Media gaslighting claims Trump supporters, not radical left, pose more of a threat of election-related violence

It’s almost as if we’ve been the subject of a massive psyop for the past nine years. As soon as Donald Trump rode down the escalator in New York City to announce his candidacy for president of the United States, the media-political complex–the swamp– turned him and his supporters into targets. 

What we have witnessed since that day is a collaborative attempt to turn Trump, anyone who associates with him, and his supporters into a modern-day version of the Third Reich. The media cherry-picks statements made by Trump, airs them without context, and uses them to paint him as Hitler redux. Trump’s political opposition then picks up those cherry-picked statements and, despite being debunked, continues to push them as the truth. 

Independent journalist Julie Kelly, who has done yeoman’s work in covering the persecution of even the most innocuous participants in the January 6th, 2021, US Capitol siege, recently posted in Substack about the pattern of violence perpetrated by the radical left, and which is ignored by the mainstream media. 

The most recent examples involve RINO and disgraced former congresswoman Liz Cheney, who turned from the number three Republican in the House to a rabid anti-Trump zealot.

During a rally last week, Trump was speaking about Cheney’s well-deserved reputation as a war hawk neocon. He suggested that if she took up arms and faced nine rifles facing back in her direction, she might sing a different tune about sending young men and women off to foreign countries to fight useless wars, such as her father did when he served as vice president. 

The media, with the help of rabid anti-Trump Democrats, took Trump’s words and twisted them into a pretzel to claim Trump was suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad. Anyone listening to his entire remarks in context knew precisely what Trump was talking about. 

Democrats seized upon the carefully edited remarks and are using them to suggest that Trump and his supporters are the perpetrators of political violence, even though of the two presidential candidates, only one–Trump–was the intended victim of two assassination attempts. Over the past several weeks and despite those two assassination attempts, Kamala Harris, her dufus vice presidential running mate Tim Walz, and other leftist Democrats and media whores, continue to compare Trump to Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. Such a comparison is an insult to those who lost their lives in the Holocaust and their surviving family members. 

With the presidential election looming, the gaslighting is starting to reach a fever pitch. While the Democratic militia has been responsible for an overwhelming amount of the political violence in this country over the past eight years–2017 Trump inauguration, 2018 protests against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, 2020 BLM/Antifa nationwide riots, confrontations with Trump supporters during “Stop the Steal” events in November/December 2020, assaults on attendees at Trump’s nomination in 2020, protests and vandalism at pregnancy counseling centers, and most recently assaults on Jewish students and others during pro-Hamas, anti-America protests–the complicit media continue to paint Republicans as a threat to Democracy. Those efforts are furthered by feckless Attorney General Merrick Garland, who never speaks of violent left extremists–only those from the right. 

The Washington Post, Kelly wrote, said police in the nation’s capital and activist groups are readying themselves for violence initiated by “white supremacists,” aka Trump voters, after election day. You may recall that in 2016, the unhinged left engaged in violent riots that caused untold property damage and injured hundreds of police officers. In 2020, when Biden “won,” the only pushback was in courtrooms. Yes, a few hundred people got out of hand on January 6, 2021, but the overwhelming majority acted peacefully. Those who caused damage and injured police officers deserved to get arrested and prosecuted. However, the lie that “five police officers were killed” at the Capitol is quite simply that…a lie. 

But it is Trump supporters they fear in Washington, DC. 

“I really fear outsiders coming in,” a DC resident, Gail Sullivan, told the Washington Post. “This is where the insurrection happened. Maybe it will spill out more into our neighborhoods than it did before.” [emphasis added]

Another “traumatized” DC resident, Shreya Tulsiani, told Politico that she still suffers flashbacks from the US Capitol siege. “January 6th was a very scary time. I used to live right off North Capitol Street, so I could see the Capitol. There were Proud Boys petting my dog that day.” 

