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As PJM’s Matt Margolis noted yesterday, “Robert Telles, a Las Vegas Democratic official, was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of killing a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, allegedly over negative media coverage he received.” This shooting represents an alarming escalation in the Left’s proclivity for political violence, but as far as at least one “journalist” is concerned, the incitement isn’t coming from the Left at all, but from — you guessed it — Donald Trump, who for many Leftists appears to be the source and summit of all evil in the modern world, responsible for the actions even of people who oppose and hate him.
At a Thursday press conference on the killing, a reporter addressed Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, saying that it was probably not an appropriate time to talk politics. Lombardo asked the obvious question: “So why are we talking politics then?” Undaunted, the reporter plowed on with her political question, asking Lombardo if he thought Telles’ violent action was a result of “former President Trump’s normalization of violence against journalists.”
Lombardo responded mildly: “No, I think this is probably an inappropriate venue to speculate on that or opine on that.” All right. But when exactly did Trump normalize violence against journalists? It would have been inappropriate indeed for the Las Vegas sheriff to rush to defend the former president, but the reporter’s question itself was even more inappropriate, as it was yet another manifestation of one of the Left’s favorite Big Lies: that conservative speech is tantamount to violence and at the very least constitutes incitement. Trump harshly criticized the establishment media, and with ample justification, but the claim that he normalized violence against journalists is just hysteria, not to mention defamation.
It’s also beyond absurd to assume that Telles, a Democrat, would be influenced by a man for whom Telles’ party has had nothing but contempt at best. The Democrats tell us every day, even now when he has been out of the White House for over a year and a half, that Trump is evil, stupid, corrupt, dishonest, and utterly bereft of redeeming qualities. But when he criticized far-Left journalists, then supposedly the far-Left Robert Telles was moved to violence.
Maybe it’s something in the water in Las Vegas. Back in February, a man named Quintez Brown shot at Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. Brown was a black activist who had been interviewed on MSNBC by Joy Reid, has agitated for gun control, and his $100,000 bail was paid by Black Lives Matter. Despite all this, however, the Las Vegas Sun did its best to obscure that record, referring to Brown only as a “political activist” and adding: “While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.”
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CogitoErgoSum says
A more appropriate question would have been to ask what was the motive for the murder and to let the Sheriff respond to that. Maybe the Democrat did not like some of the questions the reporter that he murdered had been asking him.
somehistory says
Did Mr. Trump incite lee harvey oswald to shoot JFK? Did Mr. Trump incite the mozlum sirhan sirhan to murder RFK? He was alive back then, though only a teenager. and then a young man in his early twenties; but he must have been influencing criminals to take out their enemies. so, did he incite pol pot or ho chi minh? Inquiring minds want to know.
Perhaps the idiot “reporter” can dig deep enough to find a link that doesn’t exist.
somehistory says
One question; the article says “This shooting” and the headline says “stabbing.” I recall reading about this in the news feed, and I believe it said he was stabbed outside his home.
Stabbing or shooting?
CogitoErgoSum says
Other articles I have seen about this say it was a stabbing. The reports say the police have not found the weapon used in the attack but it’s being called a stabbing.
somehistory says
thank you. that is what I thought. they did find the perp’s dna at the scene.
gravenimage says
After Nevada Democrat Is Arrested for Stabbing a Reporter, Another Reporter Blames…Donald Trump
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This is horrifying–and the first I have heard about this.
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…coming from the Left at all, but from — you guessed it — Donald Trump, who for many Leftists appears to be the source and summit of all evil in the modern world, responsible for the actions even of people who oppose and hate him.
It’s also beyond absurd to assume that Telles, a Democrat, would be influenced by a man for whom Telles’ party has had nothing but contempt at best.
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Agreed on both points. Firstly, President Trump *never* advocated violence against journalists, nor has he ever been violent towards journalists himself. (One might argue that he has sometimes been rude, but that is a very different matter).
Nor has there been any rash of conservatives attacking journalists–in fact, I know of *no* such cases. In fact, before this case the most infamous attack on a journalist here in the US was Antifa physically attacking conservative journalist Andy Ngo.
Finally, as noted, why would a Democrat be influenced by anything Trump did, in any case? This makes no sense at all. But these days *everything* has to be blamed on Trump by the Left.