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Hannity Falsely Calls Trump’s Would-Be Assassins ‘Democrats’

www.mediaite.com Hannity Labels Trump’s Would-Be Assassins ‘Psychotic Democrats’ — Their Actual Party ID is Murkier

Fox News host Sean Hannity blamed liberal politicians for the actions of two would-be assassins of former President Donald Trump and falsely claimed they were Democrats.

This will be their narrative now.

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Don't be like Hannity. If you find yourself lying to support your view, change your view.

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- But then how will I support my view that I'm the world's greatest lover?
  
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  I would maybe have believe "in Japan" squid Man, don't be greedy.
  
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  Sorry, we all have to make sacrifices.
  
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- Don't be like Hannity should be part of our education.
  
  Sean Hannity is one of the worst propagandists out there and absolute going for the award for scum of the earth 2024. I fucking hate that guy with every fiber of my being.
  
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Not a democrat, not really a republican either. Mostly just crazy.

Supports Trump 2016

Supports anyone but Trump 2020 - Briefly likes Bernie but then mainly has a parasocial relationship with Tulsi Gabbard (offers to write speeches, sends speeches to their email). Eventually gets on board with Biden Harris.

Somehow likes Kim Jong Un, has another parasocial relationship inviting to Hawaii and asking to be an ambassador.

Latches onto George Floyd protests supporting police reform.

Latches onto Hong Kong supporting independence. Again reaching out to be a kind of diplomat in a parasocial relationship with Carrie Lam and including his phone number and email. He does that a lot.

Latches onto supporting Ukraine. Has a parasocial relationship with Zelenskyy. Goes there and volunteers to help recruit eventually but people thought he was nuts over there. Kept offering to provide thousands of Afghan soldiers?

Asks Elon Musk about selling him a rocket to attack Putin...

Latches onto Taiwan supporting independence. Again offering thousands of Afghan soldiers.

Writes a book telling Iran they should assassinate Trump.

Believes China has a pneumonia bioweapon it's using to silence democracy

This election his dream ticket was Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley (and yet Ramaswamy is not pro Ukraine while Haley is so I'm not sure why he'd want Haley as the VP)

https://i.imgur.com/MU5PECk.png - here's a png of some of the tweets he made
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- Like, isn't he alive? Can't someone ask him what his motives were?
  
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  Can't someone ask him what his motives were?
  
  You assume the FBI, secret service, and every other 3 letter agency who can get access to his cell aren't doing exactly that?
  
  Given his biography, I would expect a string of conspiracy laden answers and generally incoherent explanations, though.
  
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  Do we even know he wanted to hurt Trump in the first place? He made no attempt at attacking him, he was just hiding with a weapon. Which might have been in order to protect Trump from assassins as far as we know. Did anyone ask?
  
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His dream ticket was Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. He was not a Democrat.

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- That too, but more importantly, he wasn't a registered Democrat. Which is what makes you a Democrat.
  
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  That's really a terrible way to make that assessment. I'm registered as a Republican in my state so I can vote in their primary, but that doesn't reflect who I actually support.
  
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  That would be inconvenient to Trump's claims except that the truth doesn't matter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
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  Mobius partisanship
  
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When you train your base to be militant whenever they don't get their way, you can be assured that you will always be on the chopping block. Look up the French revolution. Or even the fascist uprisings in Germany and Italy. I fighting will happen because you created an environment in which decent is punishable with death.

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- "descent"; being decent is luckily not punishable with death 😂
  
  edit: I'm an idiot. It's "dissent". Going down a cave is not punishable by death either. English is hard.
  
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  dissent
  
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  Does Lemmy have a Confidently Wrong community yet?
  
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  I mean, casual observation seems to show that to about 1/2 the electorate, being descent is, or at the very least should be punishable by death.
  
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  dissent
  
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Looks like that that dumbass Hannity forgot his tie and acted like an idiot again.

What an idiotic dumbass!

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- idiotic dumbass
  
  That's a funny way to spell "intentional liar."
  
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These fucks are bitching about this while their candidates openly encourage domestic terrorism against Haitians.

Fuck 'em.

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they also called the jan 6th people "antifa".

The funniest possible outcome is if Biden pardoned the dude.

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- I'm calling "no balls" on Biden pardoning this guy
  
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  idk, I'm hoping Dark Brandon makes one final appearance. It should be obvious this guy need mental help, not prison. And that assassination attempts are the logical result of proclaiming you want to be a dictator.
  
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I just saw someone on Gab insist that Thomas Crooks was a registered Democrat...

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- damn gab still exists??
  
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  Unfortunately. I only went there to insult the users. I am not a very good troll.
  
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The undecided voters this year have really been deciding with a vengeance

This latest guy having a ton of Ukraine posts is probably also part of them being like "he's a democrat"- there's even a picture of him with blue hair

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They have to shelter their base from the truth. ☺️

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Person: Votes for Trump. Republicans: A Democrat!

Anyways even though Hannity is LYING about Assassination attempts can DEMOCRATS please tone down Their Rhetoric?

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- Imo, saying you want to be "dictator day 1" this is the obvious outcome. This is 100% Trump's own statements that caused this.
  
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Why does everyone in that picture look like they’re standing in front of fun house mirrors?

(I know what the obvious answer is, it just caught me off guard.)

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Isn't this new guy that was arrested a Democrat?

Records show Routh, 58, lived in North Carolina for most of his life before moving to Hawaii in 2018. In 2020, he made a social media post backing Trump’s reelection, but in more recent years his posts have expressed support for Biden and Harris.

The first one wasn't iirc so Hannity is full of it, but this attack has legs once they get the wording 'right'. Assholes (Hannity + Assassin).

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- Expressing support for Biden and Harris equals Democrat. You've heard it here first, folks!
  
  Pictured- Democrat:
  
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  He donated money to the Democratic party 19x since 2019
  
  Edit: citation
  
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- If the world were black and white then he would be a democrat. In actuality tho the new guy is a deranged and delluded self glorifying wreck of a weirdo. Read his/the incidendts wikipedia article.
  
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  Okay, I see here he registered independent and expressed support for candidates of both parties this cycle. Still, his relevant support for Biden/Harris and that he recently donated money to the democratic party are what are going to give this accusation legs.
  
  edit: recently
  
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- His dream ticket was Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. He was not a Democrat.
  
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  FFS they're doubling down on Hannity being right. Apparently you don't have to be a Democrat to be a Democrat.
  
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- He is registered Unaffiliated in NC but did vote in the Democratic primary in March but for all we know it was a protest vote against Biden.
  
  We do know he was coo-coo bananas and should not have had access to firearms.
  
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- He voted for Trump. Not a ton of Democrats do that. Call me crazy but while I'd assume someone who ends up attempting assassination doesn't like the person they attempt assassinating, that doesn't mean they are automatically a member of the opposing political party. 1/3rd of Americans are independents.
  
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  It's okay, they are "no longer as certain" as they were that this Trump-voting registered independent is a Democrat like the always reliable Sean Hannity says he is.
  
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  He also loudly declared he regretted doing so. Both these looney tunes wanna-be assassins were all over the place with their political leanings. Blindly assuming he isn't a democrat when things like 19 donations to the Democratic party strongly suggest otherwise is myopic.
  
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