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NYT ‘Both-Sides’ Second Trump Assassination Attempt in Lead Story

On Tuesday’s front page, The New York Times highlighted White House correspondent Peter Baker’s “news analysis” on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, headlined: “The Anger That Defines And Threatens Trump Outrage Dominates Political Landscape.”

Yet somehow, the second attempted assassination of Trump (nine weeks after the first!), at his golf course in West Palm Beach, didn’t even make Baker’s first paragraph. Instead, Baker front-loaded the piece with the “dogs and cats” claim to hint to his readers that Trump’s rhetoric on Haitian immigrants was responsible for the attempt, not the non-stop vilification of Trump by liberals. The Times also posted a video of Baker that opened with him saying “Donald Trump has long been seen as an instigator of political violence.

The online headline spread the blame around to include “anger…

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