WASHINGTON—The Republican Study Committee marked the anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by warning of the dangers of violent political rhetoric.
Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) on Monday introduced a <a href="https://kelly.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-kelly-rsc-chairman-pfluger-introduce-resolution-marking-one-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> condemning the attempts on Trump’s life as well as “those who incite violence against political officials.” The resolution specifically mentioned the recent fatal shooting of a Minnesota state representative, and an arson attack at Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s home.
Pfluger and Kelly discussed the resolution in a Monday <a href="https://www.news9.com/story/68757532494364ff6a727e77/watch-republican-study-committee-press-conference-on-first-anniversary-of-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a>, saying that it was up to lawmakers to combat violent rhetoric, lest it lead people to violence.
“We can pass resolution after resolution. We can go to church on Sunday and abhor what’s taking place and we leave that church and we go out and we practice what we just condemned in our churches,” Kelly said. “The illness has far deeper roots than we know.”
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/politics/trump-butler-assassination-maga-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would-be assassin</a> who shot Trump last year in Butler, Pennsylvania, was inspired by the Left’s violent rhetoric.
“Leftists on the other side of the aisle were slandering that same then presidential candidate, saying that he is a threat to democracy, that he’s a wannabe dictator, that he is literally Hitler, in their words,” he said. “And some people on their side of the aisle take those words at face value. And they tried to assassinate him.”
Several Study Committee members noted that they had received death threats. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she received a syringe in the mail; Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) said he was run off the road, and Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) said his daughters were both sent envelopes containing “urine, blood, and feces” that read “This will be on your father’s tombstone.”
Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) told The Daily Wire that his district offices examined their own security after the June 14 assassination of Minnesota State Representative <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/melissa-hortman-minnesota-assassination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Hortman</a>.
But, Harris said he’s “not sure there&#8217;s enough money in the world to actually solve the problem because the problem comes from individuals, and there are plenty of individuals that are on the edge.”
Harris said the resolution was “simply calling out everybody to dial back the rhetoric and recognizing how we’ve got to somehow in this nation get back to having civil discourse.”
“One of the things that is so clear to me is we&#8217;ve allowed our politics to become far more focused on personalities and persons than we have focused on policy,” Harris added. “Unfortunately, when you don&#8217;t really have anything to say that people will buy into for policy, then you choose to just go after a person. That’s where you get into trouble.”
And while Harris noted that “you can&#8217;t legislate” violent rhetoric away, he said that political leaders nevertheless “have a responsibility to talk about the issue.”
Still, he said, the only way for things to really change is for “the American people say enough is enough” and “start punishing the politicians that are attacking personalities.”

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House Republicans Call For An End To Violent Rhetoric On The Anniversary Of Butler Shooting

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) attempted to blame political violence — like the targeted shooting of two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in his home state — on &#8220;mean tweets&#8221; in an apparent jab at President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he himself had called on Democrats to &#8220;be meaner&#8221; just a few weeks earlier.
Walz gave a statement on Sunday evening after it was announced that the alleged shooter, Vance Boelter, had been apprehended after a two-day manhunt — and he called for &#8220;decency&#8221; in political discourse.
&#8220;A moment in this country where we watch violence erupt, this cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences,&#8221; Walz began. &#8220;Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country. And each and every one of us can do it.&#8221;
&#8220;Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was. In the first negotiating session that I had a chance to work with her, she got all the partners in the room, and she provided each and every one of us a copy of a book called &#8216;Getting to Yes,'&#8221; he continued, remembering the deceased legislator. &#8220;And the whole premise was debating with a sense of goodwill, a sense to come to compromises that serve everyone. And because of her, we did that. Because of her we did that year after year after year. That’s the embodiment of how things are supposed to work.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not about hatred. It’s not about mean tweets,&#8221; Walz added, in an apparent jab at Trump. &#8220;It’s not about demeaning someone. It’s leading with grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency. That was taken from us in Minnesota with the murder of Speaker Hortman. So for each and every one of us to truly honor, and we will, we will continue to honor that spirit, but we will need to do it in just more than actions in a memorial. Conducting ourselves in the spirit that Melissa Hortman did her work is what the country needs to heal.&#8221;
The governor&#8217;s words on Sunday mark a dramatic departure from what he said just a few weeks earlier about Democrats needing to &#8220;be a little meaner&#8221; when it came to engaging in political discourse.
Walz, during his remarks at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention, referred to Trump as a &#8220;wannabe dictator,&#8221; a &#8220;bully,&#8221; and a &#8220;cruel man&#8221; – and suggested that Democrats needed to &#8220;bully him back.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce,&#8221; he said.

