https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html
Opens with Haitians to set the scene
Within days of former President Donald J. Trump vilifying immigrants on national television with false stories about Haitian migrants eating pet dogs and cats in an Ohio town, someone began threatening to blow up schools, City Hall and other public buildings, forcing evacuations and prompting a wave of fear.
Introduces the recent shooter a trump supporter:
Days later, authorities said, a man who described himself online as a disaffected former Trump supporter made his way with a semiautomatic rifle to the former president's Florida golf course, evidently looking to take a shot. He was thwarted only when an observant Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire first.
They ask this democrat his opinion on the cause of all of this violence
"One of the things I'm most concerned about right now is the normalization of political violence in our political system. It's on the increase," Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado and a member of a bipartisan task force already investigating the July 13 assassination attempt against Mr. Trump, said in an interview. "Now we're on the second one in as many months and it just shows the extent to which this has become pervasive."
Briefly mentions the medias obsession with calling Trump a "threat to democracy" before moving on
Even as he complained that the Democrats had made him a target by calling him a threat to democracy, he repeated his own assertion that "these are people that want to destroy our country" and called them "the enemy from within."
For reference some recent media coverage of Trump
The rest is just blaming Trump
At the heart of today's eruption of political violence is Mr. Trump, a figure who seems to inspire people to make threats or take actions both for him and against him. He has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near-fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speaker and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed.
While Mr. Trump insists his fiery speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, was not responsible for the subsequent ransacking of the Capitol, he resisted pleas from advisers and his own daughter that day to do more to stop the assault. He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.
Mr. Trump does not pause to reflect on the impact of his own words. Just last week, his false pet-eating accusations against Haitian migrants during his debate with Ms. Harris were quickly followed by bomb threats that turned life upside-down in Springfield, Ohio, and he did nothing to discourage them.
Asked by a reporter if he denounced the bomb threats, he demurred. "I don't know what happened with the bomb threats," he said. "I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants, and that's a terrible thing that happened."
After 10 paragraphs of this shit^ they pretend they are being neutral:
Mr. Trump's critics have at times employed the language of violence as well, though not as extensively and repeatedly at the highest levels. The former president's allies distributed a video compilation online of various Trump opponents saying they would like to punch him in the face or the like. Some of the more extreme voices on social media in the past day have mocked or minimized the close call at the Florida golf course. Mr. Trump's allies often decry what they call Trump Derangement Syndrome, the notion that his critics despise him so much they have lost their minds.
Conclusion: Will Trump learn his lesson?
Anger, of course, has long been the animating force of Mr. Trump's time in politics — both the anger he stirs among supporters against his rivals and the anger that he generates among opponents who come to loathe him. Predictions that he might rethink that after he narrowly escaped death in Butler proved ephemeral. By halfway through his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention five days later, he was back to himself.
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