Every member of the Dallas City Council appeared tight-lipped online following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The Dallas Express reached out to Council Members Chad West (District 1), Jesse Moreno (District 2), Zarin D. Gracey (District 3), Carolyn King Arnold (District 4), Jaime Resendez (District 5), Omar Narvaez (District 6), Adam Bazaldua (District 7), Tennell Atkins (District 8), Paula Blackmon (District 9), Kathy Stewart (District 10), Jaynie Schultz (District 11), Cara Mendelsohn (District 12), Gay Donnell Willis (District 13), and Paul Ridley (District 14) for comment regarding the historic incident.
DX also contacted each council member’s press secretary.
No response was received from anyone’s office by publication.
The council members have also been conspicuously quiet on social media. DX checked each council member’s Facebook and X accounts to see if anyone reacted to the shooting that resulted in the death of bystander 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and the wounding of Trump and two other rally attendees.
Some council members, like Stewart and Ridley, have not posted on Facebook in years. Likewise, Stewart, Ridley, and Arnold either do not have X accounts, or their accounts have been mostly inactive for extended periods of time.
Nevertheless, one of Bazaldua’s most recent X posts may raise concerns as the nation considers how heated rhetoric has influenced violent political acts.
For those who haven't yet imagined the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here. pic.twitter.com/k4cwT7Bzvg
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 11, 2024
The council member had recently retweeted a video by the Lincoln Project that heavily implied Trump would govern as a totalitarian dictator if elected in November.
Among the many things the video suggested the president would do in a second term were arrest political opponents, deport “American citizens,” send citizens to “camps,” and authorize states to monitor women’s menstrual cycles.
DX followed up with Bazaldua to seek comment on whether his retweet should be reversed given purportedly similar action on the part of President Joe Biden, who recently deleted a tweet about putting Trump in a “bullseye” that was posted just days before the shooting.
Bazaldua again did not respond.