One of the most sickening aspects of the 2016 campaign is the fact that supporters of Donald Trump have been verbally and physically assaulted, their property vandalized…
…and most mainstream media have gone into protect-Hillary mode by declining to report it.
Matthew Vadum, at lifezette.com, has compiled a partial list of incidents which, if you rely on mainstream media for your news, are probably unknown to you. I urge you to use the link and read them all. Here are just a few:
In late July an unidentified 60-year-old man was shot in the leg at Winston’s Bar on Cleveland’s East Side. His assailant, Darnell Hall, 45, shot him after their discussion of presidential politics grew heated. The attacker “was enraged that anyone in the overwhelmingly African-American bar would support the GOP nominee,” the Plain Dealer reports.
Two UCLA students told Sean Hannity on Oct. 25 they’ve seen a lot of anti-Trump violence on campus. Haley Nieves said protesters crashed one of their pro-Trump rallies. “They were stomping on the American flag during the event and even attempting to burn it afterward.” Dominique Blair said, “You face crazy leftist mobs that are not tolerant of your views whatsoever, and it turns into a lot of bad debates. Sometimes violent, sometimes hitting and fights. I’ve been all around it.” Blair added, “I am treated very poorly on my campus and other campuses. It’s very hard to be a conservative activist in Los Angeles.”
On Oct. 26 a man dressed as a construction worker took a sledgehammer and a pick-ax to Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Deadline Hollywood reports. The vandalism obliterated Trump’s name on the sidewalk. The man identified himself to a reporter as Jamie Otis. Trump’s star was dedicated in 2007 to recognize his work on the NBC TV show “The Apprentice.”
Afterwards, a homeless black woman guarded what was left of the star. The woman held a sign that reads, “20 Million Illegals and Americans Sleep on the Streets in Tents. Vote Trump.” Clinton supporters raided the woman’s shopping cart and hurled abuse at her.
“While signs were often stolen or spray-painted in past elections, local law enforcement in several swing states told NBC News the vitriol has never been this tangible,” NBC reported Nov. 4. “In Nevada, Reno police Officer Tim Broadway said campaign-based vandalism has been more prevalent this season than during any election in his 12-year career.”
David Jones, chairman of the Making Maine Great Again political action committee, told NBC he bought 5,000 signs and distributed them across Maine’s first congressional district. Thieves stole about 1,000 of the signs, he estimates.
“We were finding that we would put them up one day and they’d be gone the next, if they lasted a day,” Jones said. “They would be destroyed, stolen, painted, cut. It’s unbelievable how people reacted to it.”
Many violent attacks at pro-Trump events appear to have been orchestrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and senior operatives in the Democratic National Committee. Undercover videos shot by ACORN slayer James O’Keefe’s group Project Veritas Action caught senior Democrat consultants Robert Creamer and Scott Foval acknowledging using dirty, likely illegal tricks against the Trump campaign. Both have since resigned from the DNC, a move some consider to be an admission of guilt.
What you just read is just a small part of what Mr. Vadum is reporting. And what Mr. Vadum is reporting is just a small sampling of what has actually happened.
So where are the media on this? Why is it not a major part of the election story?
This is the year mainstream media may have “jumped the shark”; the year they may have finally, irrevocably, lost their claim to objective journalism (which, if you believe the polls, a great many people believed they had done even before the 2016 presidential campaign).
How proud they must be.
