{"id":2341570,"date":"2024-09-15T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-didnt-lower-temp-between-trump-assassination-attempts\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:05:05","slug":"dems-didnt-lower-temp-between-trump-assassination-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-didnt-lower-temp-between-trump-assassination-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Didn&#8217;t \u2018Lower Temp\u2019 Between Trump Assassination Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fdems-didnt-lower-temp-between-trump-assassination-attempts%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=2341570&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>Former President Donald Trump \u200bsurvived another assassination attempt when a man allegedly armed with a scoped AK-47-style rifle targeted him near the Trump International Golf Club. This incident follows a previous\u2063 attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania, which many felt was exacerbated by rhetoric\u200c from Democrats and the \u2063media, who were accused of fostering hostile sentiments against Trump and his supporters. <\/p>\n<p>Despite being wounded in the ear during the Pennsylvania incident, Trump faced continued disparagement from his political opponents. Democrats maintained a narrative portraying \u200dhim as an\u2062 existential threat to democracy, often using extreme language likening him to historical figures associated with tyranny and violence. President Biden and other Democratic leaders expressed the need to\u200d &#8220;lower \u200dthe temperature&#8221; in political discourse\u2062 even as they perpetuated narratives that stirred further division.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Convention reiterated these \u2062sentiments, amplifying \u2062aggressive rhetoric against Trump. In a subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">presidential debate<\/a>, Trump stated \u2064that inflammatory \u200dremarks made by political\u2064 opponents put his life \u200din jeopardy, asserting \u2064that their claims about him represented a true \u200cthreat to democracy. Vice\u200b President Kamala Harris also inaccurately accused Trump of inciting the Capitol riot, highlighting the ongoing contentious climate \u200cin \u200bAmerican politics. The summary suggests a pattern of escalating rhetoric and political violence in a\u2063 highly charged atmosphere leading up to the 2024\u200b presidential race.  <\/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\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump survived yet another assassination attempt on Sunday when a man allegedly armed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1835424438612906131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scoped &ldquo;AK-47-style rifle&rdquo;<\/a> aimed at the Republican from the bushes of the&nbsp;Trump International Golf Club&nbsp;in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>When an assassin first attempted to take Trump&rsquo;s life at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July, Democrats and media everywhere overlooked their roles in stoking the flames of hatred against the Trump and his supporters to insist that Americans must &ldquo;lower the temperature.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even Trump getting struck in the ear by a bullet meant to permanently remove him from the 2024 presidential race, however, wasn&rsquo;t enough to deter the blue party and their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/lowering-the-temperature-starts-with-ending-the-political-prosecutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-lawfare allies<\/a> from doubling down on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/19\/leftists-continue-eliminationist-rhetoric-days-after-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their violent rhetoric<\/a> after only a few days, if not hours.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of abandoning the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/the-left-spent-years-running-an-assassination-prep-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assassination prep campaign<\/a> that put Trump in danger in the first place, Democrats used the days following his fatal campaign event to further smear the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-fun-facts-about-failed-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan\/\" title=\"5 Fun Facts About Failed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\">potential future president<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1813544184386654675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next Hitler<\/a>, a &ldquo;threat to democracy,&rdquo; primary spreader of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812638396830876160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fascism<\/a>,&rdquo; and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/3rd-democrat-senator-calls-biden-step-aside-pressure-accelerates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;existential danger&rdquo;<\/a> to the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Just days after he demanded in an official Oval Office address that everyday Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nytimes\/status\/1812683544646291784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;lower the temperature in our politics,&rdquo;<\/a> President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/transcript-read-full-biden-interview-lester-holt-nbc-news-rcna162029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> his sitdown with NBC News&rsquo; Lester Holt to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/13\/the-trump-charlottesville-neo-nazi-misquote-is-a-political-hit-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely accuse<\/a> Trump of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/19\/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president-part-four\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">once again<\/a> calling a group of white supremacist neo-Nazis in Charlottesville &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden forgot to &ldquo;lower the temperature&rdquo; tonight. I mean, of course he forgot. Here he is repeating the debunked &ldquo;very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-question-on-everyones-mind-after-debate-who-is-running-the-country\/\" title=\"The Question on Everyone\u2019s Mind After Debate: Who Is Running the Country?