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Back in 2016, Douglass Mackey, known online as Ricky Vaughn, went to social media with a joke about voting for Hillary Clinton in that year's presidential election via text message.
It was, actually, just an updated version of an election meme that's been around for years. Depending on the political persuasion, it has appeared before as "Democrats vote on Tuesday, Republicans on Wednesday," or vice versa.
That one's comedic value obviously is that an election, for generations in America, has been on a Tuesday, so a Wednesday vote is valueless. Likewise with Mackey's, as there is no accepted process for voting "via text message."
A report at RedState explained, "While most people saw this particular meme and thought, 'Haha, can you imagine anybody being that stupid,' scolds at the Justice Department tightened up their britches and set about squashing the man."
Mackey was arrested, and charged with election interference, specifically., "conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote."
The Deep State feds in Washington, the report said, held the premise that "somebody might have actually believed the meme and thus had their vote stolen away by trying to cast it as a text message."
Mackey was convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison, although he contested that at the appellate court level.
But, the report said, "Under that same premise, it must be assumed that Trump supporters might be duped by Kimmel's suggestion and attempt to vote on Thursday or Friday after Election Day. Thus, they would be deprived of their vote as well. Kimmel must be investigated and charged with the very same crime."
He begged his audience: "If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday."
The Department of Justice, after trial, boasted, "Douglass Mackey, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 7 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to interfere with potential voters' right to vote in the 2016 election for the Office of the President of the United States. Douglass Mackey, also known as 'Ricky Vaughn,' was previously convicted of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights at trial by a federal jury in Brooklyn. Mackey was convicted of the charge in March 2023 following a three-week trial."
U.S. attorney Breon Peace, at the time, said, "One of the foundational rights we hold as Americans, a right that many fought so hard to obtain, is the right to vote. The defendant weaponized disinformation in a dangerous scheme to stop targeted groups, including black and brown people and women, from participating in our democracy. This groundbreaking prosecution demonstrates our commitment to prosecuting those who commit crimes that threaten our democracy and seek to deprive people of their constitutional right to vote."
The RedState report explained, "Now, there was a time when we could all sit back and hear that joke, chuckle a little bit, and move on. That time has passed. The DOJ is on record declaring that joking that people should vote after the election is a very serious and actionable crime."
The report continued, "The Department of Justice must immediately act upon this blatant criminal behavior. Kimmel, whose comedy has all the freshness of a bottle of Centrum Silver, used a 20-minute opening monologue to disparage former President Donald Trump and his supporters. The crux of his diatribe – Republicans should not vote for Trump."Unfortunately, his on-camera descent into madness culminated with a very specific criminal act. It was documented for everyone to see. On tape, archived forever."
RedState reported, "There's no gray area here at all. Kimmel did exactly what Mackey was arrested for. The Justice Department under Biden and Harris must, in their relentless pursuit to save democracy by combatting 'misinformation,' arrest Jimmy."
The man who brutally assaulted Paul Pelosi during a break-in has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, ABC News reported.
David DePape learned his fate Tuesday in California state court, where he was found guilty in June of assaulting Pelosi and trying to kidnap his wife Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.).
DePape was already sentenced to 30 years in federal prison over the violent 2022 break-in at the Pelosis' San Francisco home.
The assailant struck Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer as police confronted the burglar at the Pelosi home in October 2022. The brutal attack was captured on policy bodycam.
DePape apologized during his federal trial, saying he snapped when his "plan" to kidnap then-Speaker Pelosi was "ruined." Nancy Pelosi was away in Washington at the time.
Pelosi had testified in court about the harrowing experience of waking up to find a strange man in his bedroom.
"He seemed very intent on what he was going to do," he recounted.
In June, DePape was convicted of false imprisonment of an elder by violence or menace, residential burglary, threatening a family member of a public official, dissuading a witness by force or threat and aggravated kidnapping.
Paul Pelosi described the ongoing impact of the assault in a letter to the judge pleading for the maximum punishment. Pelosi said the family is "traumatized" and he still has headaches and balance issues from the assault, which fractured his skull.
Judge Harry Dorfman, who oversaw the state case, refused a request from DePape's lawyers for a new trial. The Pelosi family said the new life sentence sends a message that political violence is never acceptable.
"Today’s sentence of life without parole gives our Pop same measure of legal justice and, we hope, a message to others that political violence against elected officials or their family members will not be tolerated, minimized or condoned. We must each do our part to build a peaceful democracy," the family said.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the state conviction ensures that DePape "will face consequences for his heinous crimes against the Pelosi family and our democracy."
