Minutes after Donald Trump was shot, the MAGA world was flooded with claims that\u00a0 Joe Biden ordered the assassination attempt and God saved him from it.<\/p>\n
Listen to them:<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.:\u00a0 “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now. Our God still saves, he still delivers and he still sets free.\u00a0 Because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle. But an American lion got back up on his feet and he roared.”<\/p>\n
Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., called for a Republican district attorney to \u201cimmediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination \u2026 Joe Biden sent the orders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, Donald Trump\u2019s choice for his vice president: \u201cThe \u201ccentral premise of the Biden campaign is that President (sic) Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.\u00a0 That rhetoric led directly to President (sic again) Trump\u2019s attempted assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two words come to mind: Hypocrisy and Ignorance.<\/p>\n
No, make that four words: Monstrous Hypocrisy and Stupendous Ignorance.<\/p>\n
Begin with Monstrous Hypocrisy. Listen to what MAGA\u2019s minions said long before that 20-year-old kid shot Trump.Trump himself suggested in 2016 that \u201cSecond Amendment people\u201d could prevent Hillary Clinton from appointing judges.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s son Donald Junior once reposted an image of Biden bound and gagged in the back of a pickup truck.<\/p>\n
A Kansas Republican Party fundraiser last April allowed people who donated money to kick and punch an effigy of President Biden.<\/p>\n
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, who is running for governor and was chosen to speak at the Republican National Convention, said less than a month ago that \u201cSome folks need killing.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for somebody to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the MAGA minions say Biden <\/em>is causing this turn toward violence?\u00a0 See what I mean by Monstrous Hypocrisy?<\/p>\n I\u2019m surprised that Maga minions aren\u2019t blaming Biden for Iran\u2019s recently discovered plan to kill Trump.\u00a0 (By the way, did any of those MAGA minions mention that it was Biden\u2019s people who discovered that plot and warned Trump about it, and thank them for it? Of course not.)<\/p>\n Before we leave the discussion of hypocrisy, which is saturating the Christian Nationalist wing of the MAGA Party, remember this: While Jesus was here, he directed his harshest words at hypocrites. He despised hypocrites more than anyone else on Earth. (Are you listening, Christian Nationalists?)<\/p>\n But enough about Monstrous Hypocrisy.\u00a0 Let\u2019s talk about Stupendous Ignorance for a moment.<\/p>\n Reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention said it was hard to find any delegate who wasn\u2019t crediting God for saving Trump\u2019s life. Frankly, I find that nauseating.<\/p>\n Several years ago, a friend of mine was backing his car out of the driveway.\u00a0 He did not know his young daughter was playing in the driveway, and he did not see her.\u00a0 He ran over her and killed her. If God saved Trump, then he also could have saved my friend\u2019s daughter. Doesn\u2019t it stand to reason that if God saved Trump, he murdered my friend\u2019s daughter?<\/p>\n Or how about these official statistics: 8,656 persons were murdered in 2023, 68,387 women were raped and 40,990 persons were killed in traffic accidents. Do you really think God protected Trump but ignored all those other victims. Really?<\/p>\n Of course not.\u00a0 God didn\u2019t protect Trump.\u00a0 Lady Luck did.\u00a0 But apparently that\u2019s what all those Christian Nationalists at the RNC believe.\u00a0 See what I mean Stupendous Ignorance?<\/p>\n But this is what we\u2019re up against, a person (I cannot call him a man) who has called for the mass deportation of 10 million immigrants (although doing so would destroy our economy), the \u201dtermination of the Constitution,\u201d and the jailing and prosecution of his political opponents. He paid a porn star with whom he had a sexual encounter to keep silent about it.\u00a0 A jury of his peers convicted him of being a sexual abuser, but the judge said it was rape.\u00a0 Trump incited, then excused, condoned and praised the violent insurrectionists who tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. He faces more than 50 other felony charges.\u00a0 And on. And on.\u00a0 And on.<\/p>\n And despite all that, this is the person that half of America wants to be our next president. Unbelievable!<\/p>\n We cannot \u2013 we must not — let this happen.<\/p>\n For starters, we can ignore the RNC\u2019s platform, even though it was largely written to mimic Trump\u2019s desires.\u00a0 Once Trump is in office he will ignore it and stick with Project 2025.<\/p>\n Polls show that 70 percent of Americans don\u2019t know what Project 2025 is, but it is the most horrifying plan for running an American government that has ever been written, and if Trump is elected he will follow that project. He has in effect said so.\u00a0 I posted a synopsis of that plan last April 15, which included Trump\u2019s words that supported it.\u00a0 If you didn\u2019t read it, or even if you did, please click on\u00a0Danger Ahead: Project 2025<\/strong><\/a> and forward it to anyone you know who might need to read it or might already know it but might forward it to others.<\/p>\n And please, above all else, vote the entire ticket in November. Not just for president but for the entire Democratic ticket.\u00a0 Voting has never been more important.<\/p>\n We will win this thing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minutes after Donald Trump was shot, the MAGA world was flooded with claims that\u00a0 Joe Biden ordered the assassination attempt and God saved him from it. Listen to them: U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.:\u00a0 “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now. 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