On Saturday, thousands of people paid large sums of money (at least $40,000 each) to hear President Trump praise police brutalists, and one or two people would pay $1 million to speak. He accepted President Trump's offer.
Both the WaPo (signed by Marianne Levine, Josh Dorsey, and Meghan Vazquez) and the NYT (Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher) dutifully published the headlines President Trump wanted.
Biden = Gestapo
In doing so, they accept as a mutual issue the question of whether a legal investigation has nothing to do with making Biden a Nazi.
The NYT goes on to say in five paragraphs that President Trump featured recordings of then-accused and now-convicted felons on January 6th. McGee describes these detainees as “people arrested in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.”
Trump entered the recording venue for the national anthem, which he performed with people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that attempted to disrupt Trump's certification. Biden's electoral victory. Trump praised the song.
There is no mention that most of these men assaulted police officers and one of the handful who did not was a Nazi who liked to dress up as Hitler.
400 wealthy people paid the equivalent of the average person's annual salary to watch President Trump praise violent police attackers, but the NYT did not mention the violence. WaPo never mentioned the video, only mentioning political violence in its explanation. Biden campaign reaction.
The NYT said Trump praised Rod Blagojevich, and WaPo said Trump claimed Henry Cuellar was only indicted on bribery charges because he was tough on border issues.
Compare that treatment to that of Zach Anderson of USA Today. The article focuses entirely on the recording, with three paragraphs discussing the importance of President Trump's focus on this recording, and a further explanation of how most singers can be sure they were accused of assault. Contains two paragraphs.
The recording is part of President Trump's efforts to cover up what happened when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's victory.
The attack on the Capitol led to President Trump's second impeachment and contributed to felony charges being brought against the former president for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
But on the campaign trail, President Trump embraced the January 6 defendants, calling them “incredible patriots” and “hostages” who were “horribly wronged.”
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It is not clear which defendants participated in the recording that President Trump played at the rally on January 6th, but the defendants who were being held in a Washington, D.C., jail at the time the recording is believed to have taken place are Many had been charged with assaulting police officers.
According to an analysis published by Just Security, an online forum hosted by New York University School of Law, the majority of the January 6 defendants who were being held in a D.C. jail on March 13, 2023, were charged with assaulting a police officer. It turned out that he had been accused. A person who advised the group that made the recording told The Washington Post that the recording was made in a Washington, D.C., prison in February 2023, but said he did not know who the singers were.
USA Today also managed to avoid taking Trump's bait of equating Biden with the Gestapo, even in the body of the article.
400 people paid a fortune to see President Trump praise the men who assaulted police officers. All 400 of them are directly supporting a culture of political violence. They need to be held accountable for their role in supporting political violence.
When that part is suppressed, when those 400 people are given permission to use their money to carry out political violence, political violence becomes the norm.
It's not that Trump manipulated easy scores to get unfavorable headlines for Joe Biden; that's the problem.
