As I pointed out yesterday, the media has not been shy about connecting bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio to Donald Trump and JD Vance. Every major outlet ran a version of this story connecting the threats to Trump’s rhetoric even though no one really knew who was making the threats.
Then Monday we learned that most of those threats were being emailed from overseas, apparently from one country in particular though no one would say which one. Gov. DeWine did say this appeared to be part of a foreign attempt to “mess with the United States.” In other words, there may be an ulterior motive for these threats that goes beyond just crazy people responding to Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
But this type of reasoning, which goes from rhetoric to threats without making any specific connection in between, creates a challenge for the media. They’ve decided it’s perfectly fine to say that Trump’s…
