The man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on Sunday “was a consumer” of liberal media that promote Democrats’ inflammatory rhetoric – and he’s going to find out which media outlets influenced him – Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday.
“I saw a lot of Democrats attacking Trump today, really didn’t even give this much of a thought. They're just all out with the rhetoric all over again,” DeSantis told Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Monday while explaining how Florida is launching its own investigation into the attempted assassination.
Before his failed assassination attempt, suspect Ryan Wesley Routh appears to have been a fan of legacy media outlets that promote incendiary anti-Trump narratives, DeSantis said:
“And look, we’ll see what this guy consumed.
“It seems like he was a consumer of a lot of these corporate media narratives that the Democrats propagate. We’ll see.”
“I think that’s what the investigation can show,” the Florida governor said.
Liberal media are bombarding their audiences with Democrats’ claims that Trump is a threat to democracy – sending the message that violence against the Republican presidential candidate is justified, DeSantis warned:
“There’s a lot of people in our society who may have a screw loose and if you are constantly telling them that American democracy is going to end if this guy gets elected president, well, somebody's going to feel that they are justified for doing this.”
“And so, I do think that the apocalyptic rhetoric has increased the threats to Donald Trump, no question about it,” DeSantis said.
The liberal media are, indeed, constantly claiming that Trump is a threat to democracy, and his failed assassin has even repeated their claim, an article by NewsBusters’ Bill D'Agostino explains:
“As the nation reels from a second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, many conservatives are pointing an accusatory finger at the media for their role in radicalizing much of the political left.
“The alleged attempted assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, posted on X in 2024 of this year that ‘democracy’ was ‘on the ballot’ — a line that Democrats and their corporate media allies have been chanting for almost a year.”
A video montage compiled by D’Agostino provides examples of how viewers are being constantly bludgeoned with incendiary anti-Trump claims by legacy media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, NBC News.
On MSNBC, for example, Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) even called for Donald Trump to be "eliminated" during an interview last fall, the NewsBusters video shows.
“He is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated,” Rep. Goldman told MSNBC.