“It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” — President Joe Biden, July 8

On July 8, CNN reported that while defending his campaign in a video call with top donors, President Joe Biden said:

“We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye. We can’t go another day, another day, without explaining what he’s doing, and we have to go after him.”

Five days later, someone apparently took Biden up on his word and tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a campaign rally north of Pittsburgh.

“Will [Biden] be accused of advocating violence the way, say, Governor Palin of Alaska was accused of inspiring an attempt on a congresswoman’s life?” asks Dean Karayanis in a column posted in the New York Sun.

It is a question worth asking.

Biden and the left routinely describe Trump as a dire threat to the nation, as a fascist, as an authoritarian. The liberal New Republic ran a cover of Trump made up to look like Hitler with the headline: “American Fascism.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said just 11 days ago that “This is not a normal election … He must be stopped. He cannot be president! “

The left has openly pined for Trump’s death.

Just 10 days ago, we ran an article titled: “N.Y. Times Columnist Wants Trump Dead — Seriously.”

In May, we wrote an editorial titled: “What’s The Dems’ Plan B If Lawfare Doesn’t Stop Trump? We Have Some Ideas,” in which we noted that Democrats have “already made it clear that they will do anything to stop Trump.”

We posited several things Democrats might attempt if the fabricated legal attacks against Trump failed to stop him. Among them was:

The A-word. Democrats have been wishing Trump would die – Biden’s former press secretary, Jen Psaki, recently dreamed that: ‘Maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he’ll go to jail. Maybe he will die. Not to be too morbid. But maybe. He’s not a young man.’ Could some deranged Democrat actually act on this death wish?

Libs of TikTok compiled more than 2 minutes of video clips where Democrats call for political violence.

Rhetoric has consequences.

At least, that’s what the left and the media are always saying when they try to pin the blame for violence on a conservative. They blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh because of things he’d said on his radio show. They rushed to pin the shooting of then Rep. Gabby Giffords on Sarah Palin — because Palin had posted a map with crosshairs of 20 Democrats who’d flipped House seats in the previous election. We could cite a hundred such examples.

In fact, years after it was made perfectly clear that Palin’s map had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting, the New York Times ran an editorial dredging up that charge: “Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.” The Times said, “the link to political incitement was clear.”

The media freaked when Trump talked about a “bloodbath” should Biden get reelected – claiming he was encouraging violence when what he said was in the context of the U.S. auto industry being destroyed by Chinese-made electric vehicles.

The New York Times complained about Trump’s “violent language.”

He has long claimed electric cars will ‘kill’ America’s auto industry. He has called them an ‘assassination’ of jobs. He has declared that the Biden administration ‘ordered a hit job on Michigan manufacturing’ by encouraging the sales of electric cars.

So, will the press hold Biden and the left accountable for this assassination attempt? Trump was talking about cars. Biden was encouraging an attack on his political opponent.

Will those on the left start searching their souls about the language they’ve been using? Will they demand that their ranks tone down the rhetoric? Stop demonizing Trump as a grave threat to the country who must be stopped? Admit they were wrong?

Don’t count on it.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board