Trump is well ahead, may be assassinated but the US voting system is extremely fragile, Don DeBar

1 month ago
208

Don DeBar, journalist, Trump will probably win the US presidential election, if he survives assassination. Election fraud, Trump support, and why people are trying to assassinate Trump.

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/10/10/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-211/

How Democrats relentlessly ratcheted up violent rhetoric against Trump before assassination attempt — comparing him to Hitler Democrats’ rhetoric stoking fear and hatred against former President Donald Trump — including repeated comparisons to Adolf Hitler — is coming into a harsh new light following the assassination attempt against him on Saturday. Trump’s political opponents have long used incendiary language in response to his more controversial statements — commonly casting him as a cartoon villain hellbent on bringing about the end of democracy itself. Their divisive statements frequently include tossing around words like “dictator” or making overt references to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany. Republicans now blame this very rhetoric for stoking the assassination attempt that got Trump shot and left a hero firefighter dead and two others critically wounded. Former President Trump was left bloodied by a sniper’s bullet Saturday, and outrage has begun to stir as Democrats’ past statements linking him to Hitler are seen in new light. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is vying to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority leader, wrote on X, “Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist. They’ve compared him to Hitler. This isn’t some unfortunate incident, this was an assassination attempt by a madman inspired by the rhetoric of the radical left.” Just last Monday, President Biden himself said it’s “time to put Trump in a bullseye” in a now-wince-inducing quote from a private call with hundreds of democratic donors, Politico reported at the time. The unfortunate wording brought to mind remarks NY Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman made last November in an MSNBC interview with former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, saying Trump should be “eliminated” over his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. “It is just unquestionable at this point that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated,” the District 10 representative said. Goldman later walked back his remarks in a post on X, saying he doesn’t condone “political violence.” The official Biden-Harris HQ account also made a post on X in December with the heading “Trump Parrots Hitler” featuring a series of images of Trump and Hitler’s faces juxtaposed with quotes from each, which the campaign alleged were similar. Casually comparing the former president to history’s greatest monster was apparently also a favorite pastime inside the Biden White House. Young staffers including aides to President Biden have reportedly taken to calling Trump “Hitler Pig” behind closed doors.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on how ineffective UN is. BRICS – Saudis to join. Attempt to defeat Russia a ‘suicidal escapade’, Lavrov warns Ukraine and the West Ukraine’s hope of defeating Russia on the battlefield is senseless given that Moscow holds nuclear weapons and any effort by the NATO alliance to keep aiding Kyiv will prove to be a “suicidal escapade”, Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs told the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Sergey Lavrov said criticism of Russia’s “special operation” based on the UN Charter and Ukraine’s territorial integrity, ignored the fact that the UN’s founding document also “declares the obligation to respect the principles of the equality and self-determination of peoples”, he said, arguing that this had after all been the basis for ongoing decolonisation efforts. “The rights of Russians and those that feel they are part of Russian culture following the coup d’etat in Kyiv have methodically been exterminated,” he declared, and this poses a threat to Russian and wider European security. Mr. Lavrov said President Vladimir Putin had a “realistic settlement plan” and was prepared to negotiate, blaming the West for sabotaging previous attempts. He said the attempt by the Washington-London-Brussels axis to defeat Russia was nullifying the UN’s attempts to enhance global cooperation through agreements such as Sunday’s Pact for the Future – which Russia refused to back – and was “blocking the functioning of the entire system of global governance, including the Security Council.” “That’s not something we chose and we’re not responsible for the consequences of this dangerous course,” he added.

Loading comments...