Echoing the sentiments of a number of legacy media critics, a writer for The Federalist reflected on the media’s purported role in shaping the circumstances that allowed for someone to try to kill former President Donald Trump.
No doubt the constant barrage of messaging from mainstream outlets, Democratic Party apparatchiks, and other anti-Trump pundits has painted a picture of an authoritarian figure who wants nothing more than to destroy the American experiment. In that atmosphere, some feel it was only a matter of time before some left-wing nutjob took a shot at the former president.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, a number of political figures in Tarrant County had some harsh words for the mainstream media in the aftermath of the assassination attempt.
“Following the eight years of lies and attacks from the left on Donald Trump and his supporters, none of us were surprised that they tried to assassinate him. Many of us have been predicting that for some time,” Tarrant County Republican Party Chair Bo French said in a statement to DX.
Here’s some of what Brianna Lyman of The Federalist had to say about the media’s role in setting the stage for this past weekend’s historic incident:
It was the shot heard round the world. A sound no one wanted to hear but one that was the culmination of the moral rot that has infested our political left and corporate left-wing media. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was an act of depraved wickedness — but not everyone sees it that way because corporate media spent months desensitizing Americans to the possibility of such an egregious attempt.
For years the left has smeared Trump and his supporters as “threats to democracy.” Pundits portrayed Trump as a man akin to Adolf Hitler. But these deliberate and malicious misrepresentations of Trump were part of the left’s plan to prep the public for an assassination attempt against Trump. As Federalist Co-Founder and CEO Sean Davis explained back in December, this type of rhetoric is “assassination prep by the corrupt regime.”
“It is an obvious information operation meant to justify and even incite the most extreme measures, up to and including unconscionable violence. They will stop at nothing to retain power.”
