JD Vance blamed Democrats on Monday for a second possible assassination attempt on Donald Trump, saying: "The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months." He added: "I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebody's gonna get hurt by it, and it's gonna destroy this country." read more
Blaming immigrants for eating pets was an American urban legend years before Donald Trump spread the rumor about Haitians in Ohio. Following the pattern of other urban legends, such as the "rat in the Coke bottle" and the "Vanishing Hitchhiker," the legend that newly settled immigrants are eating dogs and cats has been around for decades.
A pretty long story about a thing that didn't happen.
Ryan Wesley Routh put his enmity toward Donald Trump " the man he once supported but then dismissed as an "idiot," a "buffoon" and a "fool"-- at the center of a rambling and fanciful worldview that also fixated on Ukraine, Taiwan, North Korea, and what he called the "end of humanity." read more
New Hampshire's Libertarian Party shared, then deleted, a message on social media praising as "an American hero" anyone who were to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris. read more
Virginia man charged with threatening to kill Kamala Harris
Frank Carillo of Winchester, Virginia, posted a series of violent threats about the vice president last month using an alias on a conservative social media site, authorities said.
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There were more stories but I stopped at these:
Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car
www.cnbc.com
Florida man arrested after allegedly making death threats against Biden
www.cbsnews.com
Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Biden in online video
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Billings man charged with making threats to kill U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, threats against President Joe Biden
www.justice.gov
Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant
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Wichita man who threatened to kill President Biden sentenced to 21 months in jail
kansasreflector.com
Michigan man charged with threatening to kill Biden, Harris, officials in X posts
thehill.com
FTA: "Remember when Trump defended his followers for shouting, "hang Mike Pence"? Vance apparently doesn't."
Apparently Vance also doesn't remember this Trump supporter either:
Jan. 6 defendant arrested near Obama's home had guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his vanwww.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2023
A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a "Make Space Great Again" hat had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested Thursday near former President Barack Obama's home, federal authorities said Friday.
Taranto showed up at Obama's residence on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted screenshots on his Truth Social platform that featured a purported address for Obama's home in Washington. Taranto's account reposted Trump's post.
"We got these losers surrounded!" Taranto wrote on Telegram yesterday. "See you in hell, Podesta's and Obama's!"
Vance also seems to have forgotten Paul Pelosi's attacker, who was really looking for Nancy but she wasn't home at the time, but how Vance could have forgotten about him is unclear since Trump brought him just the other day in a stump speech.
As you may know by now I take an interest in PA politics, especially stories from Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, and because of that interest I dug into this story a little more:
Local GOP lawmaker pushes back on Trump's attacks on Haitians in Charleroi, PA
Donald Trump falsely accused Haitian immigrants of eating pets in an Ohio town. Now, a Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker is calling out Trump's comments about Charleroi's immigrant community.
keystonenewsroom.com
Turmoil erupts in Pennsylvania town after Trump spreads false claims about Haitians there
www.rawstory.com
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, residents remain divided on impact of immigrant influx
www.cbsnews.com
Another good article on the topic:
Immigrants-eat-pets trope is a century-old stereotype and 'very old racism'www.usatoday.com
When May-lee Chai was in high school in the early 1980s, a Chinese restaurant finally opened in the small South Dakota town where her family lived.
"The food was delicious!" remembered Chai, now a creative writing professor at San Francisco State University.
But when her parents invited friends to lunch there, they always politely declined. Rumor was they'd be served stray cats and dogs.
Though the rumor was totally false, the owners, who had fled from the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, eventually had to sell their business and move away, Chai told USA TODAY.
Despite supposedly serving in the Ukraine foreign legion ...
"We saw the barrel" was the same explanation given in the movie Shooter for how they supposedly noticed him
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Supposedly is the operative word:
A representative from Ukraine's foreign legion confirmed with CNN that Routh had contacted them several times but said he was never part of the military unit in which overseas volunteers fight.www.cnn.com
Oleksandr Shaguri, an officer of the Foreigners Coordination Department of the Land Forces Command, told CNN over the phone that "the best way to describe his messages is--delusional ideas."
"He was offering us large numbers of recruits from different countries but it was obvious to us his offers were not realistic. We didn't even answer, there was nothing to answer to. He was never part of the Legion and didn't cooperate with us in any way."
A number of these wanna be assassins are against politicians in both parties. The PA shooter just wanted to make a name for himself. He would have tried to kill Biden if he had shown up at the Butler, PA farm show instead of Trump. I just researched a bunch of men who threatened Biden and/or Harris. Some of them threatened other politicians too. One of them included Mitch McConnell on his list with several Democrats. Did he wanna kill Mitch because he hates all pols or because Trump dislikes Mitch? Unclear.