JD Vance demands an apology for the Bomb Threats that he and Trump caused in Springfield OH
Reposted from Dailykos
I am so sick of these fucking people. I mean seriously, they are fracking insufferable. The unmitigated gall. Just look at this shit.
Vance (R-OH) took to X Tuesday afternoon to complain the mainstream media had unfairly linked 33 bomb threats — which spurred two elementary school evacuations and also mentioned local university students by name — to his made-up story about Haitian immigrants.
"I'm still waiting on a correction and apology from the left wing journalists," Vance wrote. "They lied about these bomb threats to silence us."
Vance did not explain how he believes the media lied, but echoed a claim he made to Dana Bash on CNN Sunday, when he argued he was justified in creating stories if it focused journalists' attention on Biden Administration's policies.
"They don't want to talk about Kamala Harris's border policies making housing unaffordable for American citizens," Vance wrote.
Nobody wants to talk about that because that stupid shit isn’t what’s been happening. High housing prices are linked to high interest rates, which is how the Fed has been trying to bring down inflation — which has worked — and now they’re about to bring rates down. It has nothing to do with the border or immigrants. Not everything does.
Meanwhlie, there are indeed BOMB THREATS in Springfield and that didn’t happen until Trump and Vance started spouting their.ridiculous bigoted (“White Supremacist Generated”) conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants.
And he wants the press to apologize TO HIM for them reporting correctly.
Mutha Fuck this guy.
This demand followed an extensive X post also demanding that “Democrats tone down the rhetoric.”
Ohio Republican U.S. Senator J.D. Vance published a 1203-word diatribe Monday night filled with falsehoods and feeble hypocrisies, demanding that Democrats "tone down the rhetoric" while insisting he opposes "censorship." Critics are accusing the GOP vice presidential nominee of hypocrisy and gaslighting the public, given his and his running mate's lies about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets, and Donald Trump's vicious attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, which mirror what Vance is urging Democrats to not do.
"Reject censorship and you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf," Vance alleged in his post on X, before reaching this dramatic conclusion: "The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one way to permanently silence a human being: put a bullet in his brain."
That's how Vance's screed ended. But it began with a falsehood: "Yesterday, Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life."
He was referring to the alleged attempted assassination on Sunday, during which a 58-year old man who voted for Trump in 2016 before publicly expressing his regret and supporting Republican Nikki Haley this year, was found by a Secret Service agent outside the perimeter of Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf course, 300 to 500 feet away from the ex-president, with an AK-47. The agent shot at the suspect, who had been waiting in the bushes for about 12 hours.
"Ryan Wesley Routh did not fire any shots, never had Trump in his line of sight and sped away after an agent who spotted him shot in his direction, officials said. He was arrested in a neighboring county," NBC South Florida reported.
Fuck you, dude. I’m not toning down shit, because what I’m saying IS TRUE.
And yet Vance wrote, "The rhetoric is out of control. It nearly got Steve Scalise and many others killed a few years ago. It nearly got Donald Trump killed twice" – a clear attack on Democrats despite both alleged attempted shooters targeting Trump were his own supporters, at least at one time. As for the Scalise shooting in 2017, seven years ago, the perpetrator had a 20-year history of run-ins with the police, including an arrest "after a 2006 incident in which he was accused of beating his foster daughter, according to court records. The case crumbled after the victim decided not to testify," Bloomberg reported. Had he been convicted he would have been unable to own a gun.
If we’re gonna go back to Steve Scalese — let me point out someone else besides Trump who was also shot in the head. Gabby Giffords.
Also, Paul Pelosi was attacked by a crazed Trump supporter and had his skull cracked by a hammer.
A Trump supporter perpetrated the attack against Muslims in Christchurch that killed 51 people.
A Trump supporter staged the attack against the El Paso Walmart that killed 23 people.
A Trump supporter staged the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 people.
A Trump supporter staged the attack at the Buffalo Top’s Market that killed 10 people.
And Trump wants sympathy because his ear was grazed? Allegedly.
Frack that guy.
Vance also claimed that "Kamala Harris has said that 'Democracy is on the line' in her race against President Trump. The gunman agreed, and used the exact same phrase."
NCRM could find no news reports making the claim Routh has said that, but you know who has? The American people.
"Americans agree that the future of democracy is on the line in the 2024 election but disagree about who poses the biggest threat," is the headline of a December PBS News report.
"A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62% of adults say democracy in the U.S. could be at risk depending on who wins next fall. Majorities of Democrats (72%) and Republicans (55%) feel the same way, but for different reasons."
Did people on the left call you "Animals?"
Did they call you "Vermin?"
Did they say that all of you were "Rapists?"
Did they threaten to round you all up in camps and deport you?
Fuck No.
Shut the hell up. https://t.co/3RBZSKrOdN— Vyan -Dark Skies on the Horizon on Substack (@Vyan1) September 17, 2024
I am sick of this double-talk and delusional gaslighting. GOPers are declaring up and down that the Biden/Harris Administration and their rhetoric is somehow responsible for what went down in Butler, PA a few weeks ago.
That shooter was a Registered Republican. But we don’t yet have a rationale or a motive as to why the person did what they did. There could be many reasons — but just about the least likely on the table is the idea that Kamala Harris saying Trump is a “threat to democracy” is why he got an AR-15 and crawled out onto a roof to take pot shots at Trump.
