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Republicans, ignoring facts about the shooter, try to blame Trump attack on Democrats' rhetoric
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday has given Republicans an opportunity to pin the blame on Democrats, who have long campaigned on the warning that the former president is a threat to democracy. Although the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican and "definitely conservative," in the words of one former classmate, GOP officials rushed to blame President Joe Biden and the Democrats for a creating political environment that encourages violence.
Marjorie Taylor Greene blames "evil" Democrats for shooting by registered Republican
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is being criticized for her divisive messages following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday. In a series of posts on X, Greene attacked Democrats and said the country is in "a battle between good and evil." She also wrote that the Democratic Party tried to "murder President Trump,” despite the fact that the bullets fired at the former president were shot by a registered Republican.
"Lost a lot of moral high ground": Bill Maher says Trump shooter did "so much damage to the left"
Comedian Bill Maher had a lot to say about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Pennsylvania, specifically a message for the left in a politically fraught election cycle. Maher denounced the shooter's attempted actions during his intro for a show on Saturday.
Judge Aileen Cannon repeatedly cites Clarence Thomas to dismiss Trump indictment
Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith by the Department of Justice violated the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution. According to Cannon's ruling, Smith should have been appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate like other high-level officers.
"He definitely was conservative": Classmates paint picture of Republican "outcast" who shot Trump
Donald Trump was shot in the ear Saturday by a 20-year-old registered Republican described by most former classmates as a loner who was bullied in high school, with at least two describing him as a conservative. The FBI has identified the deceased shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park,...
Police spotted gunman but retreated moments before he took a shot at Trump
The 20-year-old who carried out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump had earlier pointed his gun at a local police officer before firing at the former president on Saturday, CNN reported. The Butler Township police department had received calls about a suspicious person on the perimeter of the rally, but...
Inside Ziklag: The secret group of rich Christians trying to sway elections and change the country
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
An instinct to incite: The challenge to tamp down political rhetoric in the wake of Trump's shooting
According to Brady United, the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention group, 327 people are shot with guns every day in the United States. Over one million have been shot in the last decade. There are more civilian-owned firearms than there are people in this country. Gun violence is so ubiquitous that we only raise our heads once in a great while when the body count is shockingly high or the victims are particularly vulnerable, like elementary school children. But this weekend we all looked up sharply when a lone sniper shot at Donald Trump, grazing his ear, killing a spectator and wounding two others.
Attack on Trump exploited: "An opportunity to shame dissenters from the MAGA movement into silence"
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election at Erie Insurance Arena on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) “May you live in interesting times” is a curse, as these last three weeks...
An attempt on Donald Trump’s life should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party
After surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November. With his active supporters even more motivated in the wake of the shooting Saturday, preventing a Trump victory is now unlikely. Still, we must try.
An apprehensive flight into Milwaukee for the RNC
This article was originally published by InsiderNJ. Used by permission. As I write this column, I am on the way to Milwaukee to cover the Republican National Convention. My plane is packed with GOP delegates from New Jersey and New York, journalists, and civilians who have love or business somewhere in the Midwest.
Farmworkers are at greatest exposure risk for bird flu, but given few protections
Dairy farmworkers often spend 10 to 12 hours a day milking dairy cattle in crowded, wet environments. They are in constant, intimate contact with unpasteurized cow milk, a known carrier of H5N1, the viral strain of bird flu that jumped from poultry to cows back in March. But despite being...
FBI leading investigation into "fundamental security failure" at Trump rally
Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, GOP Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, stating the importance of a full investigation into an apparent lapse of security at the event, which nearly cost Trump his life.
U.S. leaders show support following Donald Trump’s rally shooting
The apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump sent shock waves through the geo-political biosphere, as U.S. leaders chimed in to condemn the attack. Shortly after the shooting on Saturday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the nation and said that “everybody must condemn” the events that took place, the Associated Press reported.
The questions "When Harry Met Sally" make us consider today
Maybe we’ve been looking for the wrong answers from “When Harry Met Sally.” Easy enough to do, since the plot revolves around the question of whether men and women can truly be friends. Billy Crystal’s Harry Burns is very sure he knows the right answer at the...
"It was staged": Conspiracy theories are flying after Trump's Pennsylvania shooting
Almost immediately after the news began to circulate on Saturday that a man — now identified as 20-year-old registered Republican Thomas Matthew Crooks — botched what appears to have been an attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, conspiracy theories were flying. After...
Trump rally shooter identified by FBI as a 20-year-old registered Republican
The FBI identified twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the person responsible for shooting at former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania Saturday evening. Crooks — a registered Republican — shot off several rounds from a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle while perched on the roof of a building just...
Shannen Doherty dies at 53, after lengthy battle with cancer
Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles as Brenda Walsh in "Beverly Hills, 90210" and Prue Halliwell in "Charmed," died at the age of 53 on Saturday, after a lengthy battle with cancer. The latest in a string of celebrity deaths this week, including Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth, and Shelley...
Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt. Can America survive what happens next?
It's unacceptably trite to say that we knew something like this would happen. But on some level, how could we not? Despite the expressions of sympathy and support from both Donald Trump's allies and his most committed political opponents, and the ritual pronouncements that political violence is unacceptable, no one in America can truly be surprised by each new outbreak of mayhem and bloodshed, whether it occurs on the streets of a large city, inside a rural church or a suburban big-box retail store, or at a presidential campaign rally in post-industrial western Pennsylvania.
White supremacy with a law degree: How do we escape "The Originalism Trap"?
In her new book, “The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back,” Madiba K. Dennie critiques the legal doctrine known as "originalism," calling it a movement born out of opposition to the school desegregation mandated by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Her argument is broadly compatible with those made by Eric Segall in "Originalism as Faith" (Salon story here) and Erwin Chemerinsky in "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism" (interview here). But in characterizing originalism as a “trap” and situating it historically, Dennie's analysis cuts deeper into the harm caused by originalist doctrine, without sacrificing nuance, rigor or scope.
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