. After rising with a fist pump and a call to fight on, Trump seems to have gone from being a movement to a mythological figure with his supporters. All he needs now is a big blue ox named Babe to return to the campaign trail.
This assassination attempt should also concentrate the minds of everyone on the escalating rhetoric in this campaign, particularly the media in maintaining inflammatory narratives. Yet, the hateful and unhinged language has continued unabated from academics declaring that the assassination attempt was staged to those who complain that the only problem was that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.
For years, Democrats have repeated analogies of Trump to Hitler and his followers to brownshirted neo-Nazis. Indeed, defeating Trump has been compared to stopping Hitler in 1933.
The narrative began as soon as Trump was elected when the press and pundits uniformly and falsely claimed that Trump had praised neo-Nazis and Klansmen in 2017 as “fine people” in Charlottesville.
Watching Trump’s statement at the time, it was clear to most of us that Trump condemned the neo-Nazis and that the statement about “fine people on both sides” was in reference to the debate over the removal of historic statues.
It took six years for Snopes to finally have the courage to do a fact check and declare the common attack to be false.
It did not matter. The press and politicians have hammered away at the notion that Trump is seeking to end democracy and that everyone from gay people to reporters will be “disappeared.”
After the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity, Rachel Maddow went on the air with a hysterical claim that “death squads” had just been green lighted by conservatives. Democratic strategist Jame Carville insists that Trump’s reelection will bring “the end of the Constitution.”
It is all what I call “rage rhetoric” in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” The book explores centuries of rage politics and political violence. This is not our first age of rage but it could well be the most dangerous.
Two years before the assassination attempt, I appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on the expansion of domestic terrorism investigations. Democrats were seeking to pressure the FBI to focus on far-right groups as potential terrorist groups. The use of political views rather than conduct has been used historically to crackdown on groups from socialists to anarchists to feminists.
The narrative that the threat of violence is coming primarily from the Right is demonstrably false but consistently echoed in the media.
We have seen a growing level of leftist violence in the last decade. That includes riots in cities like Portland and Seattle where billions of dollars of damage occurred, hundreds of officers injured, and many citizens killed. In 2020 alone, 25 people were killed in the protests.
The Democrats often raise the Jan. 6th riot and it is important to acknowledge that the damage extended to an attack on our constitutional process. However, the preceding protest around the White House caused more injuries and more property damage. Then President Trump had to be removed to a safe location as Secret Service feared a breach of the White House.
There were a reported 150 officers injured (including at least 49 Park Police officers around the White House) in the Lafayette Park riot. Protesters caused extensive property damage including the torching of a historic structure and the attempted arson of St. John’s Church.
Mass shootings by leftist gunmen have repeatedly occurred but those are treated as one offs while any conservative shooter is part of a pattern of right-wing violence.
Keith Ellison, the Democratic attorney general of Minnesota, mocked the notion of liberal violence. In one tweet, he declared “I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude. Can someone send me an example of a ‘Bernie Bro’ being bad. Also, are we holding all candidates responsible for the behavior of some of their supporters? Waiting to hear.”
Republican Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana replied dryly: “I can think of an example.” Scalise was severely wounded at the 2017 shooting at a congressional baseball game practice by a Sanders supporter.
Ellison was a particularly ironic Democratic politician to repeat this mantra. When he was the Democratic National Committee deputy chair, Ellison praised Antifa, a violent anti-free speech group that regularly attacks conservatives, pro-lifers, and others.
Ellison said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence and its website was banned in Germany.
Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer. When confronted about Antifa’s violence, then House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler denied that the group existed. Likewise, Joe Biden has dismissed objections to Antifa as just “an idea.”
In the meantime, Biden has called Trump and his supporters “enemies of the people.” He recently said that the threat to democracy was so great that debates are no solution: “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
Even after the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the media has failed to see a pattern while stoking the claim of a right-wing violent movement.
In the meantime, Democrats previously filed to strip Secret Service protection from Trump. The former Chair of the J6 Committee and the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee introduced the legislation, called Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED).
The press and pundits continue to tell Americans that Trump and his supporters are going to kill democracy and probably those they love. While most people dismiss the rage rhetoric, there are some who take it as a license to take the most extreme action.
We are still learning about Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who was killed after trying to assassinate Trump. A registered Republican, Crooks gave money to ActBlue to support Democratic candidates.
Yet, we know him all too well. He is likely to be found to be a lonely, unhinged individual who found meaning in an attempted political murder.
Thomas Crooks like Nicholas Roske (who tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh) are the faces that watch from the political shadows. They hear leaders telling them to stop the Nazis before democracy dies . . . and they believe them.
As for Democrats, the anger evident every night on cable networks may reflect a degree of insecurity about becoming the very thing that they are campaigning against. It is time for the party to look around to take stock of its anti-democratic policies.
Democratic secretaries of state have sought to block not just Trump but third-party candidates from ballots to prevent voters from supporting them.
They have called for cleansing ballots of over 120 other Republicans. They have supported censorship, blacklisting, and other attacks on free speech.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have repeatedly asked what we have become in this age of rage. If we embrace groups like Antifa, oppose free speech, and cleanse ballots, we will have little beyond our rage to sustain us.
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.”
Now if he returned to the campaign trail with a sheep herding piglet named Babe that would really get people’s attention.
I don’t know if this has yet been reported here, but when the Secret Service St’unt Cheatle claimed that the SS was only responsible for security the inner perimeter at Butler, and local police were responsible for the outer perimeter, including he building from which Crooks shot, she was apparently either lying through her teeth, or was completely out of the loop and 100% misinformed about the security arrangements (frankly, I’m not certain which would be worse):
Butler Township commissioner said local police had no security detail for Trump rally
https://justthenews.com/government/security/butler-county-township-commissioner-said-local-police-had-no-security-detail
‘Butler Township Commissioner Edward Natali said on social media that
the local police had no security detail for former President Donald
Trump’s rally over the weekend that resulted in an assassination attempt
on the former president.
