It’s a bizarre campaign full of bullets and finger-pointing.
This campaign is also full of rumors, unproven accusations, exaggerations and lies.
Just ask your dog or cat.
Trump blames Kamala for second assassination attempt, Democrats blame Trump for Haitians in Ohio
Two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate within six weeks is truly frightening. There’s no room for debate. Joe Biden made a friendly phone call to Donald Trump — Trump said he “couldn’t be nicer” — and should order the Secret Service to protect Trump as if he were now president.
That means authorities should have closed the West Palm Beach golf courses while he was playing. This should happen immediately. Golf courses are inherently difficult to protect because they are large, flat areas with few places to hide. The Washington Post editorial agrees with me. Forget about the bureaucratic nuances, this is crazy. This gunman with a long criminal history might have succeeded if a sharp-eyed investigator hadn’t noticed the muzzle of a gun protruding from a chain-link fence.
Trump may have nine lives, but we don’t want him to lose any more.
Calls to tone it down after a near-shooting in Butler didn’t last long, but Trump has struck an offensive line, telling Fox Digital that the Florida shooter “believed what Biden and Harris said and acted on it. And I’m being shot because of what they said.”
It is true that Democrats have routinely portrayed Trump as a danger to democracy, a potential dictator who tried to steal the election and will never allow it to be held again. The hostile media has played a big role here, repeatedly likening Trump to Hitler and Mussolini.
Trump, meanwhile, has said his opponents are using law enforcement as a weapon against him for partisan reasons and that they too are a danger to democracy.
Kamala goes on the offensive, Trump turns personal, ABC gets tougher on former president
And Democrats are trying to turn the tables with a long list of inflammatory rhetoric from Trump since he ran for president in 2015.
In my opinion, the media has moved on too quickly from the second assassination attempt. But why waste time on a pointless search for a “motive” outside of political topics? Anyone who tries to kill a presidential candidate for fame is, by definition, crazy.
J.D. Vance said that because no one tried to kill Harris and Trump has survived two assassination attempts, “this is pretty strong evidence that the left needs to shut up and stop this crap.”
Vance’s innocence was vindicated in another way: After the influx of 15,000 legal Haitian immigrants into Springfield, Ohio, I don’t know why Trump brought up the completely false “they’re eating dogs, they’re eating cats” story. Even Republican Governor Mike DeWine called it “bullshit.”
Trump’s running mate also spread the story and has been accused of inciting bomb threats that caused schools and other facilities to close for days — something no public figure should be accused of.
We now know that all of those calls were made from abroad to escalate friction in an Ohio town.
Debate challenge: Kamala and Trump trade accusations, putting pressure on her
On the other hand, I wasn’t going to bring up the unfounded online rumor about Laura Loomer, the far-right conspiracy theorist who believes 9/11 was an inside job, because I don’t think a self-described Islamophobe should be given any more attention.
But now she’s fired back on the Rumble podcast.
“The media is now accusing me of having an affair with Donald Trump. What a dirty lie, so spiteful and so disrespectful to Donald Trump and Melania Trump! They have gone this far!”
“If I were a left-wing journalist and a Democrat, the media would be outraged if a Republican media outlet did this to a left-wing journalist.
“Oh my goodness, they’re misogynistic. They’re bullying women. They’re trying to make her into Monica Lewinsky!”
And she slandered Kamala Harris by saying she gave Willie Brown oral sex to get to the top. This was before Brown became mayor of San Francisco, and the two had a public relationship for several years in the 1990s, a decade after Brown split from his wife.
So much of our politics now runs on accusations and counteraccusations of misinformation and disinformation that I find the recent attacks on Hillary Clinton almost inexplicable.
Yes, she’s promoting her fourth autobiography, and in her first interview with Rachel Maddow, the former first lady, senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate attacked free speech.
She called for criminal charges and civil penalties against Americans “engaged” in spreading “propaganda.”
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What? Who draws the line between offensive content and propaganda? Do we want the Justice Department of one administration making such judgments against politicians, activists, and journalists who align with the other party?
This would never pass, but even a simple message is an infringement of the First Amendment’s right to free speech.