After Michael Barbaro and Peter Baker’s series of public remarks about Donald Trump that could lead to further violence against the previous president, the FBI should think about stopping by their properties.
The national media press have paused not for a minute in blaming the former leader for the intended assault, which has taken place in just two days since Trump’s second attempt on his life, which has barely escaped detection. Barbaro and Baker went further on Tuesday’s episode of the” The Everyday” New York Times podcast, asserting that almost all potential political violence, despite of a potential victim’s group or ideological associations, is because of Trump.
On the program, Barbaro asked “if the United States has now officially entered a new era of political murder with Donald Trump at its middle.” To answer that question was Baker, who had easily just written an essay headlined,” Trump, Outrage and the Modern Era of Political Violence”.
Without fear, Baker quickly pivoted to the Springfield, Ohio, animal-eating migrants discussion that Trump’s strategy has emphasized and business media have furiously insisted is not true, despite on-record, eyewitness testimony confirming it. He claimed that the former senator just last week claimed that these immigrants are consuming people’s puppy dogs and cats. ” No true, no proof of that”.
There is actually a recorded visit to local law enforcement, since corroborated by additional media outlets, of a man who says he’s watching Haitian migrants walk around with dead birds, plus additional evidence. Baker went on to say that Trump’s campaign speech about the workers, who have also overcome local people resources,” seems to have provoked some sort of effect”.
The “reaction” Baker referenced was a series of hoax bomb threats that originated overseas, according to Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who suggested they were intended to agitate the election. In other words, Baker may have been knowingly spreading foreign propaganda intended to stifle American elections. Nevertheless, Baker said it’s Haitian migrants who are “feeling particularly threatened” at the moment and that the fear” comes back to Trump, actually”.
Barbaro took his cue from there:” Right, in some sense Trump is the through-line in this new era of political violence”, he said. However, that’s a pretty difficult equation to consider because Trump has occasionally sparked political unrest with his rhetoric. We know that”.
The “political violence” Barbaro referenced was of course the single riot within the last decade that government-amplified media have chosen to condemn— , Jan. 6, 2021, in which the only gunshot fired was from a cop at an unarmed Trump supporter he struck in the neck and killed.
Baker agreed, noting that Trump “has raised the bar so high in our society that politics is an existential fight and it’s not just enough to have a debate.” He also cited his own indolence.
In a Times ‘ flagship podcast episode that purportedly focused on a second assassination attempt against a former president who is running for president once more, the two reporters were recapping on January 6, 2021 in an effort to discredit a real controversy in a region crucial to the election’s outcome. The only real issue in Springfield, in their opinion, is that Trump is frightening the immigrants Kamala Harris dumped on.
Nice!
To be sure, Baker admitted that Democrats ‘ rhetoric, including from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, is “pretty strong”. ( That’s when they’re not criminally prosecuting him, I’d add. ) But, he said, Trump is so much worse, of course.
” He does n’t seem to have any compunctions about using language like that against them and in fact, he’s used much worse”, Baker said. He has “directly encouraged” beating up protesters or hecklers at his rallies and shooting unarmed people like looters or immigrants.
Setting aside that it’s perfectly legal in some cases to shoot looters and immigrants, if a TV anchor gets to determine whether Trump is speaking sarcastically, then I’m more than qualified to determine whether he’s joking, and Trump was definitely joking when he “encouraged” assaulting the hecklers at his rallies.
Democrats have compared Trump to Adolf Hitler on the hour for almost a decade, taken his economic “bloodbath” remark out of context, and called him an existential threat to democracy. However, according to Baker, Trump “has gone much further than the language he complains about using in his own rhetoric.” So, again, it’s Trump’s fault he was twice nearly murdered in broad daylight.
If the cost of running for president as a Republican is to constantly worry that you will be taken out and that the media will blame you for it, that is the definition of encouraging and justifying future violence. FBI?
