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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 💥 Pager explosions injure thousands of Hezbollah terrorists. Pagers carried by Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine and injuring nearly 2,800. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was also injured by his exploding pager, evidencing Iran's direct involvement with the group beyond just providing financial support. The terrorist group has vowed revenge on Israel, which is suspected of being behind the attack. | 📺 Chris Cuomo attacked the media over the latest Trump assassination attempt. NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo, after speaking with Donald Trump on the phone, criticized the American media for downplaying the second assassination attempt against the former president. This marks another instance of Cuomo, once a vocally anti-GOP anchor on CNN, shifting toward a more sympathetic stance on Republicans and Trump. | 🙏 Trump to visit a Polish shrine as he makes a play for Catholics. Former President Donald Trump will visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa this weekend, reportedly with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Trump's visit marks the first time a presidential candidate has visited the shrine in the 21st century and comes just weeks after his campaign announced a "Catholics for Trump" initiative. | 🚔 Diddy was taken into FBI custody in New York. The disgraced music mogul Sean Combs, or Diddy, was arrested Monday night after a grand jury indictment that connected Combs with alleged sex trafficking and other offenses. This follows multiple additional lawsuits accusing him of abuse and trafficking, including one from his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed The New York Times for platforming "propaganda" from a Hamas terrorist. Kamala Harris redirected a question alluding to Donald Trump's second assassination attempt to Project 2025 and the LGBT community. Music producer Pharrell Williams refused to endorse a presidential candidate, telling other celebrities to "shut up," adding, "Nobody asked you." Fox News' Peter Doocy called out Karine Jean-Pierre for continuing to use the word "threat" to describe Donald Trump.
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| | | MEDIA | The Democratic rhetoric trying to get Trump killed | | Democrats have called Donald Trump a threat to democracy so frequently that Trump is now blaming them for the assassination attempts against him The media has done the same thing while purporting to be neutral Much of the media blames Trump for driving people to want to kill him
| The story | In the few days since former President Donald Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt, he and many others have continued to shed light on the inflammatory rhetoric raising the temperature in the country. | When he was nearly killed two months ago, there was a brief moment of reflection from the mainstream media about whether their coverage of Donald Trump had been unnecessarily provocative. However, that moment passed, and left-wing politicians and pundits continued labeling Trump a threat to the republic and saying that democracy would end if he is re-elected. | While some on the left decry the "danger" of language as an excuse to, for instance, suppress conservative speakers on university campuses and social media, much of the talk from the media and politicians is demonstrably dangerous. | Two individuals, both Democratic donors who loathed Trump, had been driven to the point of attempting to murder him. And the most recent shooter had parroted mainstream media and Biden-Harris talking points. | It is worth examining the media and political class' long record of using extreme language to assess Trump's claims that Democratic rhetoric has contributed to the attempts on his life. | Democrats' incendiary language | In December, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign posted a video to Facebook titled: "It's simple: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms." She also posted on July 4 that, "It's on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses." | President Joe Biden has also made his fair share of escalatory comments about his Republican opponent. While he has called Trump a threat to the country for years, more recently, he was caught telling donors on a private call that "it's time to put Trump in a bullseye." | Biden also remarked that Trump is an existential threat to the nation and said Trump and "MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." This is some of the most radical language used to describe nearly half the country in modern American history. | Harris' running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), has made similar claims, referring to Trump supporters as "fascists" and calling them a "threat to democracy." | In what was perhaps a Freudian slip, Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) lamented that "Donald Trump needs to be shot," then quickly corrected herself to say "stopped." | Former House Speaker and Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently called Donald Trump a "threat to our democracy of a kind that we have not seen." Pelosi often does not even refer to Donald Trump by his name, as if he is somebody akin to Voldemort. | In total, there have been dozens of instances of members of Congress declaring that Trump is a "threat to our democracy." | When America's political class so nonchalantly refers to Trump in this manner, it is no wonder that normal Democrat supporters are becoming radicalized, and the radicals are now willing to use violence. | The media's role | Perhaps even more significant than politicians demonizing Trump — which is expected from his political opposition — is the supposedly objective news media echoing Democratic talking points about him for nearly a decade. | Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), criticized the media's handling and double standards surrounding the assassination attempts on Trump, describing the coverage as "moral blackmail." | Vance pointed out that if a prominent Republican had tried to assassinate a Democratic official, the media and Democrats would respond with outrage. Yet, in the case of Donald Trump, the media's reaction has been dismissive. | NBC News, for instance, labeled the assassination attempt a mere "golf club incident," and a major Ohio newspaper published a letter to the editor claiming Trump brought his assassination attempts on himself. | Outlets like PBS quickly shifted focus away from the attempt on Trump's life, spending minimal time on the incident and instead framing him and Vance as the true danger, accusing them of inciting bomb threats in Springfield, OH, over their remarks about migrants allegedly eating pet cats. | The bomb threats, according to the Ohio governor, have all been hoaxes. | The media, for years, has been engaging in an effort to paint Trump and his allies as instigators of violence and thus cannot be victims of the left's charged rhetoric. When a Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporter, for example, attempted to murder Senate Republicans in 2018 while yelling, "This is for health care," the story was quickly forgotten since left-wing speech can supposedly never be inflammatory. | Why it matters | The media's treatment of assassination attempts on Donald Trump underscores a troubling double standard that has significant implications for American politics and political discourse. When violence is selectively downplayed or excused based on political affiliation, it erodes public trust in the media and further polarizes the nation. | By amplifying rhetoric that paints Trump and his supporters as instigators of violence, the media simply fuels division instead of taking Republican concerns seriously to foster healthy debate. | This behavior from Democrat politicians and the media not only deepens political divides but also weakens the integrity of the American political system and society more broadly. | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Should Trump continue making public appearances despite assassination threats?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter. | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Who bears responsibility for the latest assassination attempt? | 🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Secret Service (178) | 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ FBI (246) | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Other (311) | Secret Service: "It's absurd to claim he has the highest level of protection when the guy was able to be in his sniper nest undisturbed!" — Fred FBI: "They had him on their radar." — Anonymous Other: "The leftist rhetoric and media put a target on his head." — Jennie Other: "The assassin and those that created and empowered him." — Pede Other: "I need the option of "All of the above," to include the CIA and every Intelligence department or agency." — Vicki | | | | 735 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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