“I want to say as clearly as can be said, the Butler Township Police
Department (‘BTPD’) had no security detail for this event,” he wrote in a
Facebook post. “There were seven officers all assigned to traffic detail.
Period!! The BTPD was NOT responsible for securing AGR or any other
location.”‘
Most of us are breathing a sigh of relief that Trump survived the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. That was an amateur operation that somehow almost succeeded. But given their ideological equivalence of Trump and Hitler, why would Democrats not make a more professional attempt? The Southern border is wide-open. It would be easy to bring in a professional sniper, let him snipe at Trump, and then whisk him away to another country. Any remaining witnesses can take the 5th.
We should always remember how easily the Clinton adminstration was able to frustrate the investigation into the “Chinagate” fund-raising scandal, in part by helping potential witnesses disappear overseas, or take the 5th.
“With regard to their overall efficacy, investigators are on record as having stated that the Congressional investigations were hamstrung due to lack of co-operation of witnesses. Ninety-four people either refused to be questioned, pled the Fifth Amendment, or left the country altogether.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy#cite_note-yourcampaign-46
Turley says: “After rising with a fist pump and a call to fight on, Trump seems to have gone from being a movement to a mythological figure with his supporters. All he needs now is a big blue ox named Babe to return to the campaign trail.” First of all, Trump said: “fight, fight, fight”–not “fight on”. WHAT was he calling the faithful to “fight” for? To keep him out of prison, to anoint him with the US presidency so he can once again destroy our economy and international relations, for the power and glory of being in a position to bully people and have the unprecedented power set ourt in Project 2025, a looming disaster for reproductive rights, personal freedoms, check on presidential power and world peace? Trump is a phony showman and last Friday’s display was pure theater. It didn’t help him in the polls, either.
Just like Turley’s flub by trying to equate criticism of a physician who allegedly performs unnecessary hysterectomies with Auschwicz butcher Josef Mengele, Turley tries to equate Trump with Winston Churchill. Turley–are you really that ignorant of WW II era history, or are you just engaging in purchased hyperbole? Here is a summary of Churchill from Wikipedia:
“One of the 20th century’s most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and the rest of the Anglosphere. He is generally viewed as a victorious wartime leader, who defended liberal democracy against the spread of fascism.”
Churchill was a patriot served his country. Trump calls our military “suckers and losers”. Churchill was and is respected. Trump is a convicted criminal and international laughingstock. Trunp brags about assaulting women, paid off a porn actress and nude model to hide the truth about his lack of character and falsified business records to cover it up. Trump stole classified documents and lied about returning them and is under multiple criminal indictments.
Here’s Churchill’s record as a British patriot (From Wikipedia):
“Churchill was born in Oxfordshire into the wealthy, aristocratic Spencer family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith’s Liberal government, Churchill was President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers’ social security. As First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli campaign, but after it proved a disaster, was demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigned in November 1915 and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East. After two years out of Parliament, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative government, returning sterling in 1925 to the gold standard, depressing the UK economy.
Out of government during his so-called “wilderness years” in the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for rearmament to counter the threat of militarism in Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In May 1940, he became prime minister, succeeding Neville Chamberlain. Churchill formed a national government and oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945. After the Conservatives’ defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an “iron curtain” of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. Between his terms, he wrote several books recounting his experience during the war. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. He lost the 1950 election but was returned to office in 1951. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, especially Anglo-American relations and preservation of what remained of the British Empire with India now no longer part of it. Domestically, his government completed the development of a nuclear weapon. In declining health, Churchill resigned in 1955, remaining an MP until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral.”
Turley–to WHOM are you pitching the comparison of Trump to Churchill? Trump is a lying phony, misogynist, racist, xenophobe and sociopath. It’s an insult to the Britsh people to mention Trump in the same breath as Winston Churchill.
oh gawd.
(sarcastic eye roll, not sacrilege)
Is it true that you passed your bar exam by copying and pasting from Wikipedia?
That thing called Gigi is not an attorney and never has been.
I pretty much knew that. I just wanted to see what it would say.
It sux to be Gigi these days.
I think i love the thought of it suffering thru 4 more years of Trump than my own selfish gains.
Gigi is losing what is left of it’s Birthing Person police state fascist Soviet Democrat mind: two brain cells down to one.
WHAT was he calling the faithful to “fight” for? To keep him out of prison
Happy to answer that question, Birthing Person Gigi:
To put an end to Obama’s Third Term and prevent Obama’s Fourth term where tens of millions of Guest Democrat Voters i.e. Illegal Aliens were imported into America as the only hope of survival for Soviet Democrat communism.
To put an end to Pedo Joe Biden molesting other peoples children in public, in the Oval Office.
To put an end to Pedo Joe Biden forcing school boards to allow Tranny male rapists from showering with parents daughters as had pedophile Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Showers with his teenage daughter Ashley, turning her into both a drug addict, sex pervert, and pimping for her drug addict sex pervert brother.
Hopefully, to indict and put on trial Bribery Joe Biden, The First Felon Crackhead Son, everyone else culpable in the years that Biden White House Crime LLC sold America to the Chicoms and Russia. Biden’s own Special Counsel said they confiscated evidence from 40 YEARS of stealing classified information and giving it to his son for their ChiCom government customers to look at. If Merrick Garland won’t prosecute 40 years of Biden crime, because he’s busily kissing Biden ass, then the next Attorney General whose lips aren’t surgically attached to Biden’s ass (and the other side) will.