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Tim Walz Told Dems To ‘Be Meaner,’ Then Blamed Trump’s ‘Mean Tweets’ For Political Violence

Gov Who Called ICE Agents 'Modern Day Gestapo' Blames Trump 'Mean Tweets' For Political Violence

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Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) blamed President Donald Trump for the shootings that took place in Minnesota, apparently targeting Democratic lawmakers in politically motivated attacks — and CNN anchor John Berman gave him no pushback.
Merkley joined Berman on Monday morning, just hours after it was announced that the suspect in the case had been apprehended, and he immediately pivoted to attack Trump when asked about the political climate in the country.
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In an unbelievable moment just now on CNN, Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley just blamed President Trump for the weekend shootings of Minnesota lawmakers.
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Berman set Merkley up for the attack, framing his question about the Minnesota shootings in such a way as to suggest that the political climate was responsible for driving the shooter to act.
&#8220;There was a state representative, Democratic leader, of the state legislature in Minnesota killed over the weekend, a state senator shot,&#8221; Berman began. &#8220;How would you describe the political atmosphere in this country this morning?&#8221;
&#8220;I feel like Trump has really popped the lid off of the rhetoric and the sense of hate and violence, and promoted this type of environment,&#8221; Merkley said, suggesting several times that the threats were only coming from the right. &#8220;It&#8217;s profoundly disturbing for all of us. We have seen increased threats across the country, you&#8217;re probably familiar with the pizza threats, we&#8217;ve seen more of that where pizzas or other food is delivered to people&#8217;s families that they haven&#8217;t ordered just to say from the right-wing, we know who you are, we know where you live.&#8221;
&#8220;I can tell you all of our families feel a greatly heightened sense — let me just say my heart goes out to the families in Minnesota. How horrific — horrific for the whole country, but particularly we&#8217;re holding the folks in Minnesota in our hearts,&#8221; he added.

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CNN Anchor Says Nothing As Dem Senator Blames Trump For Minnesota Assassinations

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After two horrific attacks in under two weeks — both perpetrated by anti-Israel terrorists who either claimed they&#8217;d acted on behalf of Gaza or shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; as they carried out their violent acts — conservative pundits are drawing a hard line directly through the &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; movement to the increasingly violent attacks on American Jews.
Fox News contributor Guy Benson made the case during a Monday appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; where he explained that the disturbingly violent acts — such as Mohamed Sabry Soliman fire-bombing adults and children at a pro-Israel demonstration or Elias Rodriguez gunning down two young Israeli Embassy staffers without provocation — were not outliers. Instead, he said they were the manifestation of loud calls across American college campuses to &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; and to stop Israel &#8220;by any means necessary.&#8221;
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🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> speaks the PLAIN, HONEST TRUTH:
&#8220;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!&#8221;
&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221;
&#8220;Two students at Harvard in 2023 physically assaulted a Jewish… <a href="https://t.co/16hjxyvnrG">pic.twitter.com/16hjxyvnrG</a>
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&#8220;I saw an observer yesterday note, &#8216;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!'&#8221; Benson began. &#8220;When we hear these chants of &#8216;Globalize the Intifada,&#8217; &#8216;by any means necessary,&#8217; ringing out in our cities, on our campuses at these hate rallies, this is what it actually looks like in practice.&#8221;
&#8220;It looks like a governor&#8217;s mansion, torched in the middle of the night with a Jewish leader sleeping upstairs with his family,&#8221; Benson continued, referencing the arson attack against Governor Josh Shapiro during Passover. &#8220;It looks like two employees of the Israeli Embassy in this city, our capital city, murdered in cold blood at a Jewish museum. And it looks like these elderly Jewish Americans fire-bombed at a peaceful rally on behalf of releasing hostages in Colorado.&#8221;
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&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Their rhetoric is violent, they justify violence, they celebrate violence, and increasingly, they are engaging in violence not just over there, here in the United States. It&#8217;s a disgrace, and it has to stop.&#8221;
Benson also called out the media coverage of the attacks, adding, &#8220;If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of &#8216;national conversation&#8217; would we be having?&#8221;
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If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1929386771168538786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN Republican pundit Scott Jennings took things a step further, saying during an appearance on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper that the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States was effectively a domestic terror organization.
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What more do we need to see before we acknowledge this &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?
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&#8220;This is horrific,&#8221; he said of the fire-bombing attack in Boulder. &#8220;What more do we need to see, Jake, before we realize this &#8216;free Palestine&#8217; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?&#8221;
&#8220;The rise of antisemitism in America, the rise of the number of people who have come to America who hold anti-American views, anti-Western views, and antisemitic views — and are now willing to act on it – it is absolutely outrageous,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;And I think as a society, we need to understand. We are dealing with domestic terrorism, it&#8217;s growing more violent by the day, and if we don&#8217;t deal with it, these kinds of things are going to keep happening in cities all over the place. It&#8217;s awful, and we need to come to grips with the fight that we&#8217;re in right now in America, a fight for the future of our country and the future of western civilization.&#8221;