DePape was resentenced in the federal case because he did not receive a chance to speak to the court. He received the same sentence of 30 years after resentencing.
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Businessman and conservative firebrand Steve Bannon, caught in the bull's-eye of the Democrats' lawfare campaigns against President Donald Trump and jailed for refusing to comply with the partisan agenda of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's special committee on Jan. 6, 2021, has returned to his "War Room" broadcasts on fire.
According to comments transcribed by the Gateway Pundit, he promised Pelosi, "Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things, to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me. Nancy Pelosi, take out your No. 2 (pencil) and write this down. This show has never been more powerful. … The audiences behind it have never been more powerful. The audience has never been more powerful. And we're going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on 5th of November, and then we're going to secure the deal after that."
He said, "It's Tuesday, the 29th of October in the Year of Our Lord 2024. We're, what, six and a wake up away from one of the most important political days in the history of this country. But I want to make sure everybody understands something."
"We have two things we're going to talk about today, the get out to vote effort, focused on our first phase, which is November 5th. …I have never heard, and I think most people would agree, the rhetoric that's come out about American citizens calling this audience, not just Donald Trump, and not the people around Donald Trump. That's bad enough. Calling us fascists, but calling you fascists. Saying that that fantastic, that amazing rally in Madison Square Garden that could never be pulled off by Kamala Harris or the Democrats. With that energy and people from Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk, just the broad cross-section you had of American entrepreneurs, Vivek Ramiswami, you had these powerhouses up there. They're trying to smirch that with one influencer's throw away, not funny line.
"I can tell you in coming from and being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African-American and Hispanic detest Kamala Harris. They detest her."
And he continued, "Look, Elon Musk is one of the smartest guys in the world, if not the smartest practical engineer in the world. Charlie Kirk is incredibly smart. Look where they've put their efforts over the last couple of months. Look where Elon Musk wrote $150 million worth of checks the last couple of months. It is flat out, get out the vote. And that's this audience comes in. Your efforts have been magnificent. The co-hosts that have done this for four hours a day and a couple of hours on Saturday, and then plus other streaming we've done with Grace and Mo, the incredible thing of these people stepping up is everything to motivate you to make sure that you get out and vote…"
He said the second part is that four months in prison "empowered me. I am more energized and more focused than I've ever been in my entire life. I can see clearly, just like in 2016 and in 2020, exactly what's going on here and what we have to do to defeat it. I want to go back through the three phases. Number one is 5 November. All that matters right now in places like Pennsylvania, and in Michigan, and in Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, obviously other states, but these seven battleground states, is to deliver something that takes us to where Ohio and Florida are today…"
He said Kamala Harris simply can't generate "any enthusiasm."
"So No. 1, on November 5th, we have to crush them at the ballot box. There's only one way to do that. The commercials aren't going to do it. The only thing that's going to do it is you're putting your shoulder to the wheel. The hard work of walking precincts, the hard work of working phone banks, the hard work of texting nonstop. We have to put in superhuman efforts to support the Elon Musk of the world, to support the Charlie Kirk of the world, to support the other organizations that are out there doing this.
Bannon, a former Trump adviser, had refused demands from Pelosi's partisans to turn over confidential communications between himself and Trump around the time of the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Congress demanded his records, but he explained they were protected by presidential privilege and Congress was not qualified to demand them. Eventually, President Trump released his hold on the information and Bannon said he would comply, but partisans in Congress pressed charges anyway.
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A new report charges that a doctor studying the impact of puberty-blocking drugs on children found they didn't help, so she is hiding the results because they could be used by those opposing the transgender ideology adopted as a government goal by the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration.
The New York Post reports the "woke" doctor refused to release the results of the study, funded by $10 million in tax money.
"A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients' mental health," the report charged.
The Post explains she worries the research could one day be used in court to argue "we shouldn't use blockers."
That maneuver, critics charged in the report, "flies in the face of research standards and deprives the public of 'really important' science in a field where Americans remain firmly divided."
The study for the National Institutes of Health involved 95 children, average age 11, to whom researchers delivered puberty-blocking drugs starting in 2015.
The drugs inhibit bodily development, such as the development of breasts and such.
One of the other researchers, Boston College clinical and research psychologist Amy Tishelman, said she understands the politics behind the decision, but said, "It's really important to get the science out there."
Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist and a transgender youth expert, told The Post she was "shocked" and "disturbed" by the word the details were being concealed.
The Daily Caller News Foundation explained that Olson-Kennedy "reportedly feared that in light of recent attempts to limit the procedure, the results of the study showing no improvement to mental health outcomes may reveal that 'we shouldn't use blockers because it doesn't impact [the kids].'"
The Times revealed that about one-quarter of the study subjects reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, while nearly 8% had attempted suicide.
Olson-Kennedy told the Times the study did not show improved trends.
She had claimed, in a report to the NIH, that study participants should have "decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury, and suicidality, and increased body esteem and quality of life over time."
The report explained, "In April, England's National Health Service (NHS) disallowed puberty blockers for children following a four-year review conducted by independent researcher Dr. Hilary Cass, writing in her report, 'for most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress.'"
A Finnish expert on pediatric gender medicine confirmed last year that 80% of gender-questioning children eventually grow out of it and accept their bodies without medical intervention, the report confirmed.
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Kamala Harris, and many of her Democratic Party compatriots, have a long record of describing President Donald Trump in horrific terms, such as "Hitler."
Previously, they've been accused of "priming" Democrats to do violence, especially if Trump wins the 2024 election in a few days.
Now it is Fox News that is reporting two top Republican leaders in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are calling on her to quit the incitement.
The report explains they are telling Harris, in a joint statement, to "stop calling GOP nominee former President Trump a 'fascist.'"
"This summer, after the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that 'we can't allow this violence to be normalized.' In September, after President Trump escaped yet another close call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that 'we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,'" the statement charges.
"These words have proven hollow. In the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over. The Vice President's words more closely resemble those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own earlier appeal to civility," they charge.
McConnell and Johnson accuse the Democrats of, by calling Trump a "fascist," inviting "another would-be assassin to take a shot."
"Vice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions. We have both been briefed on the ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump by adversaries to the United States, and we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats," the statement said.
That's the essential message Harris and other Democrats, like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, have been sending to their followers.
WND previously reported that commentator John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist has charged that she's carried on with such rhetoric to "prime Democrat voters for violent resistance should Trump win in November."
He cited a long list of examples of her extremism:
During a Fox News interview, he explained, "She became visibly upset after Baier (Baier) played a clip of former President Donald Trump calling out the weaponization of government and the endless investigations and lawfare he's been subjected to. The vice president, her voice rising in outrage, jabbed her finger at Baier and said, 'You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.'"
Also, Davidson explained, "At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this week she told the crowd that former President Donald Trump considers anyone who doesn't support him to be an enemy of the United States. 'He is saying he would use the military to go after them.'"
Just days ago, "Harris claimed without a hint of irony that if Trump is elected he'll use the Department of Justice 'as a weapon against his political enemies,' adding, 'You know who does that? Dictators do that.' At one point during the show, she agreed with a caller who said Trump will lock 'anyone who doesn't look white into camps,' replying, 'You've hit on a really important point and expressed it I think so well."
Davidson noted, "Even before Harris seized the Democratic nomination from President Joe Biden, the idea that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy was the refrain of the Biden campaign. Harris has taken that theme and run with it."
He explained Harris' obsession with the idea that Trump would hurt America:
"The purpose of it isn't just to scare voters into casting their ballot against the former president, or to provoke some unstable would-be assassin into taking a shot at Trump (although some Democrats no doubt see that as a happy by-product of this Trump-as-dictator rhetoric). Its main purpose is to prime Democrat voters for violent resistance should Trump win in November," he charged.
He suggested a comparison of "the lopsidedness of the rhetoric between the Trump and Harris campaigns."
"Trump often makes sweeping (and mostly true) statements about the deep state, about the border and illegal immigration, about crime, about how Harris and the Democrats are destroying the country. But when he uses the phrase 'destroying the country,' he's talking about things like crime, homelessness, drug addiction, rampant inflation, and the cost of groceries. These things, he says, are the result of policies Democrats have put in place. If you're looking for someone to blame, he says, blame Biden and Harris, because all these problems are their fault."
Harris, and her Democrats, are "pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the powers of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That's an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don't say things like that unless you're hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a second Trump term."
