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Mew would wanna take a shot at Trump?

Dear Media,

Stop calling it an “assassination attempt” when there was no attempt.

Listen, folks…someone 500 yards away with a gun who didn’t take a shot didn’t attempt to take someone’s life. You can call it a plot, but it wasn’t an attempt.

Let’s say I plan to go jogging and I put on the little jogging shorts, the jogging shoes, and a headband, and I put in my Air Pods, and I stretch, and then I sit down to watch Ghostbusters for the 1784th time with a bucket of chocolate ice cream. Did I attempt to go jogging or did I only plan to go jogging? Now, if I go outside to jog and trip on my first step and start crying like a baby because I got an owie, then you can say I attempted to go jogging.

If this guy, a Republican Trump voter, had shot at Trump and missed, then you could call that an assassination attempt.

And how did this guy know Donald Trump was going to golf today? Hmmm.

Anyway, Donald Trump is blaming Biden and Harris for the hateful rhetoric. But remember, it was just a few hours before this “attempt” that he posted on Truth Social, “I hate Taylor Swift.” That’s hateful rhetoric. It literally has the word “hate” in it.

And, there’s no context. Why does he hate Taylor Swift? Is he jealous that she’s more popular than he is? Does he hate her music so much that he has to shit post about it? Does he hate her because she’s a woman? Or, is it because she endorsed Kamala Harris? Or…is it because after she endorsed, Harris, voting registration sites received hits in the hundreds of thousands?

What scares Republicans more than a John Hinkley wannabee are voters. It’s why they’re creating new laws to make voting harder, especially in Black-majority precincts.

In addition to the hateful rhetoric against Swift, Trump has been fear-mongering by spreading lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets, even though JD Vance has admitted they made it up to get the media’s attention.

There have been bomb threats because of this racist fear-mongering yet Trump said Haitian immigrants are more dangerous than bomb threats.

Did Donald Trump condemn the bomb threats and call for them to stop? No.

When Paul Pelosi was attacked by a hammer-wielding MAGAt inside his own home, did Trump condemn it? No. Trump didn’t even call for his son to stop his nonsense with the hate memes on it. Republicans thought it was hilarious for a senior citizen to be attacked and hit in the head with a hammer.

Donald Trump thinks if you call out his comments about being a dictator, then that’s hateful rhetoric. He believes if you point out that he’s quoting Hitler, that’s hateful rhetoric. If you remind people he wants to “delete” the Constitution, then he thinks that is hateful rhetoric. But what he doesn’t believe is hateful rhetoric is when he calls Kamala Harris a socialist, and a communist and tags her with the nickname "Komrade Kamala.” He doesn’t believe that mispronouncing her name intentionally to sound like the wrester, Kamala the Ugandan Giant is hateful rhetoric.

Yesterday, I tweeted, “Breaking news: Trump uninjured after nobody shot at him.” That post has over 800 replies with most of them from upset MAGAts. The irony here is that it’s true, nobody shot at Trump, and they’re trying to dox me. MAGAts are irony deficient.

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