Former Obama running mate David Axelrod and former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger are crying foul over Sen. JD Vance's assessment of the events leading up to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday, and all two cry that it should be disqualified as a possible vice. Trump's presidential candidate.
Vance spoke the truth about the dehumanizing denigration of Donald Trump in a post on X, a campaign that includes Trump not only being compared to Hitler but, in some cases, even being called Hitler. A campaign that saw President Joe Biden regularly call the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee “the greatest threat to our democracy” and a “threat to America.”
“Today is not just an isolated incident. 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 the assassination attempt on President Trump.” , the Republican senator from Ohio posted on X after an assassin's bullet struck Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Today is not just an isolated incident.
The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
This rhetoric led directly to the assassination attempt on President Trump.
— JD Vance (@JDVance1) July 14, 2024
Vance is on Trump's list as a possible running mate, and Axelrod feigned outrage that the Biden campaign was implicated as a possible accessory in the shooting, calling for him to be disqualified.
Note that a day after the attempt on Trump's life, Axelrod saw fit to use the phrase “shoot from the hip.”
“If @JDVance1 is on the VP short list, this tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, should disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign. Wrong vibe at the time. And how now we're learning, the gunman's profile doesn't seem to match Vance's premise. But at least you wait and see! Trump probably doesn't want a shot-from-the-hip VP,” the former Obama strategist posted.
Note that President Biden posted this comment the day BEFORE Trump was shot:
Americans want a president, not a dictator.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 13, 2024
Kinzinger, who became a darling of the liberal media with his recent run as a Trump-denouncing Republican, echoed Axelrod's sentiments:
That should absolutely disqualify @JDVance1 from VP https://t.co/Eh8TRnBy47
— Adam Kinzinger (Slavic Ukraine) (@AdamKinzinger) July 14, 2024
Since Kinzinger enthusiastically joined rejected GOP politician Liz Cheney as token Republicans at Nancy Pelosi's one-sided select committee charade on January 6th, it's fair to suggest that she lost any right to comment on GOP events.
The left has been running on the fact that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican, but records show that a person matching Crooks' name donated to ActBlue for the Progressive Participation Project, a political action committee that aims to mobilize Democratic voters. Online speculation suggests that Crooks may have registered as a Republican to vote against Trump in the primary — Pennsylvania is a closed primary state.
As for Vance, there were many responses suggesting that his statements are the precise reason why he should be named Trump's vice president.
Here's a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen in X:
This take here is why @JDVance1 is one of the best choices for VP
He knows what time it is https://t.co/VQggxvP3Gd
— William Wolfe (@William_E_Wolfe) July 15, 2024
JD Vance gets it. He knows exactly how Democrats work.
Trump needs a VP who crushes the left, not someone who spent a career in Washington toying with the Dems and the Deep State. https://t.co/rC8ZAUVzf8
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 15, 2024
This all day. Thanks @jdvance1 https://t.co/wcYE3UdV2H
— Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL TV AND MOVIE STAR (@yesnicksearcy) July 15, 2024
If you repeat the lie that Trump is Hitler enough, some unstable leftist will feel a moral obligation to act and complete justification for doing so. It's not just @JoeBiden and his campaign, that's all @ElsDemòcrates i @MSNBC, @CNN and most of the media in general. https://t.co/TjpFGzAc29
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) July 14, 2024
It's like nobody remembers. https://t.co/Zea8EugkeK pic.twitter.com/geNLD9kjXc
— Jon Harris (@jonharris1989) July 15, 2024
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