Things got heated at the Staten Island GOP conference after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and some members have been tearing reporters a new one as they attempt to place the blame for it on…Donald Trump.
One fiery moment includes New York State Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo, who got behind the podium to address accusations that Trump’s own rhetoric is responsible for the attempt on his life and that the shooter was a registered Republican, something that the press has been attempting to use to absolve themselves of any blame.
Taking the stage, Pirozzolo chided the reporters for suggesting that this is just more Republican violence.
“Everybody knows that you have MSNBC, the New York Times, Rachel Maddow, The View, you have Maxine Waters; Oh, let’s get in their faces.'” said Pirozzolo. “You have this going on every day, and you dare to say to us, ‘shouldn’t we wait?'”
Pirozzolo slammed the media for suggesting that Republicans should wait to speak before all the information came out about how media rhetoric helped caused this, saying that they don’t need permission from anyone to make a statement and tell everyone they need to calm their words down. He then put the media on the spot.
“Are you saying the fact that he was a registered to the Republican Party absolves him of everything?” asked Pirozzollo. “Absolves all of the media of all of the coverage they’ve done for the last 10 years? Absolutely not!”
“That is a pathetic question, and I think you guys should be ashamed” he continued, pointing at the reporter. “I don’t know you personally, but it’s pathetic that you would even suggest that he’s a Republican, therefore everything is okay, when you have social media, you have control of the media, you talk about the laptop, you talk about Russian collusion — all of that, we have to forget because maybe this guy was registered, or is registered to the Republican Party.”
There’s nary a dull moment in the conference, and you can watch the full thing here.
Pirozzolo is correct. Once it was released that the shooter was a registered Republican, the media and many a leftist have been using it as an excuse to take all the heat off themselves. However, it’s been discovered that while the shooter was indeed registered to the Republican Party, his donation history involves the leftist activist organization “ActBlue,” The money was earmarked for the “Progressive Turnout Project,” a radical left organization. He also made a donation to President Joe Biden on his inauguration day.
This has led many to speculate that he was registered to the Republican Party in order to try to see to it that Trump couldn’t be voted for on the state level in Pennsylvania, where he was registered, which is a common practice for political activists.
Regardless of whether he was a lifelong Republican, there isn’t much room for the media to wiggle out of its responsibility for the attempt on the shooter’s life. The media’s rhetoric has been absolutely vile when it comes to Trump, including artistic depictions of his severed head, shooting him, and murdering him.
Pirozzolo’s line of attack against the media should be followed and then some.
