CNN‘s Dana Bash (4/26/26) confronts Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) over Democrats saying Trump is “terrible for this country.”
After the thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner, some elite media have held straight faces as they decry violent rhetoric…from the left.
CNN’s Dana Bash (4/26/26) pressed congressmember Jamie Raskin:
You have, and as many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens?
Asked what rhetoric she had in mind, Bash came back with: “Well, just talking about some of the fact that he is terrible for this country and so on and so forth.”
‘When the guns are trained on her face’
The Atlantic (10/31/24) catalogued “40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.”
Bash is talking about the same Donald Trump that approvingly retweeted a guy saying “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” that celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller—“Good, I’m glad he’s dead”—and the murder of Rob Reiner, who Trump posted died
due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
And who, when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was brutally attacked with a hammer, joked that Pelosi was “against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house—which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”
And this is of course setting to one side the mass murder of Palestinians, the lethal military strikes against Venezuelans in boats, the illegal kidnapping of immigrants off the streets, the deep and abiding harms to the poor and the marginalized—none of which count as being mean, evidently. Saying Haitians are killing and eating peoples’ pets? That wasn’t supposed to encourage any action…!
Saying of Liz Cheney: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it…when the guns are trained on her face”—what’s that?
‘How does an investor process that?’
CNBC‘s Sara Eisen (4/7/26) wonders whether Trump’s genocidal threat is “a bigger upside risk or downside risk.”
Or how about Trump declaring that if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by—whatever deadline he had at the moment—“a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”?
Now, many would say that is more violent than saying Trump is “terrible for the country and so on and so forth.” Indeed, many would say it’s evidence of why he’s terrible for the country, and so on and so forth.
But Sara Eisen, co-host of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street (4/7/26), instead said:
This deadline that President Trump has set, 8:00 pm, has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?
Maybe Dana Bash and her ilk see nothing wrong with Eisen’s comments because, after all, that rhetoric isn’t “heated.” It’s just a calm, cold, consideration of how to consider mass murder from the profit angle. Like normal, decent people would do.
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