He warned the rhetoric goes further: "After all, if you really thought that Trump would order the military and the Justice Department to round up you and your family, wouldn't you do anything to stop him? Wouldn't you take to the streets to save your country and thwart the rise of a fascist dictatorship? At least two would-be assassins have taken the Democrats' anti-Trump rhetoric seriously. Harris is hoping that many more people will between now and Election Day, respond by rejecting a second Trump term — in the streets, if they must."
He pointed out the Democrats already used that strategy: in 2020.
"During the BLM riots in the summer of 2020, Harris herself was out in front egging on the rioters, infamously working to raise bail money for those who had been arrested. Of the protests themselves, she said this in a June 2020 interview with Stephen Colbert: 'Everyone beware. They're not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they're not gonna stop after Election Day … They're not gonna let up, and they should not.'"
They used the unrest coming from BLM and Antifa riots, which did billions of dollars in damage to American cities, to "damage Trump's reelection campaign."
If, in fact, Harris is a "left-wing radical," she would have little concern "if a couple of neighborhoods here there get burned to the ground, " or "young women get raped and killed by illegal immigrants," or apartment complexes "get taken over by criminal alien gangs," because it's in "service of a greater goal."
He warned, "What Harris and the Democrats are doing with this line about Trump rounding up Americans and putting them in camps is preparing the ground for massive civic unrest in the event of a Trump victory. The purpose of the unrest would be to cripple Trump's administration before he even takes office and to disrupt normal life for so many Americans that they will rue the day they ever voted for Trump. … It's exactly what Harris is planning for and hoping to provoke if Trump wins."
The more recent rhetoric has followed a campaign, pursued for years by Democrats and media organizations, that Trump actually is a "Hitler," suggesting that anything goes if the goal is to stop Trump.
Newly released audio from the 911 calls on the day former President Donald Trump was shot at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally revealed panic among attendees, CNN reported. One man was shot to death, while another two were wounded in the assassination attempt on Trump.
Trump narrowly missed a kill shot to the head when a gunman opened fire at the Butler Farm Show venue where he was speaking on July 13. Trump was hit in the ear, but others struck by the gunman's bullet weren't so lucky.
On Thursday, Jim Acosta spoke to John Miller, the network's chief law enforcement reporter, about the emergency calls made following the shooting. "Seeing for the first time, or really hearing, is a visceral sense of panic and fear," Miller explained.
"You hear the caller, but you hear the screaming and yelling in the background and the challenge faced by the 911 operators who were being deluged with calls," Miller added. He said the operators did their jobs well, but the scene was harrowing for all those involved.
The callers sounded panicked as several people phoned in the shooting, with some reporting injuries. NBC News reported that the calls were released Wednesday following a lawsuit with the network and others after the town initially refused.
The first call came in at 6:12 p.m. from a female caller. "Gunshots at the Trump rally. Gunshots--" the woman told the dispatcher.
"Yep. The police are on the way there," the dispatcher interrupted. The woman shot back, "Better get over here quick!"
Another male caller reported that he was in "the green section" with an injured party but that they were being evacuated from the venue. "They just tried to kill President Trump. You may want to make note of that," the caller said.
The calls revealed the scene that rallygoers that day experienced thanks to many failures that led to an unthinkable incident. Suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, somehow made it to a roof with a direct sightline of 200 yards to Trump during the outdoor event.
He was able to do so while carrying a rifle despite law enforcement presence, including the Secret Service. The agency's director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned from her post 10 days after the shooting amid outcry over the blatant failures that nearly cost the then-presumptive GOP presidential nominee his life.
Besides the release of the 911 tapes, little else has been given to the public about the event. Questions remain, including whether Trump will be able to trust the Secret Service to protect him going forward after two more close calls with would-be assassins.
Unfortunately, the incident left rallygoer Corey Comperatore, 50, dead from a gunshot wound. David Dutch, 57, and Jim Copenhaver, 74, were also wounded but survived their injuries.
The people in Butler were there to see their favorite political candidate speak. Instead, they were treated to a frightening scene of carnage that could have ended Trump's life if it weren't for the way he miraculously turned his head away at the perfect moment.
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For years already Democrats have tried to tarnish President Donald Trump by calling him a threat to democracy.
They contend that his challenges to the 2020 election results, which were the result of a voting process that raised multiple integrity questions, meant he was trying, and would continue to try, to overthrow the government.
Their rhetoric for the 2024 campaign has gone to extremes: They claim he's "Hitler," he'll use the military to go after those he dislikes, he'd use the power of government to jail them, they say.
