YOu are simply and completely full of shit on your assertion.
Just because the pipe bombs didn't go off didn't mean the righty asshole with that van that was plastered with what looked like campaign material for Trump wasn't a MAGA cretin with murderous intent.
And then there's this:
Trump Already Endorsed Political Violence. In El Paso, a Red Hat Showed He Was Listening.
The president's authoritarian movement lurches down a darker and more dangerous road than ever.
It is not some unfortunate coincidence that one of the Red Hats physically attacked a member of the media Monday night at a rally for Donald Trump, American president. From almost day one, journalists who cover Trump events have been corralled into a pen and ridiculed by the leader of this movement.
Trump attacks them for the gladiatorial rapture of the crowd, calling reporters "scum"—a nice bit of dehumanization, which history tells us always ends well—and suggesting they are the Enemy of the American People. He says he "hates these people"—journalists—but "would never kill them," a disgusting way to put the idea on the table.
His crowds respond by loudly jeering and screaming in the direction of the pen. They are primed to hate journalists, to blame them for the troubles and failures of The Leader and his Movement. Monday night in El Paso, it simply went to another level.
Just attended my first ?@realDonaldTrump? rally where my colleague BBC cameraman Rob Skeans was attacked by a Trump supporter. The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night #TrumpElPaso pic.twitter.com/Oiw8osPms3'
— Eleanor Montague (@EleanorMontague) February 12, 2019 The BBC cameraman, Ron Skeans, said the "very hard shove" came from the blindside, and the Red Hat shoved him twice before a blogger wrestled him away. "I didn't know what was going on," he says. He was just doing his job, filming the event, when he was assaulted from behind. His colleague, Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, called it "an incredibly violent attack."
"This is a constant feature of these rallies—a goading of the crowds against the media," O'Donoghue continued. He says he's been "spat at before."
According to the BBC, Trump checked with Skeans to see that he was OK, exchanging thumbs-up before continuing. That seems to be captured on video: Here is how Trump reacted when a BBC reporter was attacked at his rally last night.
Note that the crowd responds by chanting, "CNN sucks!" =
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 12, 2019 Minutes later, Trump was back to attacking the media, suggesting there's "collusion between the Democrats and the Fake News."
The British news service also reports that a Trump campaign official said the attacker was drunk. But he did not attack a member of the media, screaming "Fuck the media," simply because he was drunk. Donald Trump has not just attacked the media in dehumanizing language, or called them the enemy of the state. He also praised Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte for physically attacking a reporter—a crime for which Gianforte pled guilty to misdemeanor assault.
President Trump praising Rep. Greg Gianforte for body slamming a reporter, a crime for which Gianforte pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. pic.twitter.com/DS1z3YBE0C — Axios (@axios) October 19, 2018 This is an endorsement of political violence.
That charming performance came as Trump's White House was reportedly working with the government of Saudi Arabia to try to absolve Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of involvement in the atrocity murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We now know U.S. intelligence has assessed MBS ordered the assassination, and that a year before it occurred, the prince was caught on tape saying he would use "a bullet" on him.
Trump has long embraced violence from the rally podium, encouraging his supporters to punch protesters in the face and offering to pay their legal bills. Throughout the campaign, a few of his supporters responded by...physically attacking protesters.
You'll notice the crowd's response to the attack last night was to chant "CNN sucks." That quickly became a primal call of "Trump! Trump! Trump!" They didn't see anything wrong. Why would they? These rallies are permanently hovering near the boiling point, and much of the volcanic anger is reserved for journalists covering the event. It is a hate movement.
Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy. pic.twitter.com/IhSRw5Ui3R — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 1, 2018']
The disturbing part of Trump’s jokes about Gianforte was the effect on the crowd. I saw one young man in the crowd making body slam gestures. He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat. I talked to him after the rally was over. He couldn’t stop laughing.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 19, 2018 This is an authoritarian spasm that, day by day, moves closer to accepting violence as a political solution. Trump's rhetoric has no doubt had some effect on people at the very fringes of society, like the die-hard supporter who sent bombs to CNN and major figures in the Democratic Party.
Trump called for civility, then went back to attacking the media. Or the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who cited some of the same anti-Semitic conspiracies Trump was pushing in the homestretch of the 2018 elections.
Trump went back to pushing them five days after the attack. Or even the mass shooter at the office of a Maryland newspaper, who'd held a grudge for many years but just happened to take action...now. Perhaps it was just a coincidence.
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