To put an end to Biden appeasing the Anti-Semitic Genocidal Socialist Squad Sisters in the House who lead the Soviet Democrats’ New Hitler Youth Movement by withholding weapons and permission for Israel to crush the Hamas terrorists that they support.
And to put an end to any chance Pedo Joe Biden will yet again desert Americans to die as he did in Baghdad and then again in Afghanistan.
Want the full, very long list?
Turley tries to equate Trump with Winston Churchill. Turley–are you really that ignorant of WW II era history, or are you just engaging in purchased hyperbole?
Are you simply hired to engage in regurgitating Soviet Democrat lies? Doing so while ignoring Bribery Biden’s history of incompetence, fraud, lies, malfeasance, incompetence, and getting witless Soviet Democrat Birthing Persons such as yourself to ignore the history of Biden’s own Vice President calling him both a RAPIST and a RACIST?
Gigi,
I would suggest that you read Churchill – he has written MANY books.
Wikipedia is NOT the place to gauge who one of the greatest western leaders EVER actually was.
You will absolutely Hate him – far worse than you hate Trump.
Is Trump Churchill ? No one is Churchill.
While Americans and Russians were pretending Hilter was no threat – Churchill was Fighting ACTUAL Fascism – which BTW is a form of Socialism.
Inarguably the most fascist country in the world today is China,
But the US and democrats are headed that way.
Fascism is a form of socialism where the government does not own the means of production but through regulation, threats and inducements is controlls the means of production.
PRECISELY as democrats do today.
Big Blue Ox. Ha-Ha. Not very funny. You are way behind the curve, telling us what we already know. You are simply selling your book. Events seem to be moving faster than you are able to keep up. You are insulting our intelligence. If you don’t have any special insights to report, say nothing until you do.
The bandaged ear has been all the rage for the illiberals at MSNBC and the New York Times. For them, it represents only a “prop”, a “spectacle”, “showmanship”, a “useful political quest”, “overextending his effort to mine the injury for sympathy votes”, a “blank rectangle on which the crowd could read what it wished”, the “most potent placard” in the convention hall, an “image for political mobilization.”
Perhaps they think it would have been better for them (assuming they would have been able to stomach it) had there been no bandage so that all could see upfront just how gruesome and grotesque wounds from 5.56×45mm ammunition can be. Now that would have been the ultimate spectacle for securing the sympathy vote.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/07/16/USAT/74420674007-20240716-t-033022-z-367103416-rc-22-w-8-a-23-tgh-rtrmadp-3-usaelectionrepublicansconvention.JPG?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
See also:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/star-wars-actor-mark-hamill-roasted-mocking-trumps-ludicrously-oversized-ear-bandage?dicbo=v2-Mhbnx3t&intcmp=fn_article_mobileweb_bc_ob_more_from
There are some good responses to Hamill’s tweet that would also apply to MSNBC and so on. One response was from a nurse or doctor who pointed out that Trump’s bandage was less conspicuous than the usual dress consisting of an around-the-head bandage needed to apply sufficient pressure.
Show us his doctors PROOF that Joe Biden is not SENILE. Or has Parkinsons? Or both?
What drugs are they pumping Biden up with on a regular basis?
Where are his doctors reports? When will the Biden White House doctor take the Press Room podium and stand there answering every single question until the press is finished asking? Including about the doctor’s business dealins with the Biden Crime family?
We’ll wait.
I find it difficult to understand why there is so much discussion about Turley’s party affiliation. His articles and public comments on television (recorded for all on YouTube) are the main thing. They reach a large audience. His party affiliation doesn’t even determine how he will vote, and if it did it’s still only one vote. It seems a waste of energy to expend time and effort over something as inconsequential as his party of registration.
oldmanfromkansas posted: I find it difficult to understand why there is so much discussion about Turley’s party affiliation.
For myself, what I do point out from time to time his abject willful blindness: for years he’s apparently been unable to believe his lying eyes.
For example, we’ve had about three and a half years of watching the virulent police state fascism of Merrick Garland, who the good professor tells us he admired and respected. Through almost that entire time what Mr. Turley first started with was “but he means well”. He still hasn’t got to the stage where he’s willing to state the obvious: Merrick Garland is a police state fascist who serves Biden as Lavarentiy Beria served Stalin.
Garland hasn’t just gone full on police state fascist on Trump. He’s launched the FBI at parents protesting school boards putting Tranny male rapists in their little girl’s change rooms.
He’s launched the FBI at an anti-abortion father who protected his son from a violent Planned Parenthood activist, despite multiple agencies saying that father committed no crimes.
He’s committed the FBI and his prosecutors to track down every J6 granny who dared to take a selfie on the forbidden Senate lawn – but has yet to launch the FBI and his prosecutors against the Soviet Democrats’ street thugs in Antifa and Black Liars And Marxists who attempted to storm the White House six months earlier to gain entry to slaughter Trump. Not a single one of them is sharing a cell with the J6 trespassers.
The only thing missing from Merrick Garland’s police state fascism is his victims getting a bullet in the back of the head from Merrick Garland himself, as Lavarentiy Beria did with his victims in the basement beneath their cells.
I wonder how much further Merrick Garland would have to go before Professor Turley could bring himself to say “Okay, that kind of looks like police state fascism”.
I agree Garland is evil. I also agree with much of Turley’s analysis (other than when he engages a false equivalency or assumes the devil means well). His party affiliation is admittedly in tension with 95% of what he writes, but it’s what he writes that I care about.
