Trump Mystery Solved!

Who was behind the assassination attempt? A cloud of witnesses reveals the answer.

American voters believe, by a wide margin, that the extraordinarily harsh and terrifying rhetoric President Joe Biden and his supporters have directed against Donald Trump “led to” the assassination attempt against the former president in Pennsylvania in mid-July, according to a national public opinion poll.

By almost two to one, likely voters surveyed by the Rasmussen polling group said they agree with the following statement: “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” the Crime Prevention Research Center reports:

Except for liberals, likely American voters of all categories think the rhetoric of Biden’s campaign that Trump is “an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs” led to Trump’s attempted assassination. In fact, overall likely voters by an almost 2-to-1 margin (61%-to-31%) agree. Even Democrats believe by a 46%-to-43% margin that this rhetoric led to the attempted assassination. Generally, those with lower incomes and less education were more likely to agree that the rhetoric caused the attack.

Here is a graphic from the Crime Prevention Research Center illustrating the results of the poll:

It is worth noting that these heightened denunciations of Trump arrived after five years of similar attacks, some of which included explicit advocacy of assassination emanating from celebrity cranks such as comedienne Kathy Griffin and sistercomediennesinger Madonna.

The Biden-era Democrats, however, crossed the line into universal, implicit advocacy of assassination by the repetitive use of the word existential to convey the thought of Trump as murderous while maintaining deniability on their part.

The New York Times exemplified this rhetorical sleight-of-hand:

In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists.

Claiming that someone is a threat to people’s very existence—indicated by the separation of the reference to democracy and the subsequent elimination of the word in most repetitions—characterizes that person as a mass murderer. That suggests that the most extreme measures are jusified in response.

Thus murder becomes simple self-defense.

That campaign of homicidal hatred was outrageous, dishonorable, and utterly unjustifiable. It is neither happenstance nor coincidence that this years-long torrent of abuse culminated in an assassination attempt.

The Biden-era description of Trump as an “existential threat” should go down in history as the most vicious, brutal, irresponsible, and contemptible political attack in American history.