After the assassination attempt against former President Trump, which tragically resulted in the death of a rally attendee, Mukilteo Council President Louis Harris wrote on his Facebook page: “While Trump is a toxic person, there is no justification to kill him like what was attempted that day. What’s worse is his rhetoric caused one of his supporters to be killed. I have no sympathy for the man and won’t give him an inch of compassion.”
Harris explicitly blames Trump: “his rhetoric caused one of his supporters to be killed.”
It is shocking to blame Trump, who is one of the victims, for the death of another person.
Louis Harris is an elected official. Does he really want to set the precedent of blaming elected officials (current or former) when another person commits a terrible crime?
Why would Harris say such a shocking thing? My guess is that Harris, like many people, has an extremely distorted view of Trump.
What else could prompt Harris to say something so awful as that he has no sympathy or compassion for someone who just came within an inch of being assassinated?
If you have learned about Trump from the media—even from media sources that you might think are neutral, like NPR or AP—you, too, likely have a distorted view of Trump.
For example, do you think Trump said there are “fine people on both sides,” with the two sides being BLM protestors versus white supremacists and neo-Nazis? If you do, your media sources have lied to you.
Trump actually said there were fine people on both sides of the debate over whether to take down statues. In his comment, he explicitly said he was not talking about “neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally”—but dishonest media people and Democrat officials, including Joe Biden, have lied to you about this quote for years.
Another example: Do you think Trump said he will be a “dictator from day one”?
Again, you have been lied to. Trump actually joked that he wouldn’t be a dictator “other than day one,” in order to quickly undo terrible Biden policies regarding the open border and other things. In other words, Trump will issue executive orders to close the border, just as Biden issued executive orders in his early days to open it.
Do you think Trump threatened a “bloodbath” if he is not elected? Play the clip, and you will see he means it will cause an economic bloodbath for the auto industry—not that he is calling for his supporters to go out and kill people, as the media have been leading you to think.
I could go on and on with instances where media and the Democrats have lied about Trump.
I urge you to look up the full videos of these examples. Do not just watch a short clip. Watch enough (a few minutes), to get the context of the conversation and the tone Trump uses.
I grant that Trump can have an imprecise way of speaking that is simultaneously rambling and abbreviated, but when you watch a video of reasonable length, you can grasp what he means and the tone he is conveying.
You should be able to trust your media sources to be honest with you. They should not deliberately distort Trump’s meaning and intent the way they do.
Ask yourself: If they are lying to you about Trump, what else are they lying about?
If you have been misled about even one of the examples I cited, you should stop listening to that media source.
We know they’ve also lied about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
You are being manipulated. You deserve to know the truth, about our political candidates and about many issues facing us today.
Even after the assassination attempt aired live on TV, prominent media figures (among them Joy Reid of MSNBC) have suggested that it was staged. This is insane. A man was killed, and two other spectators were seriously injured.
Again, if the media is willing to advance a position so counter to known reality, ask yourself what else they are lying about.
I hope you will not, like Louis Harris, blame a political figure who is the victim in a terrible crime.
I hope you will not become so blinded by partisan hatred that you say you have no compassion for the victim of an attempted assassination, just because he is of the other political party.
I hope you will not continue to listen to media figures who have lied to you repeatedly.
Sharon Damoff, Mukilteo
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One Response
Sharon, what executive order did Biden sign “to open” the border? If you’ve been paying attention, Biden recently passed an executive order that “bars migrants who cross the Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum”. This was something that Trump and many Republicans fought against, even though it’s exactly what they want, because their strategy is to blame Biden for a problem that has existed since Bush. Sharon, it sounds like you’re drinking a whole lot of the Kool-Aid yourself.