BY DANIEL JUPP
There have been multiple previous attempts on Donald Trump’s life.
There have been countless threats, some of them from very famous sources. Let’s recall a few of those:
Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters both told Democrats and Antifa to harass Trump administration officials, to get in their faces and make their lives hell.
Bob de Niro told us, again and again, how he wanted to beat the shit out of Trump.
Joy Reed and Robert Reich spent years telling us that Trump is Hitler and that people supporting Trump are Nazis. Whilst the increasingly rabid Left were also being told to ‘punch a Nazi’ and fantasise about killing Trump ‘because he’s a Nazi’ (none of it needs to be true or make sense).
Kathy Griffin held up a severed pretend Trump head.
British rapper Stormzy did the exact same thing.
Madonna said she wanted to blow up the White House, killing Trump.
Johnny Depp mused hopefully about someone assassinating Trump, and how great that would be.
And of course, Joe Biden launched insane spittle-flecked speeches denouncing Trump as evil incarnate. From the office of the President, Biden denounced millions of Trump voters, as well as Trump himself, as subhuman objects of hate.
When previous lunatics plotted to kill Trump, mainstream media pretended that Trump had made it all up.
When the FBI raided Trump, their instructions made it clear that any sign of even moderate physical resistance would allow them to open fire on him or his family or his staff. Again, mainstream media pretended this was all normal.
Just before this assassination attempt, Biden was telling Democrat figures that he was placing a “bullseye” on Trump. This, from the side that calls ‘be peaceful’ and ‘go home’, or even the widely used metaphor ‘we need to fight’ dangerous rhetoric that leads to violence.
When do we get to talk about the effects of spending 8 years deploying hate filled rhetoric against Trump?
When do we get to point the finger at the mainstream media for doing that, and at the Democrat Party for stimulating murder fantasies?
The 20-year-old shooter in this attempt had spent half his life hearing, from mainstream politicians and mainstream media, that Donald Trump deserves to die and that Donald Trump threatens democracy, threatens everything.
It turns out that the shooter was listening.
An inch of difference, and Trump would be dead.
And thousands upon thousands of Democrat voters are lamenting that he’s not. They have been so pumped up with hate by the mainstream media and the Democrat regime that they are openly distraught – not that American politics has reached this point, not that they got us here, but that the attempted murder failed.
For a long time now, many have been saying that the ineluctable logic of 8 years or more of hate poured out by the mainstream media and the total abandonment of all rationality, all moderation, all sense in the reactions of the mainstream to Trump would lead to a moment like this.
Democrats have made clear that Trump does not have basic human rights and that they want him dead.
The Democrats’ ‘mainstream media’ loaded those bullets.
Daniel Jupp is the author of A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilisation, which was published in 2019. He has had previous articles published by Spiked, The Spectator and Politicalite, and is a married father of two from Essex. Daniel’s SubStack is available here.