On Sunday (14th July 2024), India woke up with shocking news and images coming out of the United States of America where an assassination was attempted on the Former US President and Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump. The assailant, now identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired a multiple bullets from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator.
One bullet pierced the upper right ear of Donald Trump, missing his skull by millimeters. Moments after the attack, a bleeding Trump raised a fist shouting, ‘Fight, fight, fight’ as he was rushed out by Secret Service personnel in a protective security cover.
While the attack garnered outright condemnation from Republicans, Democrats, and leaders around the world, the legacy media in the United States attempted to downplay the assassination attempt, displaying their inherent bias and abject contempt for the life of the Former US President, whom they portray as their enemy.
The US Intelligence and probing agencies are currently finding out the motive behind the assassination attempt. However, several Republicans, political pundits, social media users, and Independent observers have argued that this appears not to be an isolated lone-wolf attack, but rather a culmination of feverishly high-pitched rhetoric against Donald Trump which has led to this unfortunate assassination attempt at his life.
Notably, Donald Trump’s potential running mate, JD Vance, has blamed incumbent US President Joe Biden’s campaign for the shooting at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In a post on X, Vance stated, “Today is not just some 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 President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Today is not just some isolated incident.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 14, 2024
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 President Trump's attempted assassination.
US Representative Mike Collins has called for filing charges against US President Joe Biden for inciting an assassination.
The Republican District Attorney in Butler County, PA, should immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.
— Mike Collins (@MikeCollinsGA) July 13, 2024
Republican leaders including Vivek Ramaswamy stressed that the vile attacks by Democratic leadership against Donald Trump led to the unhinged hate campaign against Trump, eventually resulting in an assassination attempt. According to their assertion, Democrats and the US deep state attempted to stop Donald Trump at all costs for which they sued him, prosecuted him, and tried to take him off the ballot, which has now resulted in an attempt on his life.
First they sued him. Then they prosecuted him. Then they tried to take him off the ballot. The only thing more tragic than what just happened is that, if we’re being honest, it wasn’t totally a shock. Biden’s inevitable ritual condemnation of political violence today (when it…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 14, 2024
Republicans and several observers argue that with their vile campaign against Trump, Democrats brainwashed and radicalised a segment of their voter base against Trump. By labeling him as an “enemy” or “threat” to the nation, which needed to be eliminated, they painted a target on Trump’s back.
Former Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard pointed this out and asked, “The assassination attempt on President Trump is a logical consequence of repeatedly comparing him to Adolf Hitler. After all, if Trump truly was another Hitler, wouldn’t it be their moral duty to assassinate him?”
The assassination attempt on President Trump is a logical consequence of repeatedly comparing him to Adolf Hitler. After all, if Trump truly was another Hitler, wouldn’t it be their moral duty to assassinate him?
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 14, 2024
Strikingly, several videos have surfaced on social media in which apparent supporters of Democrats could be seen cheering the assassination attempt, exposing the impact of dehumanising political rhetoric.
MASHUP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
Deranged Leftists celebrating the ass*ssin*tion attempt on President Trump.
The Left are a threat to our country. pic.twitter.com/GfX6iomDVH
Meanwhile, Republicans and X users have shared several clips and old posts in which Democrats apparently called for “violence”, and physical harm to the Republican nominee and Former US President, Donald Trump. Their call-for-action-laden remarks seemingly made Trump a potential target to be neutralised for upholding the constitution, democratic principles, and values for which the US stands for.
“Most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation,” Biden had said days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump unfolded. On multiple occasions, over the course of a decade, Joe Biden has publicly expressed his desire to take his opponent behind the gym and beat the s**t out of him.
90 seconds of Democrats shamelessly promoting violence against President Trump.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 14, 2024
They incited the person who sh*t him on Saturday.
They’re to blame.pic.twitter.com/WzeG75swLF
"Most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation." – Joe Biden yesterday pic.twitter.com/31lNO7bk3p
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
In a short compilation video shared by Libs of Tiktok, several Democratic leaders including Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, supportive ecosystem, media, and people from ‘intelligentsia’ could be heard instigating people to “hit the road” against “dictator” Donald Trump, create “unrest”, “uprising”, or baying for physical harm on their political rivals whom they label as “enemies of the state”, including grabbing them by their neck, punching them in the face, putting a “bullet in Donald Trump’s head”.
Here’s 2 and a half minutes straight of Democrats explicitly calling for political violence.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
Has Biden ever denounced this?
