Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. TrumpCompact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering “hatred” of migrants and ethnic diversity. “The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state,” Minister Faeser said.
“Our signal is very clear: We will not allow ethnic definitions of who belongs to Germany and who does not,” she added.
Several people associated with the magazine, including publisher Jürgen Elsässer, had their homes raided following the ban on July 16. Police also seized the magazine’s assets.
Compact is well-known for its links to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which lawmakers in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, are also trying to get banned. The magazine is also noted for being skeptical of Western involvement in the Ukraine war, blaming NATO expansion for the conflict.
Brandenburg state interior minister Michael Stübgen, a member of the so-called “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel, has said all of Compact‘s social media channels will be scrubbed from the Internet, with their content deleted and revenue confiscated.
Earlier this year, Minister Faeser, who previously wrote for far-left Antifa publications, announced the government would be banning anyone declared a far-right extremist from owning firearms. The government will also trace people who donate to allegedly far-right individuals and groups.
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Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. TrumpCompact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering "hatred" of migrants and ethnic diversity. "The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state," Minister Faeser said.
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Nigel Farage has criticized the “mainstream media narrative” against former President Donald J. Trump following the assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania. “The narrative that is put out there about Trump, by these liberals that oppose him, is so nasty, it’s so unpleasant, that I think it almost encourages this type of behavior,” he said. “There are some things that are said on social media that aren’t acceptable. But there is also a mainstream media narrative and I’m afraid it’s very, very one-sided.”
Farage said the BBC, Britain’s state broadcaster, “is a part of this,” citing the way it has encouraged hatred against him, as well. “One of the many times that I had a drink thrown at me, a so-called comedian on a BBC show said, ‘Well, why not battery acid?'”
Farage also recalled recent comments by Joe Biden that “Trump must be put in the bullseye,” suggesting such rhetoric has contributed to a dangerous political environment.
Farage also referenced BBC presenter David Aaronovitch making a supposedly satirical social media post calling for Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered.”
While media and politicians have mostly condemned the shooting, MSNBC had to pull its flagship show, Morning Joe, on Monday, reportedly over fears one of its anti-Trump hosts or guests may say something inappropriate.
Prior to the shooting, a litany of celebrities, journalists, and politicians have called for violence against Trump, some even calling for him to be killed.
I remember when Jo Brand asked “why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”.
When David Aaronovitch said “if I was Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered”.
Nigel Farage has criticized the "mainstream media narrative" against former President Donald J. Trump following the assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania. "The narrative that is put out there about Trump, by these liberals that oppose him, is so nasty, it's so unpleasant, that I think it almost encourages this type of behavior," he said. "There are some things that are said on social media that aren't acceptable. But there is also a mainstream media narrative and I'm afraid it's very, very one-sided."
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Liberal celebrities, journalists, and politicians, up to and including the sitting president, had been steadily intensifying incitement against Donald Trump prior to the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.
CELEBRITIES.
Hollywood liberals have been threatening violence or wishing violence upon Trump for years. Among others, Robert De Niro called Trump a “dog” and a “pig” in 2016, seething about wanting to “punch him in the face.”
The alleged comedienne Kathy Griffin infamously posed with a bloody model of Trump’s severed head in 2017. She claimed to be remorseful after receiving backlash—and a drop in job offers—but repeated the stunt in 2023.
Theater director Oskar Eustis put on a version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar portraying the Roman leader as Trump, complete with a bloody assassination, the same year.
While in the United Kingdom in 2017, Johnny Depp asked a festival audience, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? … [I]t’s been a while and maybe it’s time”—referencing the murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
Previously, Madonna had said she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” at the 2017 Women’s March.
Mickey Rourke, like De Niro, spoke of his desire to give Trump a “left hook from hell” on multiple occasions, most recently in 2019.
JOURNALISTS.
The corporate media has been inciting the public against Trump for many years, ramping up its efforts with particular intensity in recent weeks as he rises in the polls.
