If Democrats didn’t believe they’d put Donald Trump in an assassin’s crosshairs the first time, they have no excuse for pleading ignorance now.
Ryan Routh in police custody after Secret Service foiled an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course.put Donald Trump in an assassin’s crosshairs, the suspect who hid in the bushes at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club waiting for his shot at former ex-president — AK-47-style rifled at the ready, serial number filed off — wasn’t some 20-year-old without a political paper trail, like the first would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks.
He even featured in a New York Times story last year highlighting his efforts to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight against Russia in Ukraine.— though the Ukrainians didn’t want him or his dubious recruits — Routh wanted to be a man of action, and he was prepared to kill for a cause. But if the cause of democracy in Ukraine was worth killing for, what about the safety of democracy right here in America?FBI was tipped off in 2019 about suspected Trump gunman Ryan Wesley Routh owning firearm as a felon: officialsYou can’t lose if your opponent is dead — and if democracy itself is in danger, what conclusion can a desperate man of action draw? Instead of moderating their rhetoric, Trump’s critics only doubled down after the first assassination attempt.Hitler's power wasn't taken, it was given. And once he had control he enacted his horrifying, dictatorial agenda.As recently as last week’s presidential debate, Kamala Harris accused Trump of “attacking the foundations of our democracy.” Democrats cut Trump no slack for calling on his supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically” on Jan. 6, 2021, when some of them ran amok and invaded the Capitol.But Trump’s enemies don’t hold themselves to the same standard, when their own apocalyptic language incites a man like Routh to plan political murder. A man with a gun who wants to stop Vladimir Putin might well think slaying Trump would save lives — if, as Democrats and liberals in the media say, Trump is Putin’s stooge and would let him do whatever he wants to Ukraine.The media have been recklessly uncritical of the incendiary characterizations that Trump’s opponents — and many members of the media itself — have employed for years.Listening to the Democrats and watching MSNBC, a terrified man or woman might think the country is on the brink of dictatorship, and if ever there was a time when for pre-emptive violence, it must be now. For Democrats to denounce political violence while leading their supporters to think that freedom is finished if Trump wins isn’t just hypocritical, it’s culpable. Progressives have to find a way to argue against Trump without giving ammunition to the paranoid, self-righteous, and impulsive.On election night, what will the people convinced Trump is a dictator do?It should have happened after the former president almost lost his life to an assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania. But little changed after that horrific incident: Democrats certainly didn’t treat it anything like January 6.Rachel Vindman, sister-in-law of the Democrats’ nominee for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District — and the wife of Alexander Vindman, a key figure in the first impeachment effort against President Trump in 2019 — An audience member, Corey Comperatore, was killed in Butler on July 13, and the GOP nominee came within an inch of death — is this something Democrats like the Vindmans find funny?They act as if Trump’s intemperance excuses greater intemperance on their part. If Trump goes too far — and sometimes he does — the Democrats have a duty not to go farther still, but to pull back.Would-be Trump assassin exploited security hole that Secret Service has known about for years — and the pictures prove itBen Affleck 'could not keep his hands off' Jennifer Lopez at brunch, 'still attracted to one another,' source
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