It must be fun to be a Democrat. You can advocate wounding or killing Donald J. Trump. And, when a sharp-eyed Secret Service agent stops a man minutes before he would have aimed an AK-47 at the GOP presidential nominee, you blame Trump for nearly getting himself killed, demand that the Right watch its words, and take zero responsibility for inciting mayhem.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who knows better, insidiously claimed that Trump’s shooter and alleged would-be assassin are members of MAGA Nation. Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, Reid argued on Sept. 17, “are white American Trump-supporting men with guns.” (RELATED: Ryan Wesley Routh, Do-Gooder)

Reid, either sloppily mendacious or totally psychotic, claims that Cooks and Routh love Trump so much that one shot him on July 13, and the other came within minutes of slaying him on Sept. 15. Does anything say “Love” more than gunfire?

Nice try, Joy.

Would-Be Trump Assassins Were Anything But Trump Supporters

Crooks was a registered Republican. However, if he ever supported Trump, such evidence remains undisclosed. Crooks donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, via Act Blue. That’s hardly a high-dollar gift. Nonetheless, it made Crooks a Democrat donor.

Meanwhile, Oran Routh, the son of the accused attempted assassin, said that his father hates Trump, as “every reasonable person does.” Routh, the younger, also told the Daily Mail: “I don’t like Trump either.”

Presumably, Oran Routh knows his father better than Joy Reid does.

Rather than a MAGA hat, Routh’s truck is decorated with a Biden-Harris bumper sticker. Photographs from the driveway in Routh’s Kaaawa, Hawaii, home confirm this. Routh is a 19-time donor to Democrat candidates. Via ActBlue, between September 2019 and March 2020, he contributed between $1 and $25 to contenders ranging from presidential rivals Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang to senatorial wannabe Robert Francis O’Rourke of Texas and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Routh’s donations were small and numerous, and they all benefited Democrats. (READ MORE: RFK Jr.’s Fight for Principle)

Routh voted for Trump in 2016 but eventually alighted the Trump Train. As Routh shabbily stated on June 11, 2020, via Twitter, now X: “@realDonaldTrump While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment [sic] and it seems you are getting worse and devolving; are you retarded; I will be glad when you [sic] gone.”

Routh’s rhetoric grew more aggressive in his self-published e-book, Ukraine’s Unwinnable War. Routh wrote last year that Iran’s mullahs should feel “free to assassinate” Trump.

The Left Blames Trump for the Atmosphere of Political Violence

Never mind, the Left insists. It’s all Trump’s fault.

“Donald Trump, he created this specter of political violence that we all now live under, and he lives under it, too,” Sarah Longwell, host of The Focus Group podcast, said on CNN. “And so, it is his rhetoric that has been creating this environment for the last eight years.”

Trump’s critics repeat the same exhausted talking points about Trump’s alleged violent rhetoric:

“Charlottesville!”

No. After the August 2017 race riot in that Virginia city, Trump did not refer to neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “very fine people.” He said that “they should be condemned totally.” No less than the Left-leaning Snopes fact-checked this oft-echoed lie and ruled it “False” last June 20. Nonetheless, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris keep repeating this lie.

“Election denial!”

Trump challenged the results of the 2020 election, alleging vote fraud, which he had every right to do. Hillary Clinton questioned the outcome of the 2016 election, screaming: “Russian collusion!” Stacy Abrams likewise denied the conclusion of Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election, which she still has not conceded. Losing candidates contest their losses all the time and have every legal right to do so. This includes Trump.

“January 6!”

Trump addressed his supporters at midday on the National Mall on Jan. 6, 2021. He repeated his suspicions of election fraud, which tens of millions of his voters still share. Trump never called for violence. In fact, he urged his supporters to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill “peacefully and patriotically.”

If Trump wanted his backers to storm the Capitol, why would he authorize 10,000 National Guard troops to keep Washington, D.C. tranquil that day? If Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had not rejected National Guard personnel, the ensuing violence never would have started.

“Bloodbath!”

In her Sept. 10 debate with Trump, Kamala parroted the Left’s lie that Trump predicted “a bloodbath” if he loses the Nov. 5 election. On March 16, Trump did forecast that a Democrat victory in November would prompt “a bloodbath”… in the auto industry, not in the streets.

“Bomb threats!”

The Left now claims that Trump’s words about pet-eating Haitian illegal aliens overwhelming Springfield, Ohio, inspired bomb threats, presumably from his frenzied supporters. Alas, for Democrats, Republican Governor Mike DeWine revealed that these threats were all hoaxes phoned in from an unidentified U.S. adversary abroad. Why? To foment confusion and discord among Americans.

Mission accomplished.

“We have people, unfortunately overseas, who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country,” DeWine said on Sept. 16. “We think that this is one more opportunity to mess with the United States, and they’re continuing to do that. So we cannot let the bad guys win.”

“Existential threat!”