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Conservative Pundits Blast Violent ‘Free Palestine’ Movement For What It Is: ‘A Domestic Terror Org’

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President Donald Trump said Friday that former FBI Director James Comey knew what he was doing when he posted a picture on social media that was interpreted by many as a threat against his life.
Trump was responding to a picture Comey posted on Instagram showing seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “86” and “47” with the caption &#8220;cool shell formation on my walk.&#8221; Trump officials have initiated investigations into Comey, as &#8220;86&#8221; can be used as slang for killing someone, and Trump is the 47th president. Comey deleted the post, saying that he did not mean to imply that Trump should be killed and that he assumed the shells were a &#8220;political message.&#8221;
&#8220;He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant… that meant assassination,&#8221; Trump told Fox News in an interview. &#8220;And it says it loud and clear. Now he wasn’t very confident but he was confident enough to know what that meant.&#8221;
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s &#8220;86 47&#8221; threat: &#8220;He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant &#8230; That meant &#8216;assassination.'&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/LfOHKfSOFa">pic.twitter.com/LfOHKfSOFa</a>
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“He did it for a reason and he was hit so hard because people like me and they like what’s happening with our country,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Our country’s become respected again and all this. And he’s calling for the assassination of the president.”
When Fox News host Bret Baier asked what he would like to see happen to Comey, Trump said he would leave it up to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“I think it&#8217;s a terrible thing,” Trump said. “If he had a clean history, he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop, he’s a dirty cop. And if he had a clean history, I could understand if there’s a leniency, but I’m going to let them make that decision.”
Comey removed the post after backlash, saying he was unaware of the association of &#8220;86&#8221; with violence.
“I posted a picture earlier of some shells I saw on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey said. “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-of-national-intel-says-comey-should-be-thrown-jail-86-trump-post?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Tulsi+Gabbard+Says+Comey+Should+Be+Thrown+In+Jail+For+‘86′+Trump+Post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday that she believed that Comey should be put in jail for the post, saying that he was essentially issuing a call for Trump to be assassinated.
Trump survived two assassination attempts while campaigning last year, including one where a bullet struck him in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.

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President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called out Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) over recent remarks that he said could easily “be construed as inciting violence.”
Miller took questions outside the White House on Monday, where he was asked about Pritzker’s call to action for Democrats and his assertion that Republicans should not be allowed a moment of peace.
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Stephen Miller (<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>) on Gov. JB Pritzker: &quot;His comments, if nothing else, could be construed as inciting violence.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9LZ642LS4H">pic.twitter.com/9LZ642LS4H</a>
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Pritzker, speaking at McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner in New Hampshire on Sunday, said, “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I have now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and every microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.&#8221;
Miller’s response was simple: “What I would say is that his comments, if nothing else, could be construed as inciting violence.”
The longtime Trump adviser went on to note that the president had already survived two assassination attempts and law enforcement had foiled numerous other credible threats on his life, and the comments made by Pritzker expressed the kind of sentiment that could potentially drive more of the same.
Miller also pointed out that left-wing attacks resulting in property damage and destruction — like the recent spate of attacks on Tesla dealerships and vehicles — were only a short leap away from physical attacks against people.
“Once you tolerate, and once you allow for attacks on property, you’re just a step away from throwing Molotov cocktails into people’s homes,” he said.
Miller briefly mentioned how the normalizing of political violence — driven by rhetoric like Pritzker’s — led to scenarios like former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz saying she felt “joy” when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was executed on a New York street.
Miller then addressed the fact that Pritzker, along with several other Democrat governors, was attempting to “wage war” against the federal government on issues like illegal immigration in which the federal government had supremacy to make, implement, and enforce policy.
”I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said.

