The MOST absurd headlines about assassination attempt on Trump don’t come from the Babylon Bee!

A corporate media “masterpiece” was served up by the Washington Post’s Philip Bump as outlets appeared to compete over who could spin the left as the victims of the latest assassination attempt.

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For anybody still on the fence about the extent to which the left’s narrative was bolstered by allies throughout corporate media, one would need only look at the headlines that followed Sunday’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life. While some endeavored to equate the severity of the threat to supposed bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio, others like columnist Philip Bump aimed to keep the GOP leader as a perpetual villain.

While Steve Guest deemed the headline, “Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged,” a masterpiece, the account Enguerrand VII de Coucy asserted, “Philip Bump has out Philip Bump’d himself.”

Monday on “The Five,” Fox News host Dana Perino raised this headline and others as she brought up how spot on the satirical work of The Babylon Bee was, “So The Babylon Bee having the best headline, the ‘Democrats Accuse Trump Of Inciting Further Violence By Not Dying.'”

“Ok, but that’s The Babylon Bee. It’s not that different — the Washington Post said, ‘Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged.’ Politico, ‘Republicans outraged over possible assassination attempt…’ Well, yeah. I mean shouldn’t — are you not?” she asked. “Just because you’re not a Republican, are you not outraged by this?”

“Like, if there was ever a time to be outraged, it would be now,” asserted Perino. “And I think that the media continues to get us into this situation where — we’re living in a world that is highly charged, the nation needs a circuit breaker, we need both candidates to be protected, we need this president in particular — Donald Trump has had two assassination attempts on his life. Do you think there are not more copycats out there?”

While she would go on to bring up how USA Today put the story in the top left corner of their front page “as though it’s an afterthought,” Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie (R) drew attention to an op-ed from the Cincinnati Enquirer that read, “There is no place in politics for violence. That said, the former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself.”

“Disgusting. Our regional newspaper, the Cincinnati @Enquirer, just published an opinion piece placing blame on Trump for the assassination attempts on him by Biden-Harris supporters,” stated the congressman.

Meanwhile, after the president had released a statement asserting that rhetoric from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was responsible for “causing me to be shot at,” his campaign released a list of examples of remarks from Biden and other Democrat politicians and cheerleaders in support of that claim where he is referred to as “a threat to the very soul of this country” and more.

The shameless spin earned considerable roasting for Bump and corporate media as users on X sounded off on the evident Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Kevin Haggerty

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