Let me get this straight, the assassin was tagged as suspicious some 30 minutes before the trigger pull, there were rally goers yelling, and pointing in the direction of the assassin, police had been notified and had encountered the assassin on the sloped roof (speaking of slope, what is the slope maybe at best 2/12, watch yourself you may slip and fall off the roof—utter nonsense).There were two counter snipers within viewing of the assassins roof location and direct viewing of the rally goers causing a ruckus and pointing in the direction of the assassin. There were supposed Secret Service Agents under the assassin within the slopped building. Yet the assassin could take his position, secure his body, take aim and fire before the counter snipers could locate and returned fire. If this is the sequence of events that occurred, it’s either a model of the Peter Principle or some nefarious plot to take out President Trump.
I wonder if Crooks was shot to protect President Trump or shot to protect the Biden cabal?
Life long Democrat? Wow! Will you be born again now? It seems like your Party are a bunch of insane leftists.
The Democratic Party has moved back to their Jim Crow days. Let’s take a look at their issues and put them in a true light. Gun control is a Jim Crow law. Read Ida Wells and her thoughts on this. Abortion, founded by racist Margaret Sanger, is about the eradication of blacks. She said it herself. Education, under the teacher’s unions, have segregated the schools. City students are told where they will attend school. Unions have blocked school choice and voucher programs initiatives that enable parents to make the decision. The school to prison pipeline begins with the teachers, who fail their students and force them into a life on the street. Democrats wrap them up with lies that the media can tout.
“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.
_________________________________________________________
There is no excuse for that roof in Butler not being occupied by SS, FBI, State, or Municipal officers.
How was Crooks able to enter the property proximate to a former president’s rally with a rifle and climb a tall building?
How did Crooks make the calculation that he could ever possibly succeed without that building being cleared for him?
Then why are you still a Democrat?
Jonathan: Now one would expect that DJT would use the failed attempt on his life to grift off his MAGA supporters You would be wrong! Even horrific events like last Saturday are not off limits for DJT’s attempts to make money.
Today DJT announced he is now hawking $299 Assassination Attempt Edition Sneakers–similar to the “golden sneakers” scam. The new sneakers have DJT’s “iconic” image just after the shooting, with his upraised fist and the words “Fight, Fight, Fight” on each pair.
If you go to the “Trump Sneakers” website it says: “With only 5,000 pairs available, each one is a true collector’s item. Show your support and patriotic pride with these sneakers, capturing a defining moment in history”. The offer also includes the note: “Bonus 10. Randomly autographed” by DJT.
Talk about unseemly! Folks, I can’t make up this insane stuff. Can one ever imagine that if Biden had been the intended target he would use the opportunity to sell sneakers? Never would happen! But you and Winston Churchill are right about one thing. DJT never misses an “exhilarating” opportunity to scam his supporters!
New poll finds 65% of Democrats want Biden to withdraw from presidential race
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/new-poll-finds-65-democrats-want-biden-withdraw-presidential-race
Adam Schiff wants Biden out of the race: ‘Pass the torch’
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/adam-schiff-wants-biden-out-pass-torch
Biden read note with staffer’s critique aloud on call with Dems: ‘You are sounding defensive’
“Stay positive, you are sounding defensive,” Biden said on the call, seemingly reading directly from his staffer’s short missive.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/biden-read-note-from-staffer-aloud-on-call-with-progressive-dems/
LOL!
Yet another Ron Burgundy moment?
It’s a win-win. Supporters donate to the campaign and get something special in return. What’s wrong with that?
Can anyone ever imagine that Biden would be clever enough to sell sneakers? No, he’s too stupid and incompetent to come up with something clever that his supporters would enjoy having in exchange for donating.
Can anyone ever imagine that Biden would be the president who refuses to give up power?
That is what he accuses Trump of planning to do. It is Biden clinging to power — fighting with all his might against the coup being waged by his own party to get rid of him – with coordinated help from the Democrats’ own Propaganda presstitutes.
Joe Biden is a weak leader, flailing about, clinging to power, trying to survive a coup from inside his own party. So what does he do? He focuses on destroying the Supreme Court. In addition to destroying our “justice” system with his nakedly political lawfare. In addition to destroying our rule of law, our Constitution, and everything else he can destroy as he desperately clings to his power.
Biden refuses to do the Right Thing for the good of his own party and the good of the country. Demented Biden is going to cling to his power until he burns it all down. Yet the fakestreammedia and Democrat party continue their lies insisting that it is all being done in the name of: “saving democracy.”
Can anyone ever imagine that Biden would be clever enough to sell sneakers?
How about: can anyone ever imagine that Bribery Biden or Dennis ‘Baghdad Bob’ McIntyre would be clever enough to sell a Cheap Fake Trump Website in order to raise money?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/16/bidens-bogus-trump-website-spews-election-lies-mis/
While Merrick Garland was busily seizing websites as being “Russian election misinformation” (like the Biden Bribery Laptop, apparently), AG Garland left Bribery Biden’s fake Trump website untouched and still running…
The difference between Trump and Biden:
Trump, I will sell you something in return for your money. You have free will to buy or not buy what I am selling. Capitalism.
Biden, I demand you to send me money, I will give you nothing in return except my contempt for you little people, enrich my family, get re-elected, enact policies that will hurt you more. Socialism.
Who is the bigger scammer?
Hi Dennis: I expected Trump to grift off of whatever that was on Friday, just like he grifts off of everything else. Until there is a report that it was a bullet that allegedly grazed Trump and that the bullet is tied to Crooks’s AR-15 and an interview with a physician who confirms there was an actual injury requiring treatment, I remain skeptical. The concern about the shoes and the lip-biting and fist pumping are just too pat. And, who says that Trump didn’t get hit with something else other than a bullet? It appears to have been staged.
oh gawd.
