The radical left seem to completely own the corner market on hypocrisy, a point made abundantly clear by MSNBC host Joy Reid, who had the intestinal fortitude to actually blame former President Donald Trump for the assassination attempt that was made on his life on Saturday during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was shot through the upper part of his right ear. One individual in the audience was killed and several others injured before the gunman was dispatched by snipers.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we call “victim blaming.” Imagine telling a rape victim she deserved what she got because she was wearing revealing clothing. Or that it’s her fault she was raped because she was flirtatious with the rapist at a bar. Same deal here.
Folks on the left are always accusing other people of victim blaming, but of course, when they engage in it, and the person they’re slamming is Trump, it’s totally fine.
Check out the details from Fox News:
MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested on-air Monday that former President Trump bore the “consequences” of “promoting” violence during a discussion about the assassination attempt over the weekend.
Reid, who joined MSNBC’s live coverage in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, made the comment after Rachel Maddow said she hopes a level of “sobriety” will emerge surrounding political violence, calling it “no freaking joke” and “nothing that anybody should play with, ever.” She, too, seemed to imply Trump reaped the whirlwind.
“Violence, among everything else, is very unpredictable. Once it’s part of your political system, you never know which direction it’s going to go,” Maddow commented. “Nobody can harness it in one direction only, it doesn’t work that way.”
Reid agreed and proceeded to relay the “one time” in her career that she felt afraid on the job, at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, when armed men were “pacing” near her booth in a “menacing” manner to “send a message.”
Reid then compared her own experience to various reports of voter intimidation during the 2022 midterm elections where an organization of armed individuals called Clean Elections USA were given an order to remain at minimum 250 feet from specific polling locations in the state of Arizona after complaints were made that people were carrying guns and wearing masks that intimidated those showing up to cast their ballots.
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“I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,” Reid added. “‘If you don’t vote the right way, I’m here with this gun.'”
“The idea of political violence that we’ve been nursing really since then, is so dangerous,” she stated. “It’s so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it.”
Critics took to social media platform X to slam Reid for essentially communicating that Trump got what was coming to him.
Reid’s comments on MSNBC are particularly surprising after the network benched its staunchly anti-Trump show “Morning Joe” in the aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt. A person familiar with the decision told CNN that the show was replaced with live programming, in part, over fear that one of the show’s many guests over a 4-hour broadcast “might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.”
I think the vast majority of the country would say the exact opposite of Reid, noting that Trump has not done or said anything to justify someone trying to murder him in cold blood. Here’s the kicker, I’d say the same thing about Biden. As much as I disagree with him politically and dislike him as a person, I’d be furious if someone tried to assassinate him. That’s not the right course of action. He’s a human being made in the image of God and as such deserves his right to life.
Unfortunately, the radical left is so consumed by their ideology that they’ve lost much of their humanity.
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