Democrats Shouldn’t Be Surprised by Trump’s Would-Be Assassins
16th September 2024
What happens when you continually demonize someone as “Hitler,” insist that he is “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy?”
Why, you get chaps like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to kill Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, two months ago. Yesterday, Crooks was joined by Ryan Wesley Routh, a self-described “revolutionary.” Routh who showed up at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach with an AK-style rifle and a GoPro video camera. The Secret Service espied him in the underbrush a few hundred yards from President Trump. He fled the scene after the agents opened fire on him but was soon apprehended by the local police.
A couple hours after that “protective incident,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries posted this incitement on X:
Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025.
We must stop them.
Stop them how, exactly, Hakeem?