by CLETA MITCHELL
Following the failed assassination of former (and future) President Donald Trump, the state media is now calling on everyone else to “lower the temperature” of political rhetoric. That’s rich. This comes after years of Democrats and leftists baselessly comparing President Trump to history’s greatest monsters and allowing partisans to declare Trump and his supporters an “existential threat to democracy,” all with no pushback or challenge by the state media.
There is a simple way to test the sincerity of the haughty media types suddenly parroting this newfound “lower the temperature” mantra: Are corporate media willing to commit to stopping the unprecedented, unsupported, and abusive lawfare against President Trump and his supporters by calling out those who make the most vile, hateful, and vitriolic attacks against Trump and the Make America Great Again movement? Are they willing to plead guilty to their role in the temperature-raising and pledge to do their part to now lower it?
Lower Temps by Ending Lawfare
First and foremost, if the left wants to “lower the temperature,” then they should call out the unprecedented manner in which Biden has chosen to try to be reelected: by vanquishing his political rival — not at the ballot box, but in the courthouse.
An honest “media” interested in “lowering the temperature” would demand Biden order the dismissal of all federal charges against Trump. That includes the infuriatingly biased charges of “mishandling” classified documents. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden clearly have more culpability than Trump on that score, but only Trump faces a government jihad.
If the media want to lower the temperature? Collectively, they should demand that Biden tell his Democratic acolytes in New York and Atlanta to call off the dogs in those Soviet-style proceedings. Even former New York Gov. and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has said that the novel legal theory used to convict Trump of a felony over a recordkeeping violation would never have been brought “If his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn’t running for president.”
The case against Trump in Atlanta has already been waylaid by serious charges of prosecutorial corruption and is premised on an illegally recorded phone call. Want to lower the temperature? The media should be shouting questions at the White House mouthpiece-in-chief about Biden’s culpability in these grossly inappropriate prosecutions. If the media would do that, the temperature would start to come down, because it would help create some sense of accountability for Democrats that has not, to date, been seen.
Cut the Lawfare Against Trump Supporters
And where is the media outrage against the abuse of the legal system being deployed against Trump attorneys? Anyone who sincerely wants political unity and peaceful elections must insist that state bar associations, including the D.C. Bar, immediately cease proceedings against Trump lawyers. This would include reinstating Trump lawyer John Eastman, who has been disbarred for the crime of giving Trump accurate advice on constitutional principles. Dear Lowering the Temperature Media: Where are you on this one?
State media could also pressure Biden to call on the Democrat state attorneys general in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin to dismiss criminal charges against Trump electors. Democrat officeholders have brought these spurious charges in a clear effort to curry favor with Biden. Where are the media investigations to learn the extent to which these outrageous criminal charges against ordinary Americans were coordinated with the White House? Have we somehow missed those investigative reports?
It’s notable that Ketanji Brown Jackson, a leftist Supreme Court justice appointed by Biden, signed onto a high court ruling concluding that Biden’s Justice Department twisted an obscure bit of financial legislation to charge hundreds of Jan. 6, 2021, rioters with felonies rather than misdemeanors. A commitment to deescalating the “temperature” would mean Biden should commute and pardon the J6 prisoners his DOJ railroaded and create a compensation board to pay damages to these unfairly prosecuted American citizens.
Try Some Tough Coverage of the Left
Temperature-lowering would entail tough, critical coverage of those who have spent years using terms such as “dictator,” “evil,” “Hitler,” “threat to democracy,” “bullseye,” “taking him out,” “put him in jail,” “punch him in the face,” “real martyr,” “he must be stopped,” “dangerous MAGA Republicans,” “convicted felon,” “insurrectionist,” and similar terms about President Trump and his supporters. Will the media push back against those who employ such rhetoric?
It would also, necessarily, mean the media holding itself to account. The New Republic’s latest issue depicts Trump as Hitler on the cover. Even The New York Times edition the morning after the assassination attempt totally lacked restraint. Where is the media outrage about those publications?
How about this for a possible intensive media review: What should be the consequences if a national leader publicly says to put his opponent (by name) in a “bullseye”? Is that grounds for impeachment if some guy takes him up on it?
That seems worse than saying: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Yet those words gave rise to impeachment and criminal charges against Trump. Where is the media frenzy over those “bullseye” words from Biden after the rifle shots in Pennsylvania on Saturday night?
Judge Cannon drops documents case. Gone. JUSTICE served.
greg should now be on suicide watch. This will destroy him.
Can we all watch?
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Their incendiary rhetoric along with biden requesting Trump be put in a bullseye are more than responsible.
Arrest George Stephanopoulos under some of our laws that were passed back in the 50’s and 60’s that dealt with Communists in America. These laws are still in our books, take this former Clintonite and charge him for being a Communist propagandist trying to subvert the USA. Toss in Mika and Joe, Joy Reid and others who have done nothing but spew violence’s and hatred for MAGA and President Trump leading to this assassination attempt of a former President and current Presidential candidate.
Just as the Democrats have never taken responsibility for slavery, the Civil War, the KKK, Jim Crow and apologized, so too will they need to take responsibility for their inflammatory, racist, hateful, violent rhetoric before their calls for “civility” can be taken seriously. THEY are the problem and THEY need to correct their behavior.
Impossible to have unity with a group of zoo animals(democrats) who want nothing more than to assassinate the leader of the opposing party. And they are not bashful about admitting it. biden claimed on January 20, 2021 to unit the countryr. He has been anything but. Now they call for unity, not in what is left of my lifetime….