Yes Mary Jones. It appears to be as fake as Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Tell that to over 60 courts that threw out Trump’s challenges to Biden’s victory for lack of evidence. Tell that to Mike Pence, who knows Trump lost. Tell that to the fake electors who are charged with felonies for falsely claiming Trump won in Electoral College documents. Tell that to the 50 states that certified Biden’s victory.
What do you have in the way of proof? Zilch. You prefer to believe lies— like Trump and Vance give a sh!t about working people, that Vance isn’t in the pocket of tech billionaires and crypto currency investors and sellers who don’t want to pay a fair share of taxes and don’t want regulation. Keep living in fantasy land. Vance is in the pocket of Peter Keel.
We’ll assume Joe Biden is a dangerously demented fool, lying about his cognitive health, and unable to function without being pumped up with performance enhancing drugs on a daily basis –until HIS White House doctor shows up at the Press Room podium and stands there answering every question.
We’ll wait. They won’t do it because Biden’s doc would have to lie like a mutha to the press.
Mary Jones is Gigi. Cowardly little twat. This Login avatar has been used by gigi before. Also a dead giveaway that this brain dead moron doesnt know what happened Friday.
It must really suck to be Gigi right now.
Mary Jones (not her real name) tried this in support of Baghdad Bob McIntyre:
Hi Dennis: It appears to have been staged.
The death of the man carried from the bleachers with his brains blown all over the surrounding spectators, leaving his wife a widow and his children without a husband appears to have also been staged as well. The two men who were taken to hospital in critical condition from bullet wounds they suffered while in the path of fire behind Trump is clearly also staged.
Mary: this is why the term “Marxist Useful Idiot” has survived through decades of communism and failed communist leaders like Biden.
Dennis McIntyre, Cheap Fake American, keeps stealing space on Turley’s blog to use as his own for his off topic support for Pedo Joe Biden:
Jonathan: Now one would expect that DJT would use the failed attempt on his life to grift off his MAGA supporters
Jonathan: in comparison Clinton, Bolshevik Barack, Pedo Joe Biden and the DNC illegally spent SIX MILLION to have one of Putin’s stooges write their “Russia Dossier”.
These free market Soviet Democrat communist grifters then “leaked” their “investigation” of the dossier they wrote to raise TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars in campaign contributions from their gullible Marxist Useful Idiot grifters.
Folks, I can’t make up this insane stuff.
Can an insane Cheap Fake American like you make up an insane Cheap Fake Trump website:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/16/bidens-bogus-trump-website-spews-election-lies-mis/
Baghdad Bob McIntyre, you pretty much make up EVERYTHING you post here. You’re either channeling what Bribery Biden, The Big Guy, does onto Trump – or lying to us at the same time you’re desperately pleading with us not to believe our lying eyes that are watching your grifting, lying lips.
What are the damages and reparations for Snopes’ egregious lies and fraud?
I prefer recompense for the full amount of all Snopes’ assets, liquid and non-liquid, and Drawing and Quartering for promulgating lies and disinformation and engaging in treason against essential America.
One who comments here, along with few others who might agree, think it “bizarre” that Jonathan Turley, as a “lifelong democrat”, would be “attacking the Dems” and has “turned against” the Democratic Party. The fact of the matter cannot be more different. He neither attacks nor has he forsaken his party. Rather, as a “lifelong democrat”, Jonathan Turley demonstrates time and again that he has not turned against the old and once venerable Democratic Party he joined years ago, but rather that he is one who stands firm with those who remain its conscience.
A Trump/Vance administration poses a two-pronged existential threat to…the administrative state and the Democratic party. It will come from the revealed truth of what his administration actually does for this country. It will further expose the reality of the Blob’s threat to this country and prove to the American people once and for all that the Democratic party IS exactly the threat to this country they’ve accused others of being.
If that happens, the Democratic party as we know it will be done for a generation.
Trump/Vance administration poses a two-pronged existential threat to…
…conservatives
The GOP-Conservative Breakup Is Officially Complete
Donald Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate closes the book on a possible reuniting of conservatives with the Republican Party
….cements MAGA populism and anti-liberalism as fundamental parts of the Republican platform that will likely persist long after Trump himself is gone from the political scene. For more traditional GOPers that have felt bereft of a political home for some time now, it is less likely than ever that they’ll be able to come back to the party of Ronald Reagan.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/the-gop-conservative-breakup-is-officially
IMHO, the dividing of Americans based on ideologies is unAmerican
Estovir,
I have said in the past, when a party, any of them, no longer represents it’s voters, it is the voters right to vote for someone or party who does.
I think that is Trump to a lot of conservatives who feel the establishment Republican party, the Mitch McConnels, do not represent them. That is what makes Trump so popular.
And by picking Vance, more so.
The old GOP just might be dying. I think that is a good thing.
I met Newt Gingrich…twice. It was by the grace of God I did not spit on him likely bc both times it was at church: first time at Richmond Cathedral where his wife sang with her visiting church choir, second time at the DC Catholic Basilica. I sat right behind him in DC and I wanted to cuss him out. I refrained. I only wish I had known his ex-wife with breast cancer when he served her divorce papers in her hospital.
There are too many Republicans to mention post-Reagan that have been millstones made of titanium. Trump wasnt even on my radar in those days. So for people, “conservatives”, to excoriate Jonathan Turley for being a Democrat is a bit much. Republicans have become the party of relativists, divorcees, self-centeredness, gluttony, pride, wrath, and the furthest thing of a Good Samaritan one can possibly be.
