{"id":2294304,"date":"2024-07-13T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attempt-to-murder-trump-is-actually-our-biggest-threat-to-democracy-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T02:12:38","slug":"attempt-to-murder-trump-is-actually-our-biggest-threat-to-democracy-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attempt-to-murder-trump-is-actually-our-biggest-threat-to-democracy-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to murder Trump is actually our biggest threat to democracy &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fattempt-to-murder-trump-is-actually-our-biggest-threat-to-democracy-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2294304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how an\u200c attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump poses\u2062 a threat to democracy. Just days before the Republican National Convention, a gunman tried to kill\u2064 Trump during a\u200c rally in Pennsylvania. While Trump narrowly escaped harm, the incident highlights a dangerous threat to democracy. The article criticizes the \u200bRepublican Party \u200bestablishment for \u2063not supporting Trump&#8217;s nomination, despite overwhelming \u2064voter support. It contrasts this with\u200c Democratic candidate Joe Biden, who faced\u2062 little opposition in the primaries. The article argues that the attempt on \u2064Trump&#8217;s life poses a greater\u2064 risk to democracy \u2063than other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-minority-leader-mcconnell-infrastructure-plan-is-lumped-up-list-of-leftist-priorities\/\" title=\"Senate Minority Leader McConnell: Infrastructure plan is lumped up list of leftist priorities\">political controversies<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Attempt to murder Trump is actually our biggest threat to democracy<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/tiana-lowe-doescher\/\">Tiana Lowe Doescher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-13T19:23:57-04:00\">July 13, 2024 7:23 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Just two days before the Republican National Convention commences to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3076398\/democrats-democracy-hysterics-exposed\/\" title>formally nominate Donald Trump for a third presidential bid<\/a>, a gunman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3081162\/trump-rally-shots-fired\/\" title>attempted to assassinate<\/a> the former president during a Pennsylvania rally. <\/p>\n<p>After a stunning round of audible gun shots, Trump was evidently a single inch from death, with a bullet appearing to graze his ear and bloody his face. But Trump, who briefly hid for safety beneath the podium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3081162\/trump-rally-shots-fired\/\" title>emerged defiant<\/a> with a fist pumped as his Secret Service detail huddled around him to corral him off to safety.<\/p>\n<p>According to a senior government official, Trump is safe. But democracy is not. In fact, more than Russian trolls or 2020 election truthers could ever dream of achieving, the attempt to assassinate the Republican presidential nominee is actually the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-consider-enacting-statute-to-increase-punishments-for-domestic-terrorism\/\" title=\"Lawmakers consider enacting statute to increase punishments for domestic terrorism\">single greatest threat<\/a> to our democratic experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party establishment, which pissed away more than $200 million on primary challengers other than Trump, did not want the former president to win the nomination for a third time in a row. But the voters unequivocally did. More than three-quarters of Republican primary voters, or 17 million Americans, voted for Trump. That\u2019s 3 million more than the Democrats who voted for the incumbent president. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden, of course, was safely cocooned by the Democratic Party, which cancelled presidential primaries outright in two states and blocked his challengers from appearing in other states, while the media pretended he did not succumb to the senility exposed at his disaster of a debate performance against Trump late last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Criminal law correctly maintains a very narrow definition for the incitement of violence. And even in common parlance, we don\u2019t hold political agitators directly or personally responsible for raising the temperature of a discourse. But two troubling truths cannot be denied.<\/p>\n<p>First, assassinating the democratically elected candidate for either party is tantamount to disenfranchising an entire half of the American electorate. That is what was one inch away from reality on a sweltering Saturday in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this attempted murder of Trump cannot be considered in a vacuum. Those who have deemed Trump the pre-eminent danger to democracy and demonized him beyond the norms of opposition to policy or character may not be responsible for the actual attempt on his life, but reckless demagoguery is responsible for normalizing neutralizing Trump by any means necessary. <\/p>\n<p>Impeachment failed twice, and four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waukesha-parade-attack-spotlights-the-danger-of-left-wing-prosecutors\/\" title=\"Waukesha Parade Attack Spotlights The Danger Of Left-Wing Prosecutors\">separate criminal cases<\/a> against Trump seem unlikely to fulfill their intended purpose of locking the former president up before Election Day. When one man has been cast as the Big Bad, the existential threat to humanity\u2019s first and last enforcer of the consent of the governed, someone will take such rhetoric both literally and seriously, and the promise of violently ending Trump\u2019s candidacy to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assassination attempt on Donald Trump just before the Republican National Convention poses a significant threat to democracy, as it undermines the will of the voters who overwhelmingly supported him. The attempt on Trump&#8217;s life cannot be viewed in isolation, as it reflects a dangerous trend of demonizing political opponents to the point of violence. The failure of other attempts to remove Trump from power has only fueled this dangerous rhetoric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":2294305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump-shot.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34953,5894,34954,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2294304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-murder-attempt","tag-politics","tag-threat-to-democracy","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump-shot.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}