In fact, polling shows that, "Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a 'save democracy' platform. The poll sampled 5,016 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. When asked whether Trump or Harris 'would do a better job' of "defending against threats to democracy," 43% picked Trump while 40% picked Harris," reported Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage."
He explained, "The result was crushing for not just many in the Harris campaign but the press and pundits who have been unrelenting in announcing the end of democracy if Harris is not elected."
He said there is a "growing hysteria among press and pundits proclaiming the imminent end of democracy if Kamala Harris is not elected. The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world."
He noted that those who agree democracy is being threatened disagree with the Democrats' claims on the source of that threat.
"While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44%) more than Biden (33%) in protecting democracy," Turley reported.
He cited ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, represented Wyoming in Congress until voters tossed her from office following her alignment with Democrats who wanted to impeach and remove President Trump, and then blame him for the all factors of the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington.
She alleges that if Americans don't vote for Harris, 2024 "may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast."
Turley responded, "I have long criticized the apocalyptic, democracy-ending predictions of Biden, Harris, and others as ignoring the safeguards in our system against authoritarian power. Nevertheless, Harris supporters have ratcheted up the rhetoric to a level of pure hysteria. Recently, Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump's disbarred former lawyer, told MSNBC that if Trump wins the election, he will 'get rid of the judiciary and get rid of the Congress.'"
Television hosts have been talking about an enemy's "list."
Even in Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed, "I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail."
Turley noted that Congress, in fact, did make Biden president following that 2021 riot, and judges did rule against challenges.
"Our system was put through a Cat 5 stress test and did not even sway for a moment," he said.
He noted the Democrats still trot out their well-known claims that democracy will die without Harris in the White House.
But, he said, "The public is not buying it."
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Democrats, actually for years already, repeatedly have wildly claimed that President Donald Trump is a "Hitler," a strategy that encourages violence against him because, after all, if he truly is a "Hitler" society's limits on opposition are lifted in order to prevent the horrors that could follow.
Kamala Harris' rhetoric repeatedly has gone into that twilight zone.
Now there's another coalition using the same attack on Trump, according to columnist John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist.
It's the Atlantic, which unleashed an "outlandish hit piece" on Trump, claiming he advocated for Hitlerian ideals, a wild claim by Jeffery Goldberg that "was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump."
It, the commentary charged, is "part of a larger psy-op to justify mass post-election violence if Trump wins in November, to signal activists to reject the results of the election, to divide the military, and to coax an insurgency out of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party and unleash it on American cities."
Kamala Harris already has been quoting from the charges, but not the rejection of those by witnesses.
The publication claimed it was ex-Trump chief of staff John Kelly that made the claims against Trump.
Harris' own version of the claims? "He does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military that is loyal to him personally. One that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States."
"This is not just the normal heated rhetoric that comes out in the final weeks of a close presidential election. This is something else. It is at least a tacit call for violent resistance, for insurrection, and even for a third assassination attempt against Trump," the commentary explained.
Trump already has been targeted in recent months by two assassination attempts.
"It's hard to overstate how reckless and dangerous this is two weeks before an election that Harris appears to be losing. Having staked out this rhetorical ground, what is she supposed to say if she loses the election? How is she supposed to concede? Will she come out and say, 'Sorry everyone we tried hard to save America but now you must all live peacefully under the new Hitler?' She's not going to say that. She can't now. She's going to call for resistance. 'Patriotic resistance,' she might call it, but it will be coded as a call for street violence or worse. After all, you don't just accept a Hitler-like, fascist regime. You fight it any way you can."
The "Hitler" name-calling, Davidson wrote, follows Joe Biden's repeated insistence that Trump is an existential threat to democracy.
That created an "opening" for assassins, he said, and it happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.
When Biden was tossed aside by Democrats, Harris picked up the refrain, "pushing the line that a Trump presidency meant the end of America as we know it. And so, inevitably, there was a second assassination attempt."
Others in the campaign have included White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, who has ranted about the danger from Trump.
"Is this reckless and dangerous? Is it designed to prepare the ground for mass violence? Is it assassination prep? Yes, it's all those things. But understand that we're not dealing with a normal political party here. We're dealing with an ensconced institutional oligarchy that has already executed a coup against the previous Democrat nominee (and sitting president), forcing him to end his reelection campaign. They have already discarded millions of Democrat primary votes to install their hand-picked successor despite their claims to care about 'preserving democracy.' They have already refused to tone down their incendiary rhetoric despite two assassination attempts against Trump. In other words, these are not people who care about political norms. They care about power and power alone," Davidson explained.