By the Trump campaign’s count, at least a half-dozen House Democrats have called the Republican standard-bearer “an existential threat to democracy,” as if they were reading from a Xeroxed script. Neither Trump nor any other American should be lectured about “democracy” by the political party that just disenfranchised 14.3 million of their own voters who chose Biden as their nominee in 55 of 56 primary competitions. A cabal of putschists ousted Biden in a coup d’état and installed Kamala as their nominee. You — yeah, you — earned as many votes for that honor as she did: Zero.

Democrats Have Called for Trump’s Assassination Numerous Times

While Donald J. Trump’s prose never will be mistaken for the poetry of Robert Frost, the former president does not discuss injuring and killing his opponents. Over and over and over and over again, Democrats and other Trump haters fantasize aloud about wounding and murdering him. And then — as the weapons-grade psychological projectionists that they are — they accuse Trump of doing precisely that which they perpetrate against him. (READ MORE: The Weekend Spectator Ep. 12: RFK Jr. and Trump Unite Against The Radical Left)

• “I’d like to punch him in the face,” actor Robert DeNiro said about Trump in October 2016.

• “If I were in high school,” Biden said in March 2018, “I’d take him [Trump] behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”

• In October 2018, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace recalled her conversation after one of the 2016 debates between Trump and his Republican competitors. “I told Jeb Bush after that debate that I thought he should have punched [Trump] in the face. You would have been a hero.” Donald J. Trump, Jr. responded via Twitter: “Is anyone shocked that the left wants people to resort to violence?”

• Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Trump-hating “Republican” Lincoln Project, spoke with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in 2015. Even before Trump had been elected, Wilson said of the GOP donor class: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact.”

• One day after Trump’s January 2017 inauguration, singer/actress Madonna told the Women’s March rally in Washington: “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”

Snoop Dogg shoots a clown dressed as Donald Trump in music video Lavender (Jesse/YouTube)

• In a March 2017 music video, rapper Snoop Dogg aims a gun, point-blank, into the temple of a clown dressed like Trump (red tie, white shirt, dark-blue suit). The weapon fires, and out pops a flag that says: “BANG.”

• Comedienne and former CNN New Year’s Eve co-host Kathy Griffin posed before cameras in May 2017 while holding a mock-up of Trump’s severed head, complete with fake blood dripping down the sides of its face.

Kathy Griffin “beheads” Trump in gory photo https://t.co/3fOLnVyf2x pic.twitter.com/wEPvjWFdVM

— The Hill (@thehill) May 31, 2017

• “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Johnny Depp asked a cheering crowd at England’s Glastonbury Festival in June 2017. He added “[I]t’s been a while. And maybe it’s time.”

• New York’s Public Theater staged a June 2017 Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman emperor wore Trump-like attire, sported dramatic blond hair, and displayed similar gestures and swagger. Caesar’s stabbing death in the Roman Senate looked eerily like Trump’s ritual assassination by knives.

• State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D–Mo.) wrote on Facebook in August 2017: “I hope Trump is assassinated!”

• “I will go and take Trump out tonight,” Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D–Calif.) announced in October 2017.

• Ellen DeGeneres asked Kamala in April 2018, “If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?” Kamala replied: “Does one of us have to come out alive?” and then exploded into her signature cackle attack.

• When TMZ interviewed actress Carole Cook in September 2018, she wondered: “Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?” (The Secret Service then spoke with her. Cook told them, “I can’t go to prison. The stripes are horizontal, and they don’t look good on me.”)

• After the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling on presidential immunity, BBC host David Aaronovitch wrote, “If I was [sic] Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.”

• “We’re done talking about the debate,” Biden told donors by phone on July 8. “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”

• Former Harris-Biden aide Kate Bedingfield told CNN on July 16 that Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”

• Rachel Vindman, the wife of Trump impeachment no. 1 figure Alexander Vindman, laughed off assassination attempt no. 2. Within two hours of Trump’s encore brush with death, she declared: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”

• Congressman Dan Goldman (D–N.Y.) said this about Trump on Sept. 18 to MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Biden’s former press secretary: “It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and … he has to be eliminated.”

This lust for Trump’s blood is not just common among prominent Democrats, it’s prominent among common Democrats. After the second attempt on Trump’s life, Napolitan News Service surveyed 1,000 registered voters from Sept. 16 to 17. Pollster Scott Rasmussen asked, “While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?”

28% of Democrats say that America would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated.

Democrats are the most vile, evil, subhumans alive. pic.twitter.com/Sev0cCE1dN

— Sara Rose ???????????? (@saras76) September 19, 2024

Overall, 17 percent of respondents agreed that America would be a better place had Routh assassinated Trump. While 92 percent of Republicans disagreed, 28 percent of Democrats thought rubbing out Trump would have been a plus, and 25 percent of Democrats were not sure. So, 53 percent of Democrats could not denounce whacking Trump. This is from the so-called “Party of Democracy.”

RMG Research President Scott Rasmussen observed: “It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered.”

After not one, but two assassination attempts against Trump, will Democrats cool their homicidal Trump-hating statements?

Not bloody likely.

Alas, Donald J. Trump was probably right when he said: “Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!”

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.