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Trump and Right-Wing Rhetoric Push the Nation to Violence
The Minnesota terrorist was a purebred MAGA cultist.
I waited before writing about the assassination of the Minnesotan politicians and family members. I wanted to see how the right would handle this latest result of Trump’s reckless rhetoric. It was to be expected that MAGA losers would begin imagining all sorts of conspiracies about the shooter, but I wanted to see how the White House and Fox News handled this latest truth of right-wing extremism.
Trump had this response when asked about the shooting:
“Well, it’s a terrible thing. I think he’s a terrible governor. I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,” he told ABC’s Rachel Scott (Trump Has Not Called Walz).
Fox News spent the immediate moments after the shooting claiming that the shooter worked for Governor Tim Walz, and then, when they learned from the shooter’s best friend and roommate that he was a “big supporter of Trump,” they went silent. In online articles about the shooting, suddenly all of the comments were deleted, and comments were turned off. Fox doesn’t want any of the reality of their unceasing lies and propaganda to filter through to the brain-dead MAGA hordes.
