The Patriot Post® · Trump-Hating Media Blames the Victim

Donald Trump needs to stop wearing those short skirts. Otherwise, he’s going to get himself assassinated.

That seems to be the message of the mainstream media after the second attempt on the life of the former president and Republican standard-bearer. As sickening as it seems, the reality is right there in front of us: The Democrats’ Leftmedia bootlickers have gone from decrying political violence to blaming the victim for political violence — at least when that victim is Donald Trump.

Trump, then, is the equivalent of a rape victim. And our vile, loathsome, despicable media is blaming him, saying he asked for it.

Take NBC News anchor Lester Holt, for example. “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself,” he said. “Mr. Trump [and] his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town.”

NBC’s Lester Holt: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants” in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. pic.twitter.com/apw9WQ1liR

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024

Holt was referring to Springfield, that town in Ohio which has been, yes, overrun by Haitian immigrants thanks to the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration. And while there’s no direct evidence that they’re eating the cats, there’s plenty of evidence that the rapid introduction of 20,000 immigrants to a town of 60,000 does grievous damage to the delicate fabric of a community.

B-b-b-but, the bomb threats! shrieked Holt and his fellow assassination apologists. Trump and Vance are responsible for the bomb threats!

Rubbish. As Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said yesterday, “Thirty-three threats, 33 hoaxes. None of these had any validity at all.” He added, “We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country.”

But, yeah, it’s all Trump’s fault.

The Washington Post’s Philip Bump is looking at the bright side, sneering of the assassination attempt, “Another chance for Trump to frame the Democrats as dangerous has emerged.” But who needs to frame the Democrats? They’re doing a heckuva job of that themselves.

Just think about the language Kamala Harris has repeatedly used. On May 21 in Philadelphia, she said Trump “took to social media and highlighted language from Nazi Germany,” adding, “This kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming from the former president, and it is appalling.”

In addition to playing the tiresome Nazi card, Harris has, throughout her tenure as vice president, also spewed variations on the following theme: “The former president is a threat to our most fundamental freedoms. He has openly said he will be a dictator on day one.”

Oh, sure, Harris on Sunday posted the following statement to X: “I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump at his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”

Except, of course, when we’re stoking it by comparing our political opponents to Nazis. And when we’re cheering it on in the wake of the deadly George Floyd riots.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid must’ve gotten Harris’s Demo memo. “Let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House,” she said.

Getting back to Harris, let’s not forget her cheerleading of the Black Lives Matter rioters four years ago. “They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop,” said the then-presidential candidate. “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They’re not gonna let up, and they should not.”

And they should not. Let that sink in.

Harris has also repeatedly pushed all the other inflammatory lies about Trump: about those “very fine people” in Charlottesville, about that “bloodbath,” about a nationwide abortion ban, about Trump vowing to be “a dictator on day one.”

She learned from the worst. She learned from Joe “Beat the Hell Out of Him” Biden.

While Harris and her fellow Democrats have been busy dehumanizing Trump, their mainstream media enablers have been dismissing the political violence directed toward him. As NBC News put it on Sunday, “Man in custody after Trump golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun.”

Ah, so it wasn’t an assassination attempt; it was just an “incident” — you know, like some knucklehead hitting over the foursome in front of him. But at least NBC covered it. That’s more than we can say for USA Today. Fox News’s Guy Benson posted an image of the national newspaper’s home page yesterday. The lead story was titled, “Hope in America: We’re optimistic about everything except our politics.”

With apologies to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Democrats and their media enablers are defining depravity down. Donald Trump just narrowly avoided assassination for the second time in two months, and they say he’s the one who needs to tone it down.

This is sick stuff.