Stephen Miller Speaks To Media At White House

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Stephen Miller Blasts JB Pritzker For ‘Inciting Violence’

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The man suspected of setting the Pennsylvania governor&#8217;s mansion on fire over the weekend planned on attacking Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro, according to police.
Police <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25896483-balmer-criminal-complaint-and-affidavit-mdj-klein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> reveal that 38-year-old Cody Balmer admitted that he harbored &#8220;hatred towards&#8221; Shapiro and planned on beating him with a hammer if he encountered the governor as he allegedly threw two Molotov cocktails into Shapiro&#8217;s residence. Balmer has been charged with attempted homicide, aggravated arson, burglary, reckless endangerment, terrorism, and multiple counts of aggravated assault.
Shapiro and his family were inside the home during the attack, which did significant damage. They were awoken by Pennsylvania State Police around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday and were escorted out of the residence.
Balmer turned himself in to the police shortly after he called an &#8220;ex-paramour&#8221; to confess to her and ask her to alert law enforcement, according to a police affidavit. The same affidavit says that Balmer admitted to the attack and told police that he knew people could be harmed because of his actions.
“He advised on the date in question he removed gasoline from a lawn mower and poured it into Heineken Bottles he found at his residence,&#8221; the police affidavit says. &#8220;Balmer advised he walked for approximately one hour from his residence to the Governor’s Residence with the intention of throwing his homemade Molotov cocktails into the residence.” 
He reportedly told police that he climbed the perimeter fence of the governor&#8217;s mansion, broke two windows with a hammer, and then threw the Molotov cocktails into the home. 
&#8220;Balmer was asked specifically what he would have done if Governor Shapiro found him inside of his residence, to which he advised he would have beaten him with his hammer,&#8221; the affidavit says.
When police searched Balmer&#8217;s residence, they found clothing that matched the outfit worn by the individual seen on surveillance video and a small sledgehammer.
Balmer&#8217;s mother <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/josh-shapiro-governors-residence-harrisburg-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News that he was &#8220;mentally ill and he went off his medication&#8221; when the attack occurred.
Speaking on Sunday, Shapiro said that police knew that the attack was targeted but didn&#8217;t specifically know why.
&#8220;We don’t know the person’s specific motive yet, but we do know a few truths,&#8221; he said. &#8220;First, this type of violence is not okay. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society, and I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another, or one particular person or another, it is not okay, and it has to stop.”