Previously, Davidson had warned how Harris over and over is diving into extremism to try to ramp up the possibility of violence against Trump.
He cited her comments including: "You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him."
And her claim he "would use the military" to go after his critics.
At that time, he wrote, "The purpose of it isn't just to scare voters into casting their ballot against the former president, or to provoke some unstable would-be assassin into taking a shot at Trump (although some Democrats no doubt see that as a happy by-product of this Trump-as-dictator rhetoric). Its main purpose is to prime Democrat voters for violent resistance should Trump win in November."
He said Harris is "pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the powers of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That's an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don't say things like that unless you're hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a second Trump term."
A former congressman who opposed Trump and Missouri's Democratic Senate nominee, Lucas Kunce, held a campaign rally on Tuesday.
During the event, they opened fire on private property, something that one would assume wouldn't be difficult for a competent adult, but ended up injuring a reporter.
Ryan Gamboa, a reporter, was hurt when something that seemed like a bullet fragment or a deflected round struck his arm. The perpetrators were firing a high-powered rifle at steel targets a few yards away.
On Wednesday, several days following his campaign event, Kunce informed the local sheriff about the incident, according to his announcement.
The Daily Wire was looking into whether the Democrat may have broken the law by not reporting the gunshot incident, so he apparently called the Clinton County Sheriff thereafter.
The event is still "under investigation," according to the sheriff's department, so they cannot divulge any other details at this time.
The internet lit up with stories surrounding the shooting that took place in a campaign where the Democrat is attempting to take over from a Second Amendment-loving Republican who is overall well-liked.
Remember: Guns don’t shoot people. Lucas Kunce shoots people
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 24, 2024
Federalist CEO Sean Davis, also weighed in on the disastrous campaign event, saying, "I've heard of campaigns going out with a bang, [but] this is ridiculous."
Hawley spoke out in numerous tweets following the shooting, seeming to take full advantage of his opponent's blunder, offering questions, criticism, and even protection.
"Lucas Kunce sets up a fake range to get a fake photo-op … and shoots a guy. It’s nuts. But it’s Kunce," Hawley said in one tweet.
He questioned his opponent's legal status in another, saying "Serious question. Missouri law requires any person who causes injury with a firearm to file a report with law enforcement immediately. Did Lucas Kunce do that? Failure to do so is a crime."
Hawley marveled at the response from the political hopeful, saying "Kunce shoots a guy and says 'it’s a great day at the range,'" and in yet another tweet on the event offered a possible solution for reporters: "I will provide safety gear for all reporters covering Lucas Kunce. Free of charge. Enjoy!"
One Direction star Liam Payne had multiple drugs in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony, including a potent combination called "pink cocaine," a partial autopsy found.
The new details shed some light on what led to Payne's tragic demise at 31 years of age at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The boy band singer had a potent mix of drugs in his system, including "pink cocaine" - a term for a cocktail of methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and other psychoactive drugs – as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack.
An improvised aluminum pipe, used for smoking drugs, was found in Payne's hotel room - which was in a state of complete disarray, with drugs everywhere and the TV smashed up.
Payne reportedly was accompanied by sex workers shortly before his death, but prosecutors say he was alone in the room before his fatal fall.
Moments before he died, the hotel called the police to ask for help with a guest who was potentially in life-threatening danger.
"We need to send someone with urgency because I don't know if the guest's life is in danger because he is in a room with balcony, and we are afraid he could do something that threatens life," the worker told emergency services.
Minutes later, Payne's body was found in the hotel's inner courtyard.
The preliminary autopsy found that Payne died from "multiple traumas" and "internal and external bleeding." Investigators believe Payne was not fully conscious because he did not adopt a "reflexive posture" to cushion the fall.
"Due to the position in which the body was found and the injuries from the fall, it is presumed that Payne did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself and may have fallen in a state of semi or total unconsciousness," the preliminary autopsy said.
Police have interviewed a hotel employee suspected of providing drugs to Payne the day he died. The person has not been charged.
Payne's body will not be returned to his family until the autopsy is complete.
"We are heartbroken. Liam will forever live in our hearts and we'll remember him for his kind, funny, and brave soul. We are supporting each other the best we can as a family and ask for privacy and space at this awful time," his family said in a statement.
Payne leaves behind a 7-year-old son, Bear, whom he shares with singer Cheryl Cole.