If the price to pay as a Republican running for president is the media blaming you for being nearly assassinated, they are culpable.
The FBI should consider stopping by the homes of New York Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Peter Baker after their slew of public remarks about Donald Trump that could incite more violence against the former president.
It’s been all of two days since Trump again narrowly averted an attempt on his life, the second in just as many months, and the national news media have paused not for a minute in blaming the former president for the attempted attack. Barbaro and Baker went further on Tuesday’s episode of the “The Daily” New York Times podcast, asserting that virtually all future political violence, regardless of a potential perpetrator’s party or ideological affiliation, is because of Trump.
Barbaro raised the question on the show as to “whether the United States has now officially entered a new era of political violence with Donald Trump at its center.” To answer that question was Baker, who had conveniently just written an article headlined, “Trump, Outrage and the Modern Era of Political Violence.”
Without hesitation, Baker immediately pivoted to the Springfield, Ohio, animal-eating migrants controversy that Trump’s campaign has highlighted and corporate media have hysterically insisted is not real, despite on-record, eyewitness testimony confirming it. “The former president just last week said that these immigrants are eating people’s pet dogs and pet cats,” he said. “Not true, no evidence of that.” […]
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