Trump Derangement Syndrome

Imagine being taken off the airwaves because your bosses are worried you might gloat over an attempted murder. That, reportedly, has been the fate of pundits on MSNBC’s maddeningly woke talk show, Morning Joe. It’s been pulled from the air today, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, allegedly out of fear that a guest might make an ‘inappropriate’ comment about the shooting. CNN has the lowdown. It reports that MSNBC benched its best-known show, despite the ‘seismic’ events of the past 48 hours, as a pre-emptive strike against the possibility that one of the ‘stable of two-dozen-plus guests’ would say something nuts about the violence visited on Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. just committed a m*rd*r on live TV 🤣pic.twitter.com/qpUltM7FEN

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2024

The agency has sacrificed its basic mission on the altar of DEI.

It was a shot heard around the world.

On Saturday, a gunman whom the FBI has identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a burst of rifle shots at former president Donald Trump, grazing his ear and nearly killing him. The attempted assassination is an historic, and perilous, moment. We’ll get commentaries and investigations, and the government will announce reforms.

But amid all the chaos weaves the thread of another story, one that reveals a mounting problem in our political life. A surprising number of the Secret Service agents protecting the former president were women. And, according to video recordings of the scene, many did not acquit themselves favorably.

h/t Mauser

The rooftop where a shooter positioned himself before nearly assassinating former President Donald Trump Saturday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania was identified as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, according to a report.

Two sources “familiar with the agency’s operations” told NBC News that the Secret Service was aware of the risks associated with the rooftop, which tops a glass research company next to the Butler Farm Show where the rally was taking place.

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🚨 Watch the real time assassination attempt on Trump from different angles. With countdown from footage of people warning authorities about the shooter to Trump being whisked away. pic.twitter.com/iJTbRNlCEw

— MilkBarTV (@TheMilkBarTV) July 15, 2024

h/t Patti Jo

Matt Taibbi, as he so often does, hit the nail on the head with his Substack post calling the past eight years a “slow-motion assassination” of Donald Trump. The escalating rhetoric, the lawfare campaign, the comparisons to Hitler (and calling him “worse than Hitler), and the escalating panic that despite their legal and illegal campaign to destroy him he has become the likely winner of the 2024 election.

Trump needs hood protection instead of Secret Service.pic.twitter.com/f2CgJxv0NH

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 15, 2024

h/t DS

BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 News uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief and injured two others in the crowd.

h/t Patti Jo

For white urban and suburban ‘Wine Moms,’ the Internet serves the all-important cause of virtue signalling through Trump hatred.

My interest in politics began way before Trump. In fact it goes back at least to Election Day 1964. I had just turned eight. Somehow I had decided that I preferred Barry Goldwater to Lyndon Johnson. That evening I lay in bed and watched the election results on the tiny little TV set beside my bed. (Tiny little TV sets were a thing then.) It became obvious very early in the evening that LBJ would, as predicted, be winning by a landslide, and my mother yelled up to me from downstairs and told me that it was over and that it was time for me to turn off the TV and go to sleep already. But I couldn’t accept that LBJ had won. I kept watching. I guess I finally conked out with the TV on.

Donald Trump’s more deranged critics are so focused on tone and language that they are either dismissing the assassination attempt against him or they are outright blaming him for the attack. As regrettable as the Saturday shooting at the Trump rally was, his critics seem to think, what’s truly disturbing is the “rhetoric” that characterizes the U.S. presidential campaign.

On CNN this morning, host Kasie Hunt described the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in blunt, truthful terms as:

“A massive failure by the Secret Service.”

Moments later, when panelist Elliott Williams, in the context of a discussion of unverified information on social media, made mention of people floating the notion of an “inside job,” Hunt shut him down, saying:

“We don’t want to get into that.”

When a bullet flew by Donald Trump’s ear at a speed near 2,000mph, it was not clear to Doug Mills, who was standing a few feet away taking photographs, that he had just captured one of the most remarkable images of the 21st century.

There are so many questions about how it was possible for a gunman to nearly assassinate former President Donald Trump late Saturday afternoon. Questions have been raised over who has jurisdiction over the building that the shooter was perched on, but it is widely agreed that there weren’t enough Secret Service resources protecting President Trump. This failure will be subjected to intense scrutiny for many, many months.

New extended video shows the shooter Thomas Crooks crawling into position on the rooftop as President Trump is speaking.pic.twitter.com/gQZ1mCgQWf

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 15, 2024

h/t DS & Richard

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The FBI said Sunday that investigators have not yet identified any ideology fueling the gunman who fired at former president Donald Trump at a packed campaign rally, and they believe he carried out the horrifying assassination attempt on his own.

This is "play dumb" week for the media and the top Democrat brainwashers.

They know who propagandizes their base into believing the entire Hoax Mesh Network they have created.

They know the massive mental illness it is creating.

They know open borders and the rest of their… https://t.co/yFxM0MdsH9

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 15, 2024

MSNBC pulled its left-leaning talk show “Morning Joe” from the air on Monday following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend.

The progressive show, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, will not air Monday morning and will resume Tuesday, despite the start of the Republican National Convention.

A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the show was pulled to prevent one of its dozens of guests from making an inappropriate comment while live that could paint the show and network in a bad light.

A UBC professor is in hot water after posting a tweet that appeared to celebrate the assassination attempt of former U.S. president Donald Trump, and another which lamented its failure.

Make Dr. Karen Pinder famous. She tweeted "Damn, so close. Too bad." She then deleted her account after enormous blowback. Unfortunately for this bitch, the Internet is forever. https://t.co/nyNcrMiPzb pic.twitter.com/3z4PCaPDwj

— LivePDDave 🇺🇸 (@LivePDDave1) July 14, 2024

A federal judge dismissed in its entirety the classified documents case against former President Donald J. Trump on Monday, ruling that the appointment of the special counsel, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution.

In a stunning ruling, the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, found that because Mr. Smith had not been named to the post of special counsel by the president or confirmed by the Senate, his appointment was in violation of the appointments clause of the Constitution.

The ruling by Judge Cannon, who was put on the bench by Mr. Trump, flew in the face of previous court decisions reaching back to the Watergate era that upheld the legality of the ways in which independent prosecutors have been named. And in a single swoop, it removed a major legal threat against Mr. Trump on the first day of the Republican National Convention, where he is set to formally become the party’s nominee for president.

h/t Mauser