\">fine people&#038;rdquo<\/a>; lie again about Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wsrKx99xyu\">pic.twitter.com\/wsrKx99xyu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joseph Massey (@jmasseypoet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmasseypoet\/status\/1813050161771196888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This pattern continued well into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/19\/politics\/democrats-highlight-threat-democracy-dnc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August<\/a>, where the party entertained and amplified incendiary rhetoric about Trump, his voters, and his policies. Speakers, the propaganda press, and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris alike <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/tracking-the-lies-of-the-left-at-the-dnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly lied<\/a> about Trump in an attempt to paint him as political enemy number one. <\/p>\n<p>By September&rsquo;s presidential debate, Trump warned the nation from the National Constitution Center stage in Philadelphia that he &ldquo;probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They talk about I&rsquo;m a &lsquo;threat to democracy,&rsquo;&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re the threat to democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Trump tried warn us mere DAYS ago on national TV:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. <\/p>\n<p>They talk about &lsquo;I&rsquo;m a threat to democracy&rsquo;&mdash; they&rsquo;re the threat to democracy.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7lN2QdYXRd\">pic.twitter.com\/7lN2QdYXRd<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1835451253758820657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That same night less than one week ago, the vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1833685223696978025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrongfully accused<\/a> Trump of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Harris&rsquo; claims that Trump encouraged people to &ldquo;attack&rdquo; and &ldquo;desecrate&rdquo; the halls of Congress, despite its erroneous nature, went unchecked by the ABC News debate moderators and the rest of corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats and the media who took their calls for partisan peace at face value meant what they said, they would have called out and corrected the inflammatory behavior plaguing the party. Instead, they continued their campaign to trick Americans into believing Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/retired-conservative-federal-judge-urges-224233386.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shouldn&rsquo;t be allowed to hold office<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Even after Sunday&rsquo;s events, media like NBC News were working overtime to pretend Trump, who has called attention to the Democrats&rsquo; role in facilitating the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/democrats-immigration-crisis-pushes-ohioans-to-the-breaking-point-whos-protecting-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nation&rsquo;s border crisis<\/a> in recent weeks, is the true partisan provocateur.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NBC&#8217;s Lester Holt: &#8220;Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-president-senior-aide-survives-assassination-attempt\/\" title=\"Ukrainian president senior aide survives assassination attempt\">apparent assassination attempt<\/a> comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-donald-trump-did-not-win-every-state-except-new-york-in-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: No, Donald Trump Did Not Win Every State Except New York In The 2020 Election\">make baseless claims<\/a> about Haitian immigrants&#8221; in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/apw9WQ1liR\">pic.twitter.com\/apw9WQ1liR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1835449928136462361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This second assassination attempt may be yet another example of the stunning failures and corruption plaguing the current regime, but it&rsquo;s no surprise considering Democrats&rsquo; commitment to fanning the political flames. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt on Sunday when a man, reportedly armed with a scoped &#8220;AK-47-style rifle,&#8221; targeted him from the bushes at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. This incident follows an earlier attempt on Trump&#8217;s life during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. At that time, Democrats and media outlets largely ignored their contributions to the climate of hatred directed at Trump and his supporters while calling for Americans to &#8220;lower the temperature.&#8221; Even after Trump was shot in the ear by a bullet intended to eliminate him from the 2024 presidential race, it did not stop Democratic leaders and their allies from intensifying their violent rhetoric within days. Instead of retracting their inflammatory campaign that endangered Trump&#8217;s life, they used the aftermath of this event to further vilify him as akin to Hitler and label him as a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221; and an &#8220;existential danger&#8221; to America.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after urging Americans in an official Oval Office address to reduce political tensions, President Joe Biden falsely accused Trump during an interview with NBC News&#8217; Lester Holt of referring to white supremacist neo-Nazis in Charlottesville as \u201cvery fine people.\u201d This contradiction highlighted Biden&#8217;s failure to heed his own advice about lowering political hostility. The trend continued into August at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago where party members amplified incendiary rhetoric against Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>By September&#8217;s presidential debate held at Philadelphia&#8217;s National Constitution Center, Trump warned that he might have been shot due to what others say about him: \u201cThey talk about I\u2019m a \u2018threat to democracy\u2019\u2014they\u2019re the threat.\u201d Just days prior during another debate night, Vice President Kamala Harris wrongly accused Trump of inciting violence during the January 6 Capitol riot; her claims went unchallenged by ABC News moderators or mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats and those who support them genuinely wanted peace as they claimed, they would have condemned such inflammatory behavior within their ranks instead of perpetuating narratives suggesting that Trump should be barred from office. Following Sunday&#8217;s events, outlets like NBC News continued portraying Trump\u2014who has recently highlighted Democrats&#8217; role in exacerbating border issues\u2014as a divisive figure. <\/p>\n<p>This second assassination attempt exemplifies ongoing failures within current leadership but is unsurprising given Democrats&#8217; dedication to escalating political tensions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2341571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53008574041_a80695ba40_o-scaled-e1726447051267.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34963,3933,34297,3634],"class_list":["post-2341570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assassination-attempts","tag-dems","tag-political-tension","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53008574041_a80695ba40_o-scaled-e1726447051267.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341570","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}