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Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s would-be assassins

16 September 2024

9:14 PM

16 September 2024

9:14 PM

What happens when you continually demonize someone as “Hitler,” insist that he is “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy?”

Why, you get chaps like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to kill Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, two months ago. Yesterday, Crooks was joined by Ryan Wesley Routh, a self-described “revolutionary.” Routh who showed up at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach with an AK-style rifle and a GoPro video camera. The

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