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The Revolutionary Left is creeping into the mainstream.
The shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has unleashed a wave of evil from members of the Left. Thompson wasn’t a criminal. He wasn’t even an advocate of death the way abortionists or euthanasia advocates are. (And murder of an abortionist or euthanasia advocate would be unjustifiable morally in a democratic system.) His great sin is that he was the head of a company that exists within a mixed private-public healthcare framework, and that he did his job.
But for the Left, if you hate the system, you are morally justified in murdering anyone who acts within the system. That means that if, like one Bernie Sanders follower, you believe that private healthcare “kills Americans,” you can murder Congressmen. It means that if you don’t like that health insurers often deny coverage for certain pre-existing conditions or non-covered doctors or medication, you can murder the CEO of a health insurance company.
This is revolutionary leftist evil.
It’s evil for a couple reasons.
First, violence is not justified in a democracy, where your say is part of the process. Revolution to overthrow tyranny is justified — but the tyranny must be real, and the violence must be the last resort. Neither is true in this case. If you do perceive America to be a tyranny and violence to be the proper response, that is a call for unending violence until the system itself is changed. It’s a call for revolution.
Second, violence against members of private industry isn’t even a protest of public policy. It’s a protest against the very system of free markets. Thompson was not responsible for America’s healthcare system any more than the head of CVS is responsible for America’s tariff system. Directing hatred against Thompson is not about shaping public policy. It’s about trying to threaten anyone who engages in free markets at all. This person could have just as easily shot a doctor who decided not to perform a surgery, or a bank worker who denied a loan application.
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This was the philosophy of the Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. They weren’t seeking a better world. They were seeking to tear down the world of capitalism on behalf of Marxist evil. They routinely quoted Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci; they called for revolution. Ulrike Meinhof, a Left-wing radical journalist, led the way, famously stating, “Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”
That philosophy led the Baader-Meinhof Gang to engage in routine assassination of everyone from industrialists like Hanns Martin Schleyer to Dresdner Bank head Jurgen Ponto to American servicemen in Germany. These people can also become tools of enemy regimes, as Baader-Meinhof was. Baader-Meinhof worked with the Stasi and other Soviet agents to foment chaos, and coordinated with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestine Liberation Organization.
The origins of Baader-Meinhof came from the 1968 student protests in Germany. They were Marxist in orientation, influenced by radical race riots in the United States, and allied with radicals all over the globe; Meinhof wrote an essay defending the Munich Massacre of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists. Stefan Aust, who literally wrote the book on the Baader-Meinhof Gang, pointed out:
<blockquote>The Baader–Meinhof Gang drew a measure of support that violent leftists in the United States, like the Weather Underground, never enjoyed. A poll at the time showed that a quarter of West Germans under forty felt sympathy for the gang and one-tenth said they would hide a gang member from the police. Prominent intellectuals spoke up for the gang&#8217;s righteousness [as] Germany even into the 1970s was still a guilt-ridden society. When the gang started robbing banks, newscasts compared its members to Bonnie and Clyde. (Andreas) Baader, a charismatic action man indulged in the imagery, telling people that his favourite movies were Bonnie and Clyde, which had recently come out, and The Battle of Algiers. The pop poster of Che Guevara hung on his wall, [while] he paid a designer to make a Red Army Faction logo, a drawing of a machine gun against a red star.</blockquote>
What do we make of the journalists and academics who proclaim soft support for the murder of Brian Thompson? That we are on the verge of something terrible. After all, this follows hard on the Black Lives Matters riots, which were indulged and even celebrated by many on the Left; the Hamas takeover of college campuses, again indulged and celebrated by Left-wing elite; and now, the not-so-quiet applause for the assassination of a private healthcare CEO.
The toxic brew of radicalism and violence that characterized the 1970s in Germany and the United States is bubbling again. And why not? Many of those who engaged in precisely that violence are now well-respected American academics: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn found high positions in academia after spending years planting bombs with the Weather Underground.
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Certainly a desperate Left, spurred to action by constant talk of the “fascistic” takeover of Donald Trump, can be counted on to increase their support for violence. Two assassination attempts against Trump in the last six months are merely an indicator of just how deeply this rot is spreading.
This must be stopped. It can only be stopped by a widespread rejection on all sides of the aisle for this type of violence. The shooter in this case should be arrested and given the death penalty. Seedbeds for such Marxist-Leninist violence on college campuses should be defunded. Those like Taylor Lorenz should be rejected from polite society.
The Brian Thompson shooting is a bleeding edge indicator of where the country could be going. All it takes is someone with organizational capacity on the Left to launch America into a new era of domestic terrorism, with the tacit “moral” support of much of the journalistic establishment.

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NewsNation host Chris Cuomo immediately contradicted his Democrat guest during a recent interview, calling him out for claiming that former President Donald Trump was the &#8220;only one perpetuating violence&#8221; when it came to political rhetoric.
Cuomo spoke with MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen about the fact that there have now been two assassination attempts on the former president — the most recent foiled by U.S. Secret Service agents just this past Sunday — and the Trump campaign has called on Democrats, in particular, to tone down the rhetoric that could potentially incite violent actions.
Cuomo began the conversation by asking why Democrats had gotten so mad at him for suggesting they should take steps to lower the temperature.
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.⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/briantylercohen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@briantylercohen</a>⁩: “The reason Democrats get so up in arms about this idea that Democrats have to disavow violence, is because the only reason this violence is here is because of [Trump]. He’s the only one perpetuating violence.”
⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCuomo</a>⁩: “Yeah…no he isn’t” <a href="https://t.co/WnCREoIh82">pic.twitter.com/WnCREoIh82</a>
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&#8220;So, why did you guys get in such high dudgeon about what I said that was so obvious?&#8221; Cuomo asked. &#8220;Which is, you guys should be as loud about going after Trump as you are about the danger of hate speech.&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, I think they&#8217;re one and the same,&#8221; Cohen replied. &#8220;I think the reason that Democrats get so up in arms about this whole idea that Democrats have to disavow violence, is because the only reason this violence is here is expressly because of [Trump]. He’s the only one perpetuating this violence.&#8221;
Cuomo was having none of it: &#8220;Yeah &#8230; no, he isn&#8217;t.&#8221;
In the wake of the second assassination attempt — and the predictable legacy media efforts to blame him for the tone of political rhetoric in the United States — Trump&#8217;s campaign published a list of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-team-brings-receipts-highlights-50-times-dems-media-used-extreme-rhetoric-about-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 50 times</a> that Democrats or left-wing pundits had used violent rhetoric either against him directly or in reference to him and his supporters.
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‘No He Isn’t’: Chris Cuomo Sticks It To Democrat Insisting Only Trump Perpetuates Violence

