What Politician on the left said "too bad Trump's assassin failed"? And ZOMG Watters said to protest the administration? The horror! Stop the both-sides false equivalence bit. Sell it to someone that's buying it.
One congressional staffer posted that the gunman who wounded Trump should, “get you some shooting lessons.”
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Colo. state Rep. Steven Woodrow
Within minutes of Thomas Matthew Crooks peppering Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally with bullets, killing a hero firefighter and wounding Trump and two others, Colorado state Rep. Steven Woodrow
penned a post on X comparing the former president with the devil and bemoaning the sympathy his brush with death invited.
“The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are,” he wrote.
His post garnered nearly 2 million views before he deleted it, and eventually his entire account.
Tenn. state Rep. Antonio Parkinson
State Rep. Antonio Parkinson from Tennessee used the occasion of the first attempted assassination of a US president or presidential candidate in 43 years to sow conspiracy theories,
writing on X, “I certainly hope this is not a staged act. But…”
He provided no evidence whatsoever to back up his claim.
Tenn. state Sen. London Lamar
Another Volunteer State Democrat who put her poor taste on full display in the wake of Trump’s shooting was state Sen. London Lamar, who blamed “extremism from the MAGA regime” for bringing about the assassination attempt in a
now-deleted post on X.
Allegheny County Council member Bethany Hallam
Not wanting to leave county office holders off the list of ill-timed responses to the national near-tragedy, Bethany Hallam, at-large council member for Allegheny County, Pa., about 20 miles south of Butler, weighed in with snark.
According to her Republican counterpart Sam DeMarco, Hallam posted in response to a social media posting about Trump being shot with a sarcastic, “Wow, the crime in Butler County is out of control.”
Congressional staffer Jacqueline Marsaw
A congressional staffer of Democratic Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) thought she was being clever with a Facebook post —
captured by SuperTalk Mississippi News — in which she claimed to be anti-violence before urging Crooks to “get you some shooting lessons.”
“Ooops that wasn’t me talking,” she added, in an attempt at being cute.
The outlet screengrabbed several other repugnant posts before they were deleted, including suggestions that the shooting was staged, and taunting, “That’s what your hate speech got you!”
Missouri House candidate Jess Piper
If there were an award for the most deranged response to Trump’s shooting by a public figure, Jess Piper, executive director of left-wing advocacy group Blue Missouri who is also seeking a seat in the state House of Representatives, would be a sure contender.
Piper, the self-described “Dirt Road Democrat” from the Show Me State, expressed “horror” at seeing a
Trump-supporting emergency room doctor being interviewed after the rally.
She followed it up by casually wondering if such a physician would disregard their Hippocratic Oath on a whim.
“Would they render care to an undocumented person? A child who’s been raped? A gay person? A trans person?” she
asked her X followers, completely seriously.
Piper hasn’t walked back her bizarre remarks just yet, but later in a separate post, she finally acknowledged “there are likely hundreds of thousands of doctors who identify as Republican,” adding, “but to identify with Trump and attend his rally? My God.”