Earlier this month, The New Republic ran a cover portraying Trump as Adolf Hitler, complete with mustache, under the strapline ‘American fascism,’ insisting he is “damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”
In December, Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post ran an article titled, ‘Yes, it’s OK to compare Trump to Hitler.’
On July 2, The Huffington Post website ran an article on the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have a presumption of immunity from prosecution—if not impeachment—for official acts with the headline, ‘Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump.’
Similarly, BBC presenter David Aaronovitch responded to the ruling with a “satirical” social media post recommending that Biden should “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.”
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe issued an unhinged rant in November warning Trump was “running to end American democracy” and would exile, imprison, and even “execute” his opponents once reelected.
POLITICIANS.
Politicians have also played a prominent role in stirring up fear and hatred against Trump, largely by scaremongering about him becoming a dictator.
“It’s just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated,” Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman recently told former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, in a clip that has been widely recirculated following Saturday’s assassination attempt.
Robert Kagan, the war hawk neoconservative husband of war hawk former Biden official Victoria Nuland, wrote a 6,000-word essay declaring that a “Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” adding: “When a marauder is crashing through your house, you throw everything you can at him—pots, pans, candlesticks—in the hope of slowing him down and tripping him up.”
In April, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, actually put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection, in anticipation of a possible prison sentence for Trump in Manhattan. This was widely interpreted as a move to make it easier for someone to kill him.
In 2017, Democratic state senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri posted, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” on Facebook. Congressman Maxine Waters said she wanted to “go and take Trump out” the same year.
As long ago as 2015, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said the “GOP donor class” was “going to have to go out and put a bullet in” then-candidate Trump.
BIDEN.
Perhaps no politician has done as much to incite the public against Trump as Joe Biden. The incumbent, up to the day of the assassination attempt, was posting on social media that Trump means to become a dictator.
On July 5, referencing the aforementioned immunity ruling, he claimed the former president “really could” become a dictator if reelected.
“Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy,” he said on June 28, adding: “He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
It is a theme he has been playing on for years: “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soulofthis country,” he posted in 2022.
Biden uses similarly inflammatory rhetoric in private, telling donors in a July 8 call reported by the press: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
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Liberal celebrities, journalists, and politicians, up to and including the sitting president, had been steadily intensifying incitement against Donald Trump prior to the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.
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MSNBC’s flagship Morning Joe show is not airing on Monday. Executives at NBCUniversal News Group are fearful the hosts or their regular guests could say something “inappropriate” about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
CNN reports a source “familiar with the matter” told them the “decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.”
NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde, MSNBC president Rashida Jones, and Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski supposedly made the decision jointly.
The husband-and-wife duo have been amongst the most hyperbolic Trump critics in recent months. In November, Scarborough claimed Trump “is running to end American democracy as we know it” and suggested only the judiciary stopped him from governing in the style of Adolf Hitler in his first term.
“Just because he hasn’t done it yet doesn’t mean he won’t do it when he gets a chance to do it, and if he is voted into office… he will imprison, he will execute, whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, uh, uh, uh, uh, drive from the country,” Scarborough ranted.
Senior Republicans such as J.D. Vance have suggested rhetoric like this, from both the corporate media and the Democrats, inspired the assassination attempt against Trump.
MORNING JOE: “In a 2nd term, Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read” pic.twitter.com/3bs2YnC82K
MSNBC's flagship Morning Joe show is not airing on Monday. Executives at NBCUniversal News Group are fearful the hosts or their regular guests could say something "inappropriate" about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
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Donald Trump Jr. slammed CNN after correspondent Jamie Gangel scolded his father for his “rhetoric” after he was shot on Saturday. “I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd, because of all of the heated rhetoric,” she said. “And that is after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!'”
Bloodied after being shot through the ear, the America First leader paused the Secret Service agents attempting to hustle him from the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania while he raised a fist and delivered the rousing message to his alarmed audience.
