"Dems, Republicans unite to honor shooting victims at charity ballgame"
Capitol Police officer David Bailey, who was injured in the attack, threw out the first pitch Thursday night.
ByDoug G. Ware and Andrew V. Pestano 16 June 2017
"Will shooting of a congressman be a turning point for unity?"
By the Editorial Board June 14, 2017 03:00 PM Updated June 14, 2017 03:00 PM
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article156197034.html
Tribalism by all politicians, with FEW exceptions, persists!
"Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and others stick with conspiracy theories after mail-bomb suspect’s arrest"
By Eli Rosenberg October 27, 2018 at 1:05 AM
"In the fever swamps of misinformation and hoaxes on the Internet, the evidence presented on Friday did little to quell the conspiracy mongering. But would the more-established conservative figures who had spread these conspiracy theories admit they made mistakes?
Actually, most continued to dig in."
It is hard to say you were wrong when your goal is to divide the country into two hating tribes!
Gaslight on immigrants? Fear mongering? Anger and aggression? STOP IT NOW!
"Donald Trump Celebrates Violence Against Journalists"
By Eric Lach October 19th 2018, 10:00 AM
Then the bombs started coming . . .
In times of terrible tribalism in America, we choose to unite! Shootings and bombings can bring s together if our leadership give us unity as their message. Will our President, VP, and Congress work to unite the country?
But not Trump or Pence . . .
"An Arrest in the Mail-Bombs Case, and Trump Against the Truth Once Again"
By Eric Lach October 26th, 4:25 PM
"Proper procedure and bureaucratic caution have never been impediments for Trump, but for the President, this is all a distraction. Friday morning, not long before news of Sayoc’s arrest broke, Trump tweeted, “Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on.” His supporters have spent the last few days proposing a conspiracy theory, with no evidence, that the bombs were part of a “false flag” operation to hurt the President politically. The tweet seemed like Trump preparing to endorse this view."
Does Donald Trump encourage violence at his rallies? Does a bear shit in the woods?
Mike Pence is clever, or maybe has a limited imagination. First he says Trump was joking about liking a body slam for a reporter. Sure he was. But the people at his rally are not you, Mike Pence, so some did not take the body slam comment as a joke.
Let me offer to educate or remind Mike Pence of Trump's penchant for preaching violence at this rallies. Trump "jokes" every time he preaches violence right? NOPE!
"Did Donald Trump Encourage Violence at His Rallies?"
A viral cartoon accurately presents several quotations by the then-presidential candidate, delivered on the campaign trail in 2015 and 2016.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/
He says no one blames Bernie Sanders for GOP shooting in 2017, so no one should blame Donald Trump for bombs. A man who worked on Sander's campaign shot a man.
Clever Pence is, however, wrong! Pence may have meant well, somehow, but I cannot see it because Trump has been promoting violence since 2015 in words that are incontrovertible. Sanders never promoted violence of any kind at any time.
BUT THE BIGGER FACT IS A FAILURE TO EVEN TRY TO BRING THE PEOPLE TOGETHER WHEN AMERICA NEEDS TO AVOID VIOLENCE!
Clever Pence is sing false equivalence to further divide the country when he should be working to unite the country, AS THE DEMS DID AFTER THE SHOOTING HE REFERRED TO!
Trump-Pence continue to divide the country at a time they should be working mightily to UNITE US!
The Dems response was that the attack hurt ALL OF AMERICA.
Trump's response is that he is the victim!? Who says that?
"The baseball shooting wasn’t an attack on the GOP. It was an attack on all of us."
By Stephen Stromberg June 14, 2017
"Headlines are calling it the “GOP baseball shooting.” But when James T. Hodgkinson III opened fire Wednesday morning on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and a group of other GOP members of Congress, he was not just attacking Republicans. He was attacking the republic."
The Democrats comments at the time of the shooting was sympathetic and harmonious.
"Early reports suggest partisanship may have motivated Hodgkinson. He apparently campaigned for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and hated the way Republicans have been running the government."
Clever Pence jumped on the fact the shooter worked on Sander's campaign. Sad.
"House majority whip, several others, shot at congressional baseball practice"
By David Lauter , Michael A. Memoli and Sameea Kamal Jun 14, 2017 | 6:20 AM
