April 4, 1968, #CivilRights leader Reverend #MartinLutherKing Jr., was shot & killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Considered one of the greatest Americans to ever live, he was assassinated 56 years ago today.
#Trump’s Baseless Claims [#lies] About the Assassination Attempt Are #Dangerous
His growing effort to blame #Biden & #Harris for the shooting isn’t supported by ANY #evidence. But experts say it could stir #violence.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Incitement #extremism #radicalization #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism
#weird #insane #Nonsense #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-assassination-attempt-blame-biden-harris/
#Iran turns to #HellsAngels & other #criminal #gangs to target critics
Iran has cultivated ties w/criminal networks in the #West to carry out a recent wave of #violent plots in the #UnitedStates & #Europe.
In the months before his attackers tracked him down, the exiled Iranian #journalist had been moved in & out of safe houses by #London’s Metro Police, given a secret way to signal rescue units & installed monitoring devices in his home.
#geopolitics #PoliticalViolence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/12/iran-criminal-gangs-target-dissidents/
#Trump, #Outrage & the Modern Era of #PoliticalViolence
The latest apparent assassination attempt against Trump indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by #anger stirred by him & against him.
Within days of Trump #vilifying #immigrants on national TV w/ #lies about #Haitian #immigrants eating pets in #Ohio, people began threatening to blow up #schools, #CityHall & other public bldgs, forcing #evacuations & prompting a wave of #fear.
-PeterBaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&pvid=CF8B20A1-9295-4D22-895D-B8B8DF64FCD6
THE #INSURRECTIONISTS NEXT DOOR
#AshliBabbitt’s mother & the wife of a notorious #Jan6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the #right. They are also my neighbors.
By Hanna Rosin
#radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #Insurrection #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/jan-6-capitol-attack-ashli-babbitt-dc-residents/679563/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcAtglrydgqNGsTv5vo8OhU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