'No He Isn't': Chris Cuomo Sticks It To Democrat Insisting Only Trump Perpetuates Violence

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An elderly man in Hancock, Michigan, is in critical condition after what police are calling a “politically motivated” attack on Sunday.
The man, who has not been identified, was putting up a yard sign supporting President Donald Trump around 5:45 p.m., when a suspect driving a Honda ATV drove onto the man’s yard and ran him over with the vehicle, the Hancock Police Department said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=447121814974766&amp;set=pb.100090308541414.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>. The driver reportedly began to pull out the yard signs, and when the victim tried to put them back in the ground, the driver ran him over.
The victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, including a brain bleed, and is reportedly still in critical condition.
The 22-year-old suspect, whose name has not been released to the media, was found dead Tuesday in a home in Quincy Township with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Police received a message on Monday from an individual at the home who said they wanted to confess to a crime involving an ATV driver within the last 24 hours, and asked for authorities to &#8220;send someone to pick me up.&#8221;
When law enforcement arrived at the home, they found the man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Hancock Police Department said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=447190011634613&amp;set=pb.100090308541414.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> released Tuesday afternoon. Police obtained a search warrant for the home and recovered electronic devices that will be searched by forensic specialists as well as the ATV used in the crime and the clothing the suspect had been wearing.
The police department said additional details will be released as the investigation continues.
This was the third incident police believe to be politically motivated that occurred on Sunday alone. The first two involved vehicles that were vandalized, with the police department saying the suspect “appeared to target both Trump and Law Enforcement supporters.” It is unclear what about the vehicles indicated the drivers were either Trump or law enforcement supporters.
“Around 4:45 p.m., we had reports of vandalism to two vehicles where the tire valves were broken off and another one, they had smashed all the windows out and tried to do the same [act]&#8230;with the vehicle tires,” Sleeman told WLUC.
The ATV attack occurred less than 10 days after 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at former President Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. During that attack, the president was shot in the ear, attendee Corey Comperatore was killed while shielding his family from bullets, and two other Trump supporters were seriously injured.
One of the injured supporters, James Copenhaver, released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooting-victim-speaks-out-after-surviving-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> expressing condolences to Comperatore&#8217;s family and wishing the other injured supporter, David Dutch, a speedy recovery.
“First and foremost, me and my family continue to extend the most heartfelt condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore,” Copenhaver said.
“We also continue to offer our thoughts and prayers for the full and speedy recovery of Mr. David Dutch and for the full recovery of President Donald Trump,” he continued. “I am thankful for all of my amazing caregivers who have done a wonderful job saving my life and helping me on my road to recovery. Recovery will be slow, but steady.”
This piece has been updated to include additional information.

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In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, radio host Charlemagne tha God suggested that Trump was “solely responsible for creating this environment of political violence.”
On Saturday, a shooter attempted to kill Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and missed murdering him by inches because Trump had turned his head a moment before the shot rang out and struck his right ear.
“Remember when Trump posted pictures of (President Joe) Biden looking like he’s bound and hogtied on his social media?” the radio host asked. “Donald Trump, in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, told his followers to fight, and that led to an attempted coup of this country, and some of his followers did bring guns and ammunition to D.C. for that purpose. They did storm the Capitol; they were chanting to hang Mike Pence because he wouldn’t alter the election results. That happened. And it happened because of Donald Trump.”
“I’m not even going to go down the rabbit hole of how many times Donald Trump has incited political violence or co-signed political violence or suggested political violence,” he continued. “I’ll give you a couple that come to mind. You remember when the now governor of Montana — I believe it was Montana &#8212; he was running for Congress and he body-slammed a reporter and got charged with assault, and Donald Trump said, ‘He is my type?’ Is that not encouraging violence? Remember when Donald Trump suggested that, you know, Second Amendment advocates assassinate Hillary Clinton?”
“So (House Speaker) Mike Johnson and (vice-presidential nominee) JD Vance, please don’t act like Donald Trump is not solely responsible for creating this environment of political violence that he’s not even safe from,” he concluded.
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On June 8, President Joe Biden, in a widely <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/08/congress/defiant-biden-tells-donors-were-done-with-the-debate-00166834">reported</a> remark, told donors, “I have one job and that&#8217;s to beat Donald Trump. &#8230; So, we&#8217;re done talking about the debate, it&#8217;s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
As far back as the Ronald Reagan presidency, Democrats used extreme language to attack Reagan, likening him to Hitler in the same manner as today’s Democrats have used the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGr9UEv5hw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hitlerian</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/biden-trump-unified-reich-nazi-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparison</a> to attack Trump.
As the American Enterprise Institute <a href="https://www.aei.org/articles/the-liberal-misappropriation-of-a-conservative-president/">recalled</a>, “Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was ‘trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.’ The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall.”

