Source: Washington Post
by Matt Bai
“I don’t agree with Donald Trump when he posits that Democrats are provoking people into trying to kill him. Trump’s own rhetoric — inflammatory, belittling, darkly warning of violence if he doesn’t get his way — probably has more to do with making him the target of delusional attention-seekers than anything his opponents have said. But do I think Trump should have to produce some dossier of evidence in order for his theory to be taken seriously? No, I don’t. And by now, it seems tragically obvious to me that, by constantly holding Trump to a different standard of proof than we do anyone else, we in the news media are actually making him less accountable for his mendacity, rather than more so.” (09/18/24)