Top headline: Associated Press
Bottom headline: New York Times
Adam B. Kushner reports on how dimwit Trump mistakes dissent for agitation:
But in the days since a gunman assassinated Charlie Kirk, Republicans have sought a new target — not a discrete person or an odious policy idea, but what they call “leftist ideology.” President Trump this past weekend blamed Democrats for political violence and said his administration would investigate left-leaning groups. Yesterday, his aides outlined a plan: They would label left-wing activity that led to violence as domestic terrorism.
“We have some pretty radical groups, and they got away with murder,” Trump said yesterday, without naming any groups beyond antifa. He said some people “have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.
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