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Republican nominee for president Donald Trump has so far survived at least three suspected assassination plots, including two from American citizens and one from an Iranian operative. Some Republicans responded to these threats by accusing Democrats and left-leaning media outlets of fueling them through their coverage of the former president, although Trump himself has been noted for similar rhetoric.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman reviews the arguments of conservative commentators and then compares those arguments against the facts of the assassination attempts against Donald Trump.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
The guy who actually grazed Trump’s ear was a registered Republican. The guy who was on Trump’s golf course and was caught (thankfully before he even fired his gun) voted for Trump in 2016, and then, feeling as though Trump had gotten away from the right-wingism that he wanted, was supporting Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy in 2024. So this gets me to the use of “they.”
We’ve heard it from JD Vance. We heard it after the second assassination attempt from Republican senator Tommy Tuberville. We’ve heard it in so many different contexts. “They” are violent. “They” tried to kill Donald Trump. It’s used by Republicans, and yet it’s Republicans who tried to kill Donald Trump.
So why do they [Republicans] keep saying that “they” [Democrats] do it? Because they want to wrap it all up in the same discussion, to make it seem as though those that are prosecuting Trump and those that impeach Trump, those that voted against Trump, those that ran against Trump, and yes, even those who tried to kill Trump, [as if] it’s all the same “they,” and it doesn’t work, because it’s simply not true.
