The Sudden Epstein Fixation Is About One Thing Only: Getting Trump.”)
It had become so common to call Trump a rapist that George Stephanopoulos didn’t think twice when he asked Rep. Nancy Mace why she supported Trump despite his being found “liable for rape.” ABC News had to cough up $16 million and a written apology to settle the defamation suit Trump filed. But Democrats calling Trump a rapist is like dogs barking; it’s instinctive.
And Democrats have been accusing Trump of being a traitor since before he was first elected and well before Jan. 6, 2021. In fact, another would-be assassin cited it to justify his actions in June 2017, less than six months after Trump first took office.
James Hodgkinson, who targeted Republican lawmakers and nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, posted on Facebook in June 2017 that “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”
By the way, Amazon currently sells a “Trump is a traitor” flag for less than $20.
If anything, Allen is tame in his manifesto. He never calls Trump a Nazi or compares him to Hitler, or says he’s a threat to democracy who must be taken down – all of which various Democrats have asserted at one point or another.
He does go on to say that he was doing this on behalf of “the person raped in a detention camp… the fisherman executed without trial… a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.”
We don’t know what Allen is referring to specifically with most of the claims, since they have been regurgitated for years.
The “fisherman,” however, appears to refer to an unproven accusation widely circulated by Democrats that Trump “murdered” an innocent fisherman when the administration bombed a boat suspected of trafficking narcotics.
Vermont Sen. Peter Welch was one of them, saying Trump believes he “can accuse someone of being a criminal, or affiliated with a group of criminals, and based on that accusation alone grant himself the power to be judge, jury, and executioner.”
By Allen’s own words, then, he pins the blame on Democrats — including the party’s leaders — for his actions.
Not that any of this will cause Democrats or TDS sufferers to self-reflect, given that the previous attempts on Trump’s life only caused them to amp up their violent rhetoric. Even now, they are blaming Trump for the recurring efforts to take him out.
Is Trump guilty of using extreme language against his opponents? Unfortunately, yes. But we’d argue that Democrats got this particular ball rolling more than a decade ago when they started treating Trump as a pariah as soon as he started leading in the 2016 primaries. Trump has arguably simply been responding in kind.
In any case, Democrats should take their own often-given advice and break the cycle of violence. Acknowledge their culpability. Police their rhetoric. Who knows, maybe it could lead toward national unity and healing.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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