Petting her dog. So mean, so violent. Not quite to the level of driving across the country to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but oh so close. 

Another now-former DC resident, Cassie Miller, and her husband moved out of their Capitol Hill home after “having lived through” the events of January 6th and being afraid of a repeat. “We decided we’d rather be safe than sorry,” she told the local NBC News affiliate. 

The US Capitol Police, who Kelly reminded us not only protected the man who shot and killed unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt but promoted him, recently conducted a “mass casualty” drill which by all appearances was designed to remind people of January 6 and alleged ties to Donald Trump. 

Again ignoring where most of the political violence in the US comes from, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan is blaming Trump’s alleged rhetoric for inflaming political violence. 

“[As] Trump once again promotes falsehoods about election fraud and denigrates election officials, law enforcement officers worry that the floodgates to violence are open.” 

Kelly noted that Swan went on to use “a few thousand more words” to address “alleged threats to election workers and other incidents that solely targeted Democrats and Democratic jurisdictions in the post-2020 period.” 

Again, Swan completely ignored the violence perpetrated by the radical left, which was more frequent and much more violent. 

Kelly wrote that Democrats and the mainstream media are suffering from “amnesia” about “election-related violence spawned by supporters of their own party.” It’s as if, Kelly wrote, “American history ceased to exist in any meaningful way before that date; nothing that happened before January 6 matters.” 

She offered a reminder of what happened in the days after Trump was elected in 2016. 

• Days of protests, documented by the New York Times, spanning 52 cities following Trump’s election; those cities included Miami, Portland, Las Vegas, and Madison, Wisconsin; protesters burned an American flag in front of the Georgia State Capitol building;
• Protesters in Los Angeles burned a pinata that resembled Trump
• Portland, Oregon, endured three days of intense violence, during which police declared a riot. Anti-Trump loons attacked police, vandalized buildings, and set buildings on fire. 
• Over 7,000 rioters took to the streets in Oakland, California, on Nov. 9, 2016, hurling Molotov cocktails, rocks, and fireworks at police, a local Oakland paper reported. Others smashed windows or painted graffiti on local storefronts, and multiple trash and cardboard fires were started in the middle of streets. At least three Oakland police officers were injured. 
• In Omaha, Nebraska, on Nov. 10, 2016, a mob got into an altercation with police, with at least two persons being arrested for obstructing justice. 
• On Nov. 12, 2016, an anti-Trump demonstration in Indianapolis turned violent, with protesters throwing rocks at police; seven protesters were arrested, and two police officers were injured. 

The demonstrations and riots continued until Inauguration Day, Kelly wrote. Students walked out of classes, protesters surrounded Trump properties in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, while sometimes violent clashes with police continued. As Kelly observed, while some of the above incidents cannot necessarily be considered “violent,” given the Biden-Harris DOJ’s new definition of “domestic terrorist” using their January 6 version, Kelly suggested the new rules should apply historically. 

On January 20, 2017, Trump’s inauguration day, a violent riot took place in Washington, DC, which saw protesters tied to Antifa light cars and businesses on fire only blocks from the US Capitol, where inauguration ceremonies were taking place. Over 200 rioters were arrested, and six officers were injured. 

However, unlike January 6, 2021, participants in the US Capitol proceedings, the DOJ dropped charges against all the 2017 rioters. 

The January 6, 2021, US Capitol protest took place because at least one-half of Americans do not believe our election system is not rigged. And in some cases, nothing has been done to assuage those fears in the ensuing four years.

Businesses in Washington, DC, have already started boarding up their windows in anticipation of a Harris defeat this week. It is pretty much a guarantee that they are not doing that in anticipation of a Harris victory because, unlike the unhinged lunatics on the left, Republicans don’t destroy cities when they don’t get their way. “Years of precedent,” Kelly wrote, “prove the opposite of what Democrats and the media want the public to believe. They, not Trump supporters, represent the real threat for ‘political violence.’”