Posted on 06/25/2016 7:56:31 AM PDT by Starman417
Ah Washington Post, you've done it again. Here you have a legitimate, under-reported story, and you manage to find a way to drop in some good old fashioned radical left wing bias. From your 6/21 edition:
The No. 1 trending question related to Donald Trump on Google right now is "Who tried to shoot Trump?" Which means a lot of people don't know the answer. Which is probably because the assassination attempt on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn't been covered as a major news story.So far, so good. Just the facts. Then they do a good job of bringing up an element of the story that I had not realized, since we got rid of cable at Chateau d' Bob some time ago:The answer, authorities say, is Michael Steven Sandford, a 20-year-old British citizen who was in the United States illegally after overstaying his visa. Sandford allegedly tried to pull a gun from the holster of a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. He was arrested and later told the Secret Service that he had driven to the event from California and had been planning to kill the candidate for a year, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada.
News outlets have certainly reported on the incident, but it hasn't gotten anything resembling wall-to-wall coverage.
Cable news shows devoted little time to Sandford Tuesday morning and afternoon. Trump's dismal fundraising report from May and his recent firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski received far more attention. Trump called in to the Trump-friendly "Fox & Friends" morning show and wasn't even asked about the attempt on his life.And why would this be? Our friends at WaPo have the answers! The article starts well enough, citing that the assailant didn't even come close to succeeding, and cites several other instances of would-be assassins who did not become darlings of the news cycle. But being the WaPo it's only a matter of time before they go off the rails.It's worth noting that the real estate magnate didn't bring it up, either. Trump hasn't so much as tweeted about it, which suggests he doesn't consider it a huge deal or doesn't want to talk about it.
From Trump's perspective, Sandford doesn't fit neatly into his campaign narrative. The billionaire has positioned himself as a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, so he certainly won't use the failed assassination attempt to push for gun control. Sandford is an illegal immigrant — and Trump is all about deporting illegal aliens — but the candidate's focus is on building a wall to keep out Mexicans and barring foreign Muslims from entering the United States. A Briton who overstayed his visa isn't a very good poster boy for the cause."Doesn't fit the narrative". I'll grant them that point, even if it is a shaky one. Overstaying one's visa drops you firmly in the category of illegal immigrant, There's no good reason for Trump to have not made this into a bigger story. The Post even posts a counter point from Hot Air:
Can you imagine the coverage we'd be seeing if someone had attempted to shoot Hillary Clinton? The same could be said if it had happened with Barack Obama in the summer of 2008. Questions would be debated on air for weeks on end about the evil lurking in the hearts of men and why someone would be so desperate to prevent the election of the first black or female president. But when someone plots for more than a year to kill Trump, travels across the country to find an opportunity and then launches his attempt, it creates barely a ripple in the media pond.The next logical step for a journalist would be to follow up on this obvious point, no? If you guessed "no", you were correct! The article closes by making a bizarre leap straight to pointing out that some Trump supporters on social media are blaming Glenn Beck & Brad Thor's friendly-fire anti-Trump rhetoric and using that as the closing argument in the post.
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We should all be praying for God to keep Trump safe. Trump needs to have the best protecting him.
I think you’re right.
This was the dumbest and most pitiful assassination attempt ever. Just stupid.
Didn’t have a gun and couldn’t get one (the system works), so he has to try to take one from a cop. So dumb. Went to the range the day before and fired 20 rounds to ‘learn how to shoot’... Yeah, right. Now he’s an expert marksman.
You add it all up and it’s just... sad. Doesn’t exactly inspire hair raising.
Had he gotten the gun, he would’ve hurt somebody (if he could fire it), but not Trump. Trump wears body armor, so it would actually take a head shot to seriously threaten him. There was no way that this yokel was going to pull that off.
I think that it’s not a big deal because there was never a real threat.
Check the White House Visitors Log.
Didn’t some uber-progressive tech guru buy that fish wrap?
After the article posted on FR today and this terrorist’s links to Mateen of the Orlando massacre, Sherlock Holmes might begin to put 2 + 2 together unless he was taught in new math.
“they are so very disappointed it didn’t succeed.”
You beat me to it!
If it happened to muslim obama in 08 campaigning, itd be all they would talk about.
The longest coverage I saw of this story was once on a “Nancy Grace” show.
I disagree. Have you read any of the info on this kid? It’s pretty shocking how his parents encouraged him to come to the USA with plenty of money and then lost track of him for a year. It’s a scary scenario. He had plans to go to another rally as well. This could have quickly degenerated into a killing.
HarleyLady27 wrote: https://t.co/zI63LfqsHO "The guy who took the cops gun at Trump rally, trained with Orlando shooter and another"
Given the history of this administration, this is unnervingly plausible. Here's more related food for thought:
Attempted and failed.
But that’s not the whole story...yes it was attempted and it failed, thank goodness...but the real story is who it was, who he was connected to and why...
The media twits tried to spin a story about how ‘love sick’ he was, he met a girl in America, blah, blah, blah...BS...
He was connected to the Orlando Shooter and James Howell...same cell of Radial Islamic Terrorism....
I passed this info on. Maybe you should send the link to Trump’s people and Sundance.
‘Cause he never even got close.
I already have and to drudge...
Oh good!!! Thank you for being pro-active!! I’ve sent a couple of things but I should keep that in mind more often.
He is white
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