The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Yellow Journalism

“Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally.” —CNN

“Nothing justifies an assassination bid — but did Trump play a part in changing the rules of engagement?” —Sky News

Village Idiots

“I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.” —Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) staffer Jacqueline Marsaw, who was subsequently fired

“An AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle was used in the Butler shooting. These are the guns the Republican party — and Trump — want to protect.” —author Stephen King

For the Record

“I’ve been talking to agents … and they are upset, they’re demoralized, they’re angry. And I think the fundamental thing that’s going to come out is that President Trump is not a normal, average former president. He should’ve had a much bigger package and detail.” —House Oversight Committee member Mike Waltz (R-FL)

“Most people would agree that Adolf Hitler should have been killed for what he did. So if you apply that brand to Donald Trump to a warped, deranged, impressionable young mind … it’s not entirely surprising that people may want to eliminate the ‘new Hitler.’” —broadcaster Piers Morgan

“The Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy. He is not.” —former Attorney General William Barr

Upright

“I don’t care about getting criticized. It’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention.” —Teamsters President Sean O'Brien

“I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don’t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough SOB.” —Sean O'Brien

“Something is wrong in this country, and we need to say it out loud.” —Sean O'Brien

“Remember: Elites have no party. Elites have no nation. Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and the stock price at the expense of the American worker.” —Sean O'Brien

Non Compos Mentis

“In America, we resolve our differences at the battle box.” —Joe Biden

Projection

“Project 2025 will deploy the Department of Justice to prosecute Trump’s enemies.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lies

“I wasn’t going to run again. … I was a professor — a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania at the time. … But then what happened was, remember down in Charlottesville, Virginia, when those folks came out of the woods carrying torches and Nazi banners and literally singing the … same songs sung in Germany in the ‘30s? … [Trump] said, 'There were very good people on both sides.’” —Joe Biden

“When America saw white nationalists and neo-Nazis march through the streets of Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and activists were rallying against racism, Mr. Trump spoke of ‘very fine people on both sides.’” —The New York Times editorial board

“I was a young fella involved in the Civil Rights movement in my state. … We’d plan what we were going to do, how to desegregate the restaurants and the streets of our city.” —Joe Biden

“The vast majority agree our economy is moving in the right direction.” —Joe Biden

“Here’s what I know: I know how to tell the truth! I know right from wrong! I know how and I’ve demonstrated how to do this job!” —Joe Biden