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Less than 24 hours after a failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump — which left one bystander dead and three others, including Trump, injured — The Atlantic&#8217;s David Frum blamed the violence on the former president and his supporters.
&#8220;The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator,&#8221; blared the headline, and on the off-chance anyone missed the intended tone of the piece, a subhead followed: &#8220;Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.&#8221;
Frum&#8217;s premise was that Trump was a fascist and because &#8220;fascism feasts on violence,&#8221; the former president was simply getting a taste of that which he had fostered.
Addressing the attack on Trump, which took place on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, as &#8220;a horror and an outrage,&#8221; Frum went on to invoke history to quickly forget the name of the man who would commit such a despicable act. But first he blamed the victim, writing,&#8221;Now the bloodshed that Trump has done so much to incite against others has touched him as well.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the 2024 election,&#8221; the political commentator continued, returning to his original premise. &#8220;Fascist movements are secular religions. Like all religions, they offer martyrs as their proof of truth. The Mussolini movement in Italy built imposing monuments to its fallen comrades. The Trump movement now improves on that: The leader himself will be the martyr in chief, his own blood the basis for his bid for power and vengeance.&#8221;
Frum ventured further in the same vein, ultimately concluding that &#8220;the gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy.&#8221;
Critics were not impressed with Frum&#8217;s take — and even less impressed with his timing — as they responded via X.
&#8220;David Frum needs help. In every way,&#8221; Joe Concha commented.
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David Frum needs help. In every way. <a href="https://t.co/iwLuEfvth0">https://t.co/iwLuEfvth0</a>
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1812596083748729057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They are still trying to get Trump killed,&#8221; The Blaze&#8217;s Auron McIntyre added.
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They are still trying to get Trump killed <a href="https://t.co/xMZNwsYrp2">https://t.co/xMZNwsYrp2</a>
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1812539711602196811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Former Bush 43 political appointees with Trump derangement are some of the most pathetic, delusional, and self-righteous people in politics. Blaming Trump and his family for his near assassination? @davidfrum definitely wins the trophy with this one. Truly a douche bag,&#8221; Mike Davis posted.
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Former Bush 43 political appointees with Trump derangement are some of the most pathetic, delusional, and self-righteous people in politics.
Blaming Trump and his family for his near assassination?<a href="https://twitter.com/davidfrum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidfrum</a> definitely wins the trophy with this one.
Truly a douche bag. <a href="https://t.co/f8kCb1h6v6">pic.twitter.com/f8kCb1h6v6</a>
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1812582242532921812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Megan Basham added, &#8220;You literally just published an essay saying Trump had it coming less than 24 hours after an assassin missed taking Trump&#8217;s life by millimeters. People are disgusted by what you wrote in @TheAtlantic because it was disgusting. You are not the victim here. Sit down.&#8221;
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You literally just published an essay saying Trump had it coming less than 24 hours after an assassin missed taking Trump&#8217;s life by millimeters. People are disgusted by what you wrote in <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAtlantic</a> because it was disgusting. You are not the victim here. Sit down. <a href="https://t.co/FfwcOd6p3q">https://t.co/FfwcOd6p3q</a>
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1812640802037702821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘The Gunman And The Would-Be Dictator’: The Atlantic Says Trump ‘Had It Coming’ Less Than 24 Hours After Assassination Attempt

'The Gunman And The Would-Be Dictator': The Atlantic Says Trump 'Had It Coming' Less Than 24 Hours After Assassination Attempt

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