I & I Editorial BoardAgainst our better judgment, we decided to read Cole Allen’s “manifesto,” written before he tried to carry out what officials say was his plot to kill President Donald Trump and various other administration officials.
When we did, we were surprised at how ordinary it was. Ordinary in the sense that it sounded like just about any Democrat or TDS sufferer you talk to these days.
Allen says he’s “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
Gee, where have we heard language like this before?
Democrats have been implying that Trump is a pedophile for more than a year, which is why they’ve been so desperate to keep the Jeffrey Epstein story alive. (See “The Sudden Epstein Fixation Is About One Thing Only: Getting Trump.”)
It had become so common to call Trump a rapist that George Stephanopoulos didn’t think twice when he asked Rep. Nancy Mace why she supported Trump despite his being found “liable for rape.” ABC News had to cough up $16 million and a written apology to settle the defamation suit Trump filed. But Democrats calling Trump a rapist is like dogs barking; it’s instinctive.
And Democrats have been accusing Trump of being a traitor since before he was first elected and well before Jan. 6, 2021. In fact, another would-be assassin cited it to justify his actions in June 2017, less than six months after Trump first took office.
James Hodgkinson, who targeted Republican lawmakers and nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, posted on Facebook in June 2017 that “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”
By the way, Amazon currently sells a “Trump is a traitor” flag for less than $20.
If anything, Allen is tame in his manifesto. He never calls Trump a Nazi or compares him to Hitler, or says he’s a threat to democracy who must be taken down – all of which various Democrats have asserted at one point or another.
He does go on to say that he was doing this on behalf of “the person raped in a detention camp… the fisherman executed without trial… a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.”
We don’t know what Allen is referring to specifically with most of the claims, since they have been regurgitated for years.
The “fisherman,” however, appears to refer to an unproven accusation widely circulated by Democrats that Trump “murdered” an innocent fisherman when the administration bombed a boat suspected of trafficking narcotics.
Vermont Sen. Peter Welch was one of them, saying Trump believes he “can accuse someone of being a criminal, or affiliated with a group of criminals, and based on that accusation alone grant himself the power to be judge, jury, and executioner.”
By Allen’s own words, then, he pins the blame on Democrats — including the party’s leaders — for his actions.
Not that any of this will cause Democrats or TDS sufferers to self-reflect, given that the previous attempts on Trump’s life only caused them to amp up their violent rhetoric. Even now, they are blaming Trump for the recurring efforts to take him out.
Is Trump guilty of using extreme language against his opponents? Unfortunately, yes. But we’d argue that Democrats got this particular ball rolling more than a decade ago when they started treating Trump as a pariah as soon as he started leading in the 2016 primaries. Trump has arguably simply been responding in kind.
In any case, Democrats should take their own often-given advice and break the cycle of violence. Acknowledge their culpability. Police their rhetoric. Who knows, maybe it could lead toward national unity and healing.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
We are all sick of this stuff
What I believe:
1) Trump-speak (for instance on Truth Social or extemporaneous) is rude and offensive only to those who didn’t try to get ahead in business in NY. He grew up around NY and this is the way he (and other successful New Yorkers) talk. If they didn’t talk in this aggressive manner they’d get stepped on and swept away.
It is interesting that the Left seems to oppose not any minorities but only those raised in America.
2) The chaos around Trump (for instance in the issues of Iran and immigration) is because either the previous Administration(s) created the problem (for instance the lack of immigration control in Biden’s Administration) or they allowed the problem to fester (as Iran did for nearly half a century). Instead of appeasing Iran and their theocratic fanatics Trump recognized and dealt with the problem. No others in nearly half a century (including those in the present or previous Congress (not even Rubio, as far as I know) even hinted at something that was apparent to Donald Trump.
I don’t know how the Iran conundrum will be solved, but I trust the Trump solutions more then the solutions of those who allowed Iran to get stronger.
As a matter of fact a very good case could be made against those who allowed Iran to prosper (by bribing them, as Obama and Biden did). As far as I’m concerned they are as culpable as the theocracy in Iran for the concomitant chaos in the Middle East and the world.
3) According to Merline, long time Democrat “Vermont Sen. Peter Welch was one of them [a sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS], saying Trump believes he “can accuse someone of being a criminal, or affiliated with a group of criminals, and based on that accusation alone grant himself the power to be judge, jury, and executioner” explains why anti-Trump Democrats believe it is OK to try to assassinate our President.
As they gag on the butter that wouldn’t melt in their mouth, they declare that they abhor violence (so they say) while simultaneously legitimizing, inciting and justifying it so long as it is practiced against Donald Trump and his Party.
They are the new generation of babies who have grown to manhood on processed food, agnosticism or atheism and abundant sugar. Because of these underpinnings we have reaped a generation of these vile and violent swine-who, also insist on suppressing the vote of the 70 million who voted for Trump.
What should scare all of us is that they are also (and I’ve read this recently of many who have tried or succeeded in assassinating Conservatives and Republicans) are former teachers or government employees and supposedly normal people with 2 parents and siblings.
The one good thing about COVID was that parents through Zoom saw how these philosopher-king “teachers” were teaching our kids!