Society has collapsed not because of Democrats but because of “conservatives” being such infidels to natural law, intellectual honesty, authentic family values, living by example. It was bad enough when MTG rebuked Catholics and then in the same breath filed for divorce. But when Lauren Boebert, who is IMO extremely attractive, was caught in the cinema, high as a kite, feeling her date up while he caressed her breasts, or maybe it was Matt Gaetz with his cocaine prostitutes parties, or on the other hand there was the pig of pigs, Rush Limbaugh who became saintly in the eyes of many, that I knew there wasnt enough anti-nauseous medication to keep me from throwing up. I was never a Republican because of President George HW Bush, President George W. Bush, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Rush Limbaugh, and so many poor excuses of men, or should I say “vermin”, that I knew I would never join the company of such hypocrites. That Democrats have followed the same trajectory in selling their souls to the Devil, makes both parties a dead end for honor, virtue, integrity and truth
Both parties are immoral, unsightly and a disgrace to American’s once majestic history of imperfect men who at least had humility, honor and knew their place in the universe. Biden will hopefully lose. If Trump wins, we will be done. Better if both Biden and Trump remove themselves from running, and let others lead.
Buy chickens, PM and ammo
😉
Estovir,
Great comment, I could not agree more.
Dont forget, along with the chickens, PMs and ammo, invest in your own personal well being!
Upstate, I met Gingrich more than once. I was not interested in his personal life, only his ideas on running our government. He was a star. His personal life is not flattering, nor do I agree with it, but why should that be my business if he lives within the law?
Today, I am a Republican. I am married and would never stray. Gingrich’s lifestyle is different from mine and reflects the attitude of too many politicians, Democrats and Republicans. All one has to do is remember JFK’s exploits. Money, power and sex seem to ride side by side. Most of the Presidents in my lifetime broke their marital vows.
“along with the chickens, PMs and ammo, invest in your own personal well being!” and vote for Trump.
Money, power and sex seem to ride side by side.
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, at least in my lifetime, seemed like honorable men. At the state level, my father was friends with Democrat Bob Graham, the Governor of FL, former mayor of Miami Lakes. he used to come to our home and we to his. We werent’ close friends as families but still he was an honorable man. there are others.
Estovir, the JFK administration ended the idea that Catholicism and divorce prevented one from being President. You mentioned a few more names, so let me mention FDR. He had an extramarital affair, as did Dwight Eisenhower.
I am looking for a leader. The Old Testament says, “You shall judge your fellow with righteousness.” Knowing that we seldom have all the facts and that no one is pure, we should restrain our judgment of others. That is difficult, but we have to accept that leadership can lead to some bad qualities.
We can look again to the Bible. What differentiated Aaron from Moses? You might remember there was far more weeping at the death of Aaron than Moses. Moses was the leader. (More can be found in the Talmud, specifically Pirkeit Avot, Ethics of the Fathers.)
And here i thought it was the pedophile priests who gave conservatives a bad name.
An anonymous Soviet Democrat groomer tried this in defense of the Pedophile Teachers’ Unions LLC that partner with the Soviet Democrats and their groomer/rapists:
And here i thought it was the pedophile priests who gave conservatives a bad name.
We know Soviet Democrats and their groomers and pedophiles celebrate that they’re the party that identifies with sexually assaulting school children!
“Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by child predators in authority in what is the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history. Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual assault by Teachers’ Union members is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
One needs to ask oneself why this massive ongoing scandal of child rape by unionized teachers is being covered up by the DNC who on the one hand budget hundreds of millions of dollars to teachers unions, and in return the unions kick back tens of millions of dollars to the DNC and their candidates.”
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/07/10/forbidden_fruit_and_the_classroom_the_huge_american_sex-abuse_scandal_that_educators_scandalously_hush_up_1042969.html?mc_cid=0d79030f05&mc_eid=febb5a4d8f
If any party is identified with pedophelia, it is the Soviet Democrats and their Soviet Democrat presidents who give hundreds of millions of dollars to those groomer/rapist teachers’ unions that protect their rapist teachers and in return the teachers kick back tens of millions of dollars to Soviet Democrat presidents and candidates as “political contributions”.
Or if you prefer, the Soviet Democrat presidents who had serial rapist and pedophile Harvey Weinstein on the White House open door guest list for all eight years they were in office. Or President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers Biden, The White House Kiddy Fondler In Chief.
Soviet Democrats and their anonymous cowards: if they didn’t channel, gaslight, and lie… they’d have nothing to campaign on.
A new version of Estovir apparently has developed the best tunnel vision ever:
Society has collapsed not because of Democrats but because of “conservatives” being such infidels to natural law, intellectual honesty, authentic family values, living by example.
Estovir The Second, you felt the authentic family values and living by example of Democrats wasn’t even worth mention in your long list of Republican horrors?
The Clintons and then the Obamas, each giving us eight years of their having Harvey Weinstein on their open door policy White House guest list?
Allowing him ready access to their daughters while their Secret Service close protection detail warned them that their besty Harv was a serial rapist and pedophile. Culminating in Professor Barack leading by example by putting one of his daughters UNDER Harvey Weinstein… you know, as an intern? Clinton and the number of women who came forward to say he raped or sexually assaulted them in the White House?
Or maybe President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers Biden. The authentic family values which resulted in a son and a daughter both being felons, both being drug addicts, both being racists like Daddy, and both being sexual perverts – where the sister happily served as pimp to get young underage whores for her older brother?
Rush Limbaugh was eminently worthy of making your list of horribles leading to the collapse of the civil society – but no way the raping and perversion of authentic family values provided by the Clintons and Bidens? Professor “teachable moment” Obama with his convicted domestic terrorist felons and Harvey Weinstein standing at his side is safely off your list?