“I think what we’re hearing from people is that’s not the message that we want to be sending right now. We want to tamp it down,” Gangel complained.
“Someone attempted to assassinate my father tonight and this is what CNN is focused on,” Don Jr. posted on social media. “These people are vile.”
Gangel did not stress the “heated rhetoric” of Joe Biden over recent weeks. Shortly before the assassination attempt, the 81-year-old claimed Trump intends to become a “dictator” if reelected.
On Monday, Biden told donors it was time to “put Trump in a bullseye.” He warned Trump “really could” become a dictator following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity on July 5. He said Trump “is a genuine threat to this nation… a threat to our freedom [and] our democracy” on June 28.
Senator J.D. Vance, a leading candidate for Trump’s 2024 running mate, says the “central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” arguing, “This rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
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Donald Trump Jr. slammed CNN after correspondent Jamie Gangel scolded his father for his "rhetoric" after he was shot on Saturday. "I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd, because of all of the heated rhetoric," she said. "And that is after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, 'Fight! Fight! Fight!'"
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Comcast NBCUniversal’s Sky News reacted to the assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, by questioning whether the America First leader has changed “the rules of engagement” in politics.
One of Britain’s leading news broadcasters, Sky published the article ‘Nothing justifies an assassination bid – but did Trump play a part in changing the rules of engagement?’ within hours of the shooting, which injured President Trump and left at least one of his supporters dead.
U.S. correspondent James Matthews said Trump had “joked about the brutal assault on the husband of former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi” and “downplay[ed] a kidnap plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer“—which turned out to have been orchestrated in large part by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) plants and informants.
Matthews claimed Joe Biden and the Democrats responded to the assassination attempt with “benevolence”—making no mention of the fact that the 81-year-old incumbent had been fearmongering about Trump’s supposed plans to become a “dictator” shortly before the attack.
Sky News also expressed shock that the shooting was able to take place, suggesting the “agents charged with Donald Trump’s protection, Secret Service or otherwise, face a grilling on a failure in the fundamentals of the job.”
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Comcast NBCUniversal's Sky News reacted to the assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, by questioning whether the America First leader has changed "the rules of engagement" in politics.
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Global media and leaders have not been to Joe Biden in their assessment of his “big boy” press conference at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., with many arguing he should exit the presidential race.
Britain’s Economist magazine, which recently called for Biden to drop out, ran with the ambivalent headline, ‘Biden survives his “big boy” press conference.’
The Telegraphargued that Biden’s gaffes throughout the summit “ruined” months of hard work by European diplomats and undermined the entire event.
Similarly, TheDaily Mailran with, ‘Biden flubs lines, meanders and makes excruciating gaffe in “big boy” press conference that leaves his reelection bid on life support.’
Italy’s Il Giornale noted how Biden had introduced Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.”
Germany’s Bild newspaper, the largest in the country, questioned Biden’s behavior with the headline, ‘Are these slips of the tongue or is it old age?’
In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald ran with the headline, ‘Shaky answers and gaffes: Biden’s latest showing won’t stem the bleeding.’ New Zealand’s NZ Herald also called the presser “gaffe-prone.”
One of the biggest gaffes of the presser saw Biden refer to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump.”
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Global media and leaders have not been to Joe Biden in their assessment of his "big boy" press conference at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., with many arguing he should exit the presidential race.
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Joe Biden’s re-election campaign demanded Civic Media’s Milwaukee-based progressive radio host Earl Ingram edit his interview with the 81-year-old Democrat before it aired. The radio network insists the edits to the interview, recorded on July 3 and aired on July 4, were non-substantive, but acknowledges they complied with the Biden campaign’s demand.
“On Monday, July 8th, it was reported to Civic Media management that immediately after the phone interview was recorded, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired,” the radio station said in a statement on Thursday. “Civic Media management immediately undertook an investigation and determined that the production team at the time viewed the edits as non-substantive and broadcast and published the interview with two short segments removed.”