They have blood on their hands. pic.twitter.com/mbGYXTWAN7
The left openly pushed for violence against Donald Trump.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 14, 2024
This is on you scumbags! pic.twitter.com/HG5m96jv4H
Over the years, many Trump haters and Democrat supporters have staged his killing by stabbing, beheading, and blowing up the White House. Earlier, the Secret Service had initiated a probe against Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal who hoped that President Donald Trump would be assassinated.
Incidentally, apart from Democratic leadership, several prominent celebrities had also chipped in stroking shrill rhetoric against Trump and calling for violence or killing Former US President Trump.
CNN journalist brazenly asked to see in writing that “protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful”, an apparent attempt to whitewash violence against political rivals. “When was the last time an actor assassinated a President”, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, a Trump hater, in 2017 had voiced for Trump’s assassination when the latter was in the office in the White House. Popular rapper Snoop Dog had once staged an act of killing a clown of Donald Trump.
In 2017, comedian Kathy Griffin posed with a gory dummy, carefully made to resemble the severed head of then-US President Trump.
Uncanny similarities and striking parallels between Biden’s veil campaign and what cabal wishes for in India: Tactics of de-humanising and painting a target on political rivals
The shrill rhetoric and dehumanising tactics glaringly visible in the hate campaign against Donald Trump find uncanny similarities and parallels with what the leftist and Islamist ecosystem has been running against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Akin to Democrats and its ecosystem’s hate campaign against Trump, the Congress, and its Islamo-leftist cabal have left no stone unturned in dehumanising PM Modi, painting him as an enemy of humankind, particularly minorities, Indian democracy, and a fascist dictator, etc that has to be eliminated. This includes “calling for action”, and street protests, which have the innate propensity to turn violent and baying for physical harm, death threats, threats of Indira Gandhi-kind of assassination, etc directed against PM Modi.
Over the years, Rahul Gandhi and his cabal’s campaign against PM Modi has taken a confrontational, darker turn with shrill rhetoric and machismo posturing taking over competitive and responsible subject matter-based opposition. This includes increased propensity, tolerance, and condoning calls for street violence, summary trial, and justice as well as calling/condoning for direct physical harm and “killing”/assassination of PM Modi.
The opposition has been adamantly portraying PM Modi as a threat to “democracy”, the “idea of India”, and “minorities” one which needed to be stopped at all costs including warranting a civil war-kind of chaos, uprising to dethrone the dictator and making him receive his due Justice.
In their hate campaign against Modi portraying him as a fascist dictator, “genocide enabler” and a “Dehuman” and so-called opposition to his policies and ideology, Congress and I.N.D.I. alliance leaders have peddled extremist rhetoric against PM Modi and shown abject contempt for his life. More so, just like Democratic leadership and their prominent celebrity supporters, Congress and I.N.D.I. alliance leaders have made remarks baying for PM Modi’s blood and voicing for his assassination.
In the garb of acting against their imagined ‘danger’ which PM Modi possesses, they have attempted to instigate and brainwash a large voter base to “hit the road” against “dictator” Modi, choke prominent and strategic places including Chicken’s neck, directing street violence, arson. On multiple occassions, especially days before the announcement of the Lok Sabha 2024 election results, they attempted to instigate people against democracy, and the legitimacy of PM Modi whom they portray as an evil dictator and ready to do whatever it takes to avoid his re-run.
They have called for ‘physically hurting’ PM Modi, chopping him into pieces, wishing death to Modi (‘Modi marr jaa tu‘) and Indira Gandhi-kind of assassination.
In a direct threat, Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahai in June 2022 had prophesied a Hitler-kind death to PM Modi. The Congress and its cabal have also ridiculed PM Modi’s security breach but also downplayed the risk and projected it as a ‘political gimmick’.
Notably, when a shoe/slipper was thrown at PM Modi’s cavalcade in Varanasi, Rahul Gandhi instead of highlighting security concerns, mocked PM Modi saying that nobody is scared of him now, indirectly encouraging the public do more of such acts. Earlier, when PM Modi’s security convoy was halted for hours at a bridge in Punjab, the Congress party had attempted to downplay it, trying to brush it as a “political gimmick”.
More than a decade earlier, in 2013, when Narendra Modi was the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, around six bombs exploded during his rally in Patna, displaying the grave threat to his life.
Apart from the US which has seen around 15 instances of high-level political assassination attempts, with many being successful even, India has lost two Prime Ministers and several Chief Ministers to assassinations which underscores the need to tone down the shrill rhetoric against political opponents and encouragement of physical violence. Political violence and murders are the fastest way to anarchy because when a political leader, especially a nation head gets assassinated, or even attacked, the public at large gets convinced that there is no law and order in the country, that anyone can be killed and there will be no consequences.
