Leftists on social media are furious that the would-be assassin of former President Donald Trump didn’t kill him, and wished he were a marksman.
The deranged rhetoric surfaced not only from garden-variety kooks with tattoos, weird hair, and nose piercings, but also from Democratic aides to national and local politicians and — not surprisingly — university professors. At least one Democratic congressional aide has been fired.
The violent, hateful rhetoric clearly violates the guidelines of every social media platform. Some users have deleted their accounts.
Top Democrats
One of the most prominent Democrats to wish Thomas Matthew Crooks had succeeded in assassinating Trump was Jacqueline Marsaw, an aide to 1970s insurrectionist and Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson.
“I don’t condone violence, but please get some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time oops that wasn’t me talking,” she wrote.
Thompson, who led an effort to pull Trump’s Secret Service protection, fired her.
“A for effort,” crackpot Democrat Jess Branas wrote. She was a district director for Pennsylvania state Representative Heather Boyd. Boyd fired the kook, but Branas remains a councilwoman in Upper Darby.
Colorado state Representative Steven Woodrow deleted his account after writing this: “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
Still employed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, apparently, is budget analyst Tyler Barbieri. “Too bad he missed,” he wrote.
“Missed him by that much,” wrote Kenneth Gucker with a meme from Get Smart, the 1960s spy spoof. Gucker is a Democratic candidate for the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Other Haters
Leftist scribe Ashley Nerbovig deleted her account after writing “make america aim again.”
Biology Professor Shoshanah Jacobs “teaches” at the University of Guelph in Canada.
“When 4 inches really matters,” she wrote over a photo of the assassination attempt. She also ridiculed Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who died protecting his wife and daughter.
Another deranged pedagogue, John James of the Catholic Bellarmine University, wrote this: “IF YOU’RE GONNA SHOOT, MAN, DON’T MISS.”
“Too bad it didn’t hit him square” wrote Tony Bendele, a firefighter in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
Bendele did the right thing and resigned.
Everyday Social Media Haters
Other leftists on social media were also furious:
Just got out of the movies and for a split second I thought Donald Trump had been assassinated, and I thought to myself this is the best f****** day of my life. And then he wasn’t, so it’s the worst day of my life.
I think we forgot to mention when we were asking for, you know, someone to bring back assassinating presidents like they used to — we forgot to mention that they have to have good aim.
You literally had one job. One f***ing job. A job that lots other people wish they could have. And you had it and you missed. How the f**k did you miss? Not only did you miss, you didn’t even graze him. You didn’t even pinch the b**ch . … I hope your parents are truly disappointed in you.
Libs of Tiktok also offered a mashup of deranged leftists.
“RIP Thomas Crooks,” Cyberclops wrote. “Rot in hell Donald Trump.”
Professional “anti-racist” and Trump hater Tim Wise thinks the assassination was staged.
“That fist pump sh*t after Trump was ‘shot’ is too perfect” Wise wrote. No way someone thinks to do that after an assassination attempt. It’s what a MAGA script writer would write though.”
Wise’s words of wisdom appeared verbatim elsewhere.
Writer Glenn Greenwald offered the most interesting take, with a good question about other leftists who appear to be concerned about Trump.
“I still don’t understand the response of Dem officials and liberal pundits,” he wrote:
If Trump is Hitler, who will build concentration camps for his critics and never permit another US election — all of which they claim — why would they lament this attack and pray for his recovery?
