The cover-up has already started.
Legacy Media is already calling the attack on President Trump an “apparent” assassination attempt.
Ryan Wesley Routh was arraigned in court today – but only two federal firearms charges. He was not charged with the attempted assassination of President Trump.
The 58-year-old Routh was active on social media and was known to post anti-Trump messages. He was a passionate supporter of Ukraine – and was well-known in the national media.
His son told the Daily Mail that his father hated Trump as every reasonable person does.
NBC News anchor Lester Holt insinuated that Trump’s comments about Haitian migrants were to blame. And MSNBC actually blamed President Trump for the attack.
ELISE JORDAN: We have seen, Alex, just this cycle of clinical extremism at play, unfortunately, over the last, you know, really- decade of American politics. Polling, the Lincoln Democracy Institute did a great poll on political extremism in America last year, and one of the findings was that over 50% of Americans no longer see the political opposition as trustworthy opponents, they see them as untrustworthy enemies. And do, on the scales of radicalization by what, you know, after 9/11, the scales that were used, you know, to gauge radicalism and extremism in the Middle East, by that criteria, almost 13% of Americans are actually political extreme- extremists who are radicalized. And it’s very scary. And it- how have we gotten to this point when the, you know, the demonization of the other side where we simply- ah, you know, it is no longer politics, it’s gotten bigger than that. The calls for violence. You know, rhetoric and then look at what happens and it, you know, this heated rhetoric can only go so far before, unfortunately, it, you know, it has led to violence on both sides of the aisle and so I think it’s just something that Democrats and Republicans have to be very cognizant about. What can we all do to take the temperature down?
ALEX WITT: Yeah. Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because, he’s going to reach out to his supporters and say “let’s take this down”? We do not know, again, the source of any gunshot or gunshots. We don’t know who is responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed from start to finish, how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric? Toning down the violence? Or would that be atypical of the former president?
JORDAN: Alex, Remember back to the assassination attempt from President Trump’s life and how, you know, there was talk of a new tone and then the Republican convention was, by Trumpian standards, muted and it did seem like he was, you know, just trying to take it down a few notches, but then by the end of his convention speech, you know, we were kind of back to where we started. So I don’t know how long this could l- you know, this moment of unity for the country where we come together and we say, “I don’t want any political opposition to be under threat of violence. It’s not OK, any threat of violence, you know, we don’t want”. I would love for us to have a unity type moment, but it’s probably gonna be pretty fleeting, as we’ve seen in the past.
If I didn’t know better – I’d say President Trump is being hunted. There are powerful forces at work that do not want him to be president.
And the media would have you believe it was just a random occurrence that a guy would build a sniper’s nest in the bushes outside Trump International Golf Course. As if everyone in South Florida totes around an AK-47.
So don’t be surprised if the media spins Ryan Wesley Routh as a humanitarian who was only trying to hunt geese at Trump International Golf Club to feed oppressed Haitian refugees in Ohio.
I’m Todd Starnes.