{"id":1209,"date":"2024-07-14T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2024-07-14T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T15:22:37","slug":"trump-stages-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Trump Stages Shooting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ongoing tragedy of American politics has reached a new low as it has been revealed that former president Donald Trump initiated and orchestrated his own fake assassination during his political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania yesterday. Without question, this heinous act confirms his pathological character and trumps even the worst of his previous machinations.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews on the scene and reliable news sources all point toward a MAGA conspiracy to capitalize on President Biden\u2019s recent meltdown and clinch the upcoming election in November. Republican insiders acknowledged that preparation for the Butler rally was at best peculiar and cloaked in secrecy even from those with a need to know.<\/p>\n<p>As if further proof were needed, officials at the Hermitage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, accidentally were recorded chortling over the success of the scheme at a bar in Pittsburgh, 40 miles south of Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday will go down in infamy as the day when American democracy died, a day reminiscent of the burning of the Reichstag by the NAZIs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IF THIS WAS TRUE? Of course, it isn\u2019t, but this is an example of what too often passes for truth on social media and Fox news. This is the currency that the MAGA crowd trades in to influence uninformed and aggrieved voters.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that yesterday\u2019s shooting was both tragic and, unfortunately, an undeniable sign that our politics has moved on to stage 4 condition.<\/p>\n<p>We all need not only to condemn the shooting, but to pledge ourselves to drop our hate for one another and play fair in our politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ongoing tragedy of American politics has reached a new low as it has been revealed that former president Donald Trump initiated and orchestrated his own fake assassination during his political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania yesterday. Without question, this heinous act confirms his pathological character and trumps even the worst of his previous machinations. 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