“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
After years of the legacy media repeating the Democratic Party’s talking points about former President Donald Trump posing an existential threat to democracy, a gunman opened fire in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly assassinating the president.
Naturally, the mainstream media rushed to condemn Republicans.
“Republicans Place Shooting in Trump’s Narrative of Persecution,” declared The New York Times. Yes, the newspaper of record is upset Trump voters believe the fact that Trump got shot is a form of persecution.
The financial publication Barron’s republished a story from a French news source under a headline that tried to put the full blame for America’s violent political language on the GOP: “Heated Rhetoric As Republicans Blame Biden For Trump Shooting.”
Republicans are overheating America’s political rhetoric?? Joe Biden told donors in a call, “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Biden said it was fine for him to use that language, because he didn’t say “cross-hairs.”
Big help, Joe.
The Horn News has documented some of the worst cases—cases that made Senator (and now vice presidential candidate) J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, say that Biden’s campaign “rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
But according to the article, Vance is just “part of an escalating chorus of Republicans who have pinned the blame on Democrats” and helped “heap more fuel onto the fire in a political atmosphere.”
“Heated rhetoric has come from both sides,” stated Georgetown University political science professor Michael Bailey. “And some of them includ(e) Trump.”
For a man who supposedly whips up his idiotic and violent followers to the brink of violence constantly, it seems strange that Donald Trump became the only presidential candidate to be shot in 43 years. But who could ask the media to apply logic?
One of the worst stories came from the far-Left website Common Dreams, which insisted readers stop showing any signs of humanity to Donald Trump, even after he came within millimeters of his violent death.
“Republicans’ Feigned Outrage Must Not Be Allowed To Buoy Trump,” blared the website’s headline.
“Whatever his motives, the rounds (Butler shooter Thomas M.) Crooks fired exploded into an already incendiary political situation, furnishing Trump and his MAGA supporters with further ammunition to attack the Democratic party and, by posing as innocent victims of nefarious enemies, liberal democracy itself,” claimed the article’s author, Jeffrey Isaac, a political science professor at Indiana University.
“It is certain that Trump and the GOP will play this for all it is worth,” wrote a steamed Isaac. “It is essential that everyone who cares about the defense of our weak and enfeebled constitutional democracy refuse to allow the Republican party to pose as victims of tyrannical liberals and as defenders of the peace.”
He got the idea that Republicans are faking their outrage from former Never-Trump Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who tweeted, “People are allowed to be outraged at the political rhetoric, but not both support Trump and feign outrage. His violent rhetoric isn’t even metaphoric.”
So, if you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump, you’re not “allowed” to feel outrage when the other side gins up an intelligence hoax claiming you’re a traitor working with Russian intelligence (when you’re not diddling their hookers), create another one to claim you’re lying about a family laptop, and press phony criminal charges against you for imaginary crimes, all the while saying you’re Hitler and Mussolini’s love child.
People are allowed to be outraged at the political rhetoric, but not both support Trump and feign outrage.
His violent rhetoric isn’t even metaphoric
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) July 14, 2024
In the long run, Donald Trump is right: “They’re not after me; they’re after you. I’m just in the way.”
Not long ago, the entire Left wanted hospitals to deny medical treatment to anyone who questioned whether they should take a certain experimental shot or wear a hole-ridden mask—knowing full well most of those people supported Donald J. Trump.
They’re a party that mocks rural Republicans. It constantly talks about changing demographics. And it practically celebrates the death of the elderly, white people, veterans, police, gun owners, and anyone else who isn’t a party-line Democratic voter.
The Democrats and the media know how to bait their traps perfectly.
First, they invent fake charges that make their political opposition seem like traitors and pawns of the horrible, evil, double-plus ungood Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Then, they accuse anyone who asks for evidence of his guilt a fellow traitor.
Then, they use every opportunity for years to tell your fellow countrymen that you want to overthrow their government, set up a dictatorship, and put them in prison—all the things the Left really wants to do.
To top it off, they pretend they’re innocent when a madman or impressionable individual takes their political propaganda at face value and tries to kill the political figure they spent nine years demonizing.
And worst than taking no responsibility, they blame you for noticing.
Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of Donald Trump should kill the media’s credibility.