Christopher Cillizza, former CNN political analyst, has broken away from those who are still part of his former network and put out an absolutely vicious rebuke of the individuals there who are trying to downplay the second assassination attempt made against former President Donald Trump. To say this man didn’t hold his tongue would be an understatement. He spared the feelings of no one and that’s exactly the kind of breath of fresh air the current media status quo desperately needs at this moment in our nation’s history.
There have now been two assassination attempts on the life of the former president in just a span of 90 days. On Sunday, a man by the name of Ryan Wesley Routh, managed to somehow get information concerning the whereabouts of Trump — which were not made public — and open fire on him while he was playing a round of golf at his own club. The former president has come out and stated that Routh, 58, was likely inspired to carry out this assault against him by the “inflammatory language” of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
“I think it is so stupid and counterproductive to spend time trying to downplay the fact that the guy, two times there have been people trying to kill him over the last 90 days,” Cillizza went on to say , in his blazing smackdown of those trying to minimize these assassination attempts. He then pointed out that, regardless of one’s political party, violence should not ever be a means to accomplish political ends. “We are not a country in which political violence can be condoned. And just because Donald Trump helped incite January 6th does not make two rights, two wrongs equally right.”
“It does not matter if it’s Democrat or Republican or Independent or Green or Libertarian. It should not matter that it is Donald Trump because we believe that this is not a good thing or at least we should,” he stated, according to Trending Politics News. “The way that you defeat someone who you disagree with politically is you go vote. You beat them at the ballot box.”
Cillizza was equally critical of efforts to minimize the severity of the assassination attempts. He called out those who dismissed the incidents, saying that such attitudes were dragging the political discourse in the U.S. down to dangerous levels. “Once we start saying, well yeah, I mean it might have been a piece of glass, or he didn’t even get shot, we are bringing ourselves way down, way down to a place that we don’t want to be as a nation.”
“You beat him at the ballot box. You don’t beat him by violence or the threat of violence. That’s it.” Cillizza’s criticism comes at a critical time as the nation heads toward another contentious election, with Trump once again at the center of the political arena.
“Secret Service agents responded to a potential threat near the perimeter fence after spotting a rifle barrel, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. The suspect, who was hiding in nearby bushes, fled in a vehicle but was later apprehended on the highway. Identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, owner of a small construction business in Hawaii, he had previously expressed criticism of Trump and support for Ukraine on social media platforms. Routh was positioned 300 to 500 yards from Trump at the time of the incident. Authorities discovered an AK-47-style rifle, a GoPro camera, and several backpacks at the scene where Routh was initially located,” the article concluded.
Mainstream media outlets have been painting up Trump to be the villain of the story from the very beginning of his political career. How many times have leftists, inside and outside of the media, referred to him as Adolf Hitler, despite not a single policy of his looking anything like the radical progressivism of the Nazi regime? It is a comparison made over and over again.
You can’t repeatedly lie about someone for years on end, referring to them as the biggest threat and danger to democracy in the world and not expect a few folks with scrambled brains to crack like an egg and try to make an omelet out of the former president.
It’s time for the media to cop to it its part in this and to beg forgiveness from the American people for refusing to do their job and instead push deadly, divisive propaganda.
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