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Mainstream media downplays pro-Trump terrorist bombing in Las Vegas [1]
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Date: 2025-01-04
In “Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livelsberger’s Political Minifestos?”, Talking Points Memo’s ever-astute Josh Marshall points out something that’s been bugging me for a day about the Las Vegas Cybertruck suicide bombing by Matthew Livelsberger. Marshall writes:
Most headlines I’d seen in the news report only that he warned of national decline and bore “no ill will toward Mr. Trump”, in the words of one of the investigators. That gloss on Donald Trump is, shall we say, a bit of an understatement….
Here are samples from Livelsberger’s “minifestos”:
Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete. Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse…. Rally around the Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans!
Which means this was clearly and obviously pro-Trump terrorism.
I understand why law enforcement officers downplay Livelsberger’s motivation — they’re mostly pro-Trump themselves.
But why isn’t this pro-Trump terrorism being reported as such in the mass media?
Are the New York Times, CNN, etc. all going to prostrate themselves in front of Trump and MAGA for the foreseeable future? Is the mass media going to content itself with saying drivel like NBC News’s “Soldier who died in Cybertruck left writing criticizing government, authorities say” which merely says that the truck bomber was a “patriotic soldier”?!?!
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