Estovir, is that really you? Are you suddenly suffering a brief moment of Dennis McIntyre tunnel vision channeling and gaslighting?
Upstate, I wholeheartedly agree with your take. This ticket is redefining what it means to be Republican. RINO has been known as a negative label. I believe it will now define this Trump/Vance (Reagan) conservative movement, until the old guard, establishment, bureaucratic Republicans become the minority within the party.
OLLY,
Thank you.
I think that is why we have seen so much of the old establishment Republicans as Never Trumpers. He is, and his base is a threat to their hold on power. Sure, they were and to a degree now, in a panic as Trump has a base they cannot come close to, they have become irrelevant. They have been in power too long and need to go.
Same thing could be said about the Democrats.
“IMHO, the dividing of Americans based on ideologies is unAmerican”
It was not intended, but a two-party system evolved early in our history. We have to accept that. In some states, to vote in a primary, one has to be registered to that party. That doesn’t mean a party member ascribes to all its policies. As a rule, Democrats mostly follow the lead of the party. I don’t know if that is the same for the Republican Party because Republicans mainly consist of everyone not a Democrat, which is not as accurate in the Democrat Party. That means in the Republican Party, there are Libertarians, Classical Liberals, conservatives, etc.
I need help figuring out the meaning of your statement. Today, I am a Republican. Earlier in my life, I was a Democrat. Sometimes, I registered as an Independent, whatever that means.
Party registration is not an ideology. I am considered classical liberal (or by some Libertarian). Why is it unAmerican for a person to recognize where my interests lie?
Estovir posted this quote:
For more traditional GOPers that have felt bereft of a political home for some time now, it is less likely than ever that they’ll be able to come back to the party of Ronald Reagan.
Division through lies; not ideology.
Trump in substance as president is a moderate in office and much more like Ronald Reagan than any Bush or full on, flat out RINO like McConnell, Romney or Murkowski.
Who are these thug life writers at this magazine, and what do they call a ‘traditional GOPers’?
Liz Cheney, Adam Kitzenger, Obama’s favorite Republican senator, John McCain?
And when did the traditional socialist lite Democrats boot out their moderates to become full on police state fascist Soviet Democrats?
The media recoiled about 24 hours, then came back with double venom.
It should be obvious now that Crooks was acting with the full encouragement of the dem Marxist industrial complex.
Great article and so spot on! But I have a question…why has the media reported that the shooter was Thomas Cooke when the Internet and social media has posted that it was Mark Violet, a Antifa member? Even the FBI stated that the shots were fired 488 ft away, could the shooter have been in the water tower and there were another person involved? Even Mark posted … you got the wrong guy! We need someone besides the government to investigate this shooting.
Let’s compare J6 and Democrat violence:
2011. DEMOCRAT
Insurrection and
5 DAY occupation
of Wisconsin
Capitol. WITH GUNS
6/18/16. DEMOCRAT
attempt to shoot
Candidate Trump
In Las Vegas. WITH GUN
1/20/17. DEMOCRATS riot
and looting in DC. WITH GUNS
6/14/17. DEMOCRAT
shooting of
Republican
Baseball practice. WITH GUNS
Summer, 2020. DEMOCRATS
Riot, burn & loot
All over the USA. WITH GUNS
January 6, 2021. REPUBLICANS
Riot. WITH~ Baseball
Bats !!!! ~
June 8, 2022. DEMOCRAT
Attempt to
Assassinate
Justice
Kavanaugh &
2 other Justices
WITH GUNS
July 13, 2024. DEMOCRAT
Donor attempts to
Assassinate
Trump. WITH GUNS
Compared withJ6???
Let’s speak the truth for once–OK? January 6th was the product of THE BIG LIE–from a LOSER with a massive ego who has managed to delude his followers into believing his lies–the biggest one being that he really won, when, in fact, he LOST. All the audits, recounts and court cases prove this. The attack came after he couldn’t bully or litigate his way to stay in office after getting defeated. He sat by for over 3 hours while his pathetic followers hunted for the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, intent on killing them.
There are absoluteldy NO facts supporting your claim that any of the other incidents you list were done by DEMOCRATS–especially NOT the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party did not lie to people or incite them to attack the Capitol or any one else. And, Crooks was a registered Republican. He donated $15 3 years ago-that does not make him a Democrat. The protests over the murder of George Floyd were not orchestrated by Democrats or the Democratic Party, and were not endorsed by the Democratic Party–they were the result of decades of pent up frustration over white police officers gunning down unarmed black men and suffering no repercussions.
Lies repeated often enough become accepted ‘truth’ in the mainstream.
This is the Democrat Left’s playbook: LIE. Then lie some more. Spread propaganda.
Mr. Crooks being a registered Republican is a little too ‘on the nose’.
This was a Hit on Trump and they failed.
Now the government is in coverup mode.
The people clinging to power right now are truly EVIL.
Make no mistake, Joe Biden is neither decent, nor honest. He is evil.
“while his pathetic followers hunted for the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, intent on killing them.”
With what? Hang them in the gallows out on the lawn that the Feds set up? Or blow them up with the pipe bomb outside DNC headquarters that the Feds planted? Or maybe one of the hundreds of Feds instigating the riot while dressed up as Trump supporters would beat them to death with a stick? Do you know what entrapment is?
No one believes the lies any longer. It was a setup and then a coverup. Get Pelosi under oath.