In response to the revelation regarding the edited interview, Civic Media stated they would make the entire, unedited conversation with Biden available online. According to the station, Biden cut two comments from the aired interview, which occurred at 5:20 and 14:15 minutes, respectively.
The first edit removed a claim by Biden regarding diversity in his government. Biden said: “…and in addition to that, I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.”
In the second edit, Biden incoherently references former President Donald J. Trump‘s remarks regarding the Central Park Five. “I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he–but they said […] convicted of murder,” the octogenarian Democrat babbles.
The National Pulse reported on Monday that Pennsylvania talk radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders was fired by her station after it was revealed she used Biden campaign-provided questions for his post-debate interview.
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Joe Biden's re-election campaign demanded Civic Media's Milwaukee-based progressive radio host Earl Ingram edit his interview with the 81-year-old Democrat before it aired. The radio network insists the edits to the interview, recorded on July 3 and aired on July 4, were non-substantive, but acknowledges they complied with the Biden campaign's demand.
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CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced a round of layoffs on Wednesday, totaling around 100 employees. The network chief said the shakeup was part of a new plan to transition the cable news network into the digital age. In recent months, the beleaguered news network has faced the lowest rating in three decades.
“Turning a great news organization towards the future is not a one-day affair,” Thompson said in a memo to staff. “It happens in stages and over time.”
He described these changes as a critical milestone in CNN‘s transformation. As part of this restructuring, approximately three percent of CNN’s workforce will be laid off.
Thompson envisions a subscription service that will generate over $1 billion in revenue. This initiative follows the short-lived launch and cancellation of CNN+ in 2022, following the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery. His strategy also includes unifying CNN‘s disparate divisions of U.S. television, international television, and digital under one umbrella, aiming to utilize newsroom resources better.
Additionally, Thompson emphasized using artificial intelligence (AI) to further CNN’s mission, highlighting a “follow the sun” news model for round-the-clock global coverage. Consequently, CNN will expand its Hong Kong office and increase reliance on its London and Los Angeles bureaus. The CEO contends this will enhance the network’s response to unexpected news events.
The National Pulse reported last week that CNN media reporter Hadas Gold admitted the network—among others—failed to adequately cover Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline because they feared it would help former President Donald J. Trump‘s 2024 presidential re-election campaign.
Distrust in television news, especially at CNN, has likely had a far more detrimental impact on revenue than its programming or newsroom and bureau structure.
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CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced a round of layoffs on Wednesday, totaling around 100 employees. The network chief said the shakeup was part of a new plan to transition the cable news network into the digital age. In recent months, the beleaguered news network has faced the lowest rating in three decades.
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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski has attacked Rep. Nancy Pelosi for refusing to endorse Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, complaining that Democrats are fueling their own “self-destruction.” Pressed to back Biden, the former House speaker equivocated, saying it was “up to the President to decide if he is going to run.”
“We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short… and people want him to make that decision,” Pelosi said—despite Biden insisting the decision has been made and he is staying in the race, repeatedly and unambiguously.
“I think we all ought to take a close look, especially Democrat, at ourselves because there is a bit of self-destruction that is happening here. I really disagree with Nancy Pelosi, with her remarks,” Brzezinski complained. “She’s a close family friend. But Joe Biden is the president of the United States, and he says he’s not leaving. Those are his words. I suggest somebody think about, consider, believing him,” she added.
Since Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump, Brzezinski’s co-host and husband, Joe Scarborough, has been less supportive of the 81-year-old incumbent. Despite having previously said that “this version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever,” he joined the chorus of pundits suggesting he should go after the debate.
“If he were CEO, and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America keep him on as CEO?” Scarborough demanded.
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MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski has attacked Rep. Nancy Pelosi for refusing to endorse Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, complaining that Democrats are fueling their own "self-destruction." Pressed to back Biden, the former House speaker equivocated, saying it was "up to the President to decide if he is going to run."
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