MAGA media makes things up and people llike you believe it. Tell me–has any forensic examination come up with a bullet that allegedly grazed Trump? Has any forensic examination tied any kind of bullet with Crooks’s assault rifle? MAGAts at the Capitol did have a noose and were shouting “Hang Pence”–and why? WHY did they want to kill him? Because he refused to be bullied into fixing the vote for Trump–he did the hononrable thing–and, in MAGAsphere, that means you have to die. And WHY did Trump lie to his followers about winning the election–when he took the victory lap at 2:00 a.m., he was already behind in the vote count and the mail and absentee ballots hadn’t been counted yet. WHY did he lie–because he is a LOSER with malignant narcissism–he can never be wrong. Do you even begin to understand how un-democratic this is, and how consistent it is with Hitler and Putin–unabashed murderers?
Where’s the proof that the “Feds” planted a pipe bomb or were in the crowd, along with the Neo-Nazis on January 6th? Cite me some testimony or something–or, just admit that you heard this sh*t on MAGA media and you choose to believe it.
Stfu gigi. Yes they have the bullet and yes it cam from crooks gun.
We know u still think the pee tape is real but jeez there were eye witnesses you idiot. Including the media you love so much
Sux to be you. You’ve had a rough 4 weeks. Life doesnt get better for you any time soon.
A cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat defended their TRUMP SERIAL BIG LIES with this:
Let’s speak the truth for once–OK? January 6th was the product of THE BIG LIE–from a LOSER with a massive ego
You aren’t telling the truth as you claim you are – it’s like listening to Bribery Biden going on scripted interviews to tell Marxist Useful Idiot supporters and online apparatchiks “I know how to tell the truth!”
That’s the best you have to respond to somebody comparing the J6 riot that happened to your entire 2020 Election Season Of Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Pillaging, Looting, Arson And Murder?
Was the 2020 Election Season Of Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Pillaging, Looting, Arson And Murder the product of EIGHT YEARS OF SERIAL LIES about Trump and Republicans that came out of the mouths of Bolshevik Barack and his sidekick, Bribery Biden, The Big Guy.
If your claim is that J6 is because of what Trump said, then Bolshevik Barack and Bribery Biden’s lies are responsible for every single hate and violence filled riot since Bolshevik Barack’s Ferguson Black Liars & Marxists riots long before Trump to today with Bribery Biden’s street thugs attacking Christian celebrations yesterday.
I’ll make that trade of responsibility to lay at Trump’s door if you’re willing to assign the same blame to Bolshevik Barack and Bribery Biden.
So… want to trade?
“mostly peaceful”–tell that to the family of Ashli Babbitt, who died as a direct and proximate result of Trump lying to her. Tell that to the GSO that had to shell out millions to repair windows and doors that were smashed, who had to pay to clean up human excrement from the walls and floors of the Capitol, replace computers and other items, and repair the other damage done to our symbol of democracy. Each of the J6 insurrectionists who have testified all said they went to the Capitol because Trump told them to do so–he LIED to them about losing and told them to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”. They believed him, and that is truly frightening. Trump LOST, just like polls predicted he would.
Poor Gigi. Next 4 years are gonna suck for you.
“Lady MacBiden”, my essay on the possibility that Jill Biden needs to be investigated.” @naomirwolf
https://open.substack.com/pub/naomiwolf/p/lady-macbiden?r=gsrnj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
HAUL THESE ASSES IN AND GET THEM UNDER OATH NOW.
Gaslighting Gigi freaked!:
“mostly peaceful”–tell that to the family of Ashli Babbitt, who died as a direct and proximate result of Trump lying to her.
Ashli Babbitt was an American veteran MURDERED at point blank range by a racist black police officer twice her size while she climbed unarmed through a broken window.
Murdered while unable to be capable at the moment of having the potential to inflict grievous or lethal harm.
Murdered at point blank range within arms’ reach of both that murderer and the Tac Team standing right behind her who could have simply grabbed and cuffed her.
What’s lucky for that murderer is not only was Commissar Pelosi calling the shots, but also that the bullet that murdered Babbitt didn’t hit one of the Tac Team members standing right behind her. There was no investigation of the shooting – Soviet Democrat liars (like you) covered it up by claiming that five police officers were murdered that day.
You STILL lie that police officers were killed that day.
What’s equally evident is that just six months earlier, June 1st, your fellow Soviet Democrat street thugs mounted a day long assault on the White House to breach the fence and get inside the White House to slaughter Trump and his family. Throughout this, not a single Secret Service or Capitol Police officer shot a single one of the Soviet Democrat insurrectionists assaulting the White House while they were throwing Molotov Cocktails, frozen bottles of urine, etc at those officers – wounding over 50 who were hospitalized with their wounds.
Not a single one of those June 1st insurrectionists attempting to murder law enforcement officers with Molotov Cocktails has ever been arrested by the FBI hunting down every single granny who dared to take a selfie on the lawn in front of Congress. Just as there was no investigation of Ashli Babbitt’s murder.
And the words “mostly peaceful” were not coined by me. They were created by your Marxist Mainstream Media. They were created by CNN, attempting to downplay your 2020 Election Season Insurrection of Rioting, Pillaging, Looting, Arson And Murder.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/
An insurrection that left more than 30 murdered, including police officers. More damage than Hurricane Katrina. Over 540 riots.
Federal buildings and police stations torched. Over 1,500 officers requiring hospitalization from wounds they received from Soviet Democrat street thug insurrectionists.
Entire squares of cities occupied by force of arms by Soviet Democrat insurrectionists from Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists. Patrolled by Soviet Democrat insurrectionists armed with Evil Baby Killer Assault Rifle 15s.
BBBBUUUUTTTT….. MUH TRUMP!!!!!!
This anonymous is Gigi who all of a sudden is too cowardly to sign her rants every time.
The FBI cracked the shooter’s phone in less than 40 minutes and no information is forthcoming, AND, the shooter is the only 20-year-old in the world without an internet presence. Nothing to see here, folks!