We don’t yet know why some guy took an AK-47 to Trump’s Golf Course and laid in wait for him all day. This guy was yet again, a Republican who went from voting for Trump to supporting Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley. Again, why exactly would he be listening to anything Biden or Harris had to say?
Nobody in the Republican party agrees with the allegation.
There’s literally NO EVIDENCE that any rhetoric from ANY Democrat had ANY impact on these people.
I mean, Trump implemented Fake Electors, he bullied and threateened government officials, he told a mob to gather in Washington on a specific day at a specific location and a specific time — when the electoral votes were going to be counted — and then he fired them like a missle at the U.S. Capitol and sat on his fucking hands as all hell broke lose while he complained that “Mike Pence didn’t stand up for us.” He’s been indicted for all this twice, in Washington and in Georgia — but now it’s just “BEYOND THE PALE” to point out that he did all of this?
The fucking evidence is documented in the indictments.
MAGAs try and claim he’s “innocent” because he said “peacefully”— once — but he also said “Fight”, “Fight”, “Fighting” and “Fight like hell or you’re not gonna have a country anymore” 20 different times.
This isn’t something that Democrats just God Damned MADE UP OUT OF THIN AIR. It happened. He did it. We all saw it.
Nine people died.
Was Trump an influence on the people in the attack? You bet your ass he was. They were taking orders from him. They’ve said so. They all walked away when he finally said to.
But MAGAs refuse to believe it. Any of it. So why would two of them go after Trump with guns because of it?
Now we’ve had Trump in front of 63 Million people go “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”
And we’ve had JD Vance double and triple-down on this.
Now — like clockwork — there are bomb threats in Springfield. Just like there were bomb threats against a children’s hospital when Chaya Raichik from Libs of TikTok made the false accusation that children were being “mutilated” there.
Hate machine Libs of TikTok’s owner and operator, Chaya Raichik, was named the cause of Catherine Leavy’s hospital bomb threat by both her lawyer and Boston Children’s Hospital’s lawyer. Let’s talk about the damage that follows in the wake of Raichik’s tweets.
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Boston Children’s Hospital, at least in the case of Catherine Leavy, does not believe incarceration is the solution. See, Leavy phoned in a false bomb threat to BCH in August of 2022, which her lawyers insist was the result of “undergoing a significant medication change and increase, isolated within her family home with no mental health providers or external supports.” They’re asking that Leavy not be incarcerated on the grounds that, due to her own mental health difficulties, she was manipulated and misled by an online disinformation campaign being waged against BCH.
“This campaign has been primarily carried out by four individuals … using their respective social media accounts to spread disinformation to their millions of followers about health care provided to gender-diverse and transgender children at pediatric hospitals around the nation,” wrote the hospital’s attorney, Christopher Viney, in a victim statement filed in US District Court. “In particular, these four instigators have posted inflammatory falsehoods about the health care provided at these hospitals, claiming that there was "castration," and "butchering, mutilating, and sterilizing" of children occurring.”
Helpfully, in their own statement, Leavy’s attorney named the Twitter account they believe is most responsible for her bomb threat: Libs of TikTok.
Trump and Vance have been doing exactly the same thing to Haitians in Springfield. But rather than back off as the violence has increased, they continued while paradoxically calling those on the left who criticize them “inciters of violence.” And then he calls for everyone else to apologize — to him.
Jezus.
Writer Gavin Aronsen pointed out, "Most bomb threats are hoaxes, doesn't make them not threats."
Indeed, under the law, threats of terrorism are considered acts of terrorism, even if they are never carried out.
"I’m sorry you’re such a tool," complained longtime TV writer Steve Marmel. "Does that count? You started this. You admit you make up stories. You aren’t owed an apology, you’re owed an impeachment."
HillReporter writer Tara Dublin replied to Vance saying, "I’m still waiting on a correction and apology from you to Haitian immigrants legally living in Springfield for threatening their lives. You told Dana Bash that you make up stories just like this one, Vladimir Futon You’re a LIAR."
Bastian Brauns, the U.S. correspondent for the German news site T-Online, responded to Vance's communications director, William Martin, saying, "The threats began with Vance and Trump's lies and are terrorizing a city of 70,000 people. They would not have happened out of the blue; it’s fake Vance, not fake media."
This is exactly correct. It’s not like — without Trump — his supporters would have thought to show up at the Capitol and mess with the electoral count process. It’s his statements and actions that entirely put that idea in their heads. None of it would have happened — without him. There’s a direct causal link between him and them.
Also, with what is currently happening in Springfield, it wouldn’t be happening without Trump. It started as a nasty rumor by a bunch of Neo-Nazis that no one reasonable would listen to. Then it went to an obscure Facebook post. Then to Nutbag Laura Loomer, then to Trump — and he PUT IT OUT ON NATIONAL FUCKING TV!
People wouldn’t be attacking that community — without him.
Would these shooters still be going after Trump without Dems or the Media — who Republicans don’t listen to — saying anything? Quite possibly. Nobody knows.
They regularly call us “Vermin”, “Animals”, “Fascists”, “Deranged”, “Psychotic”, “Marxist” and “Scum.” and somehow it doesn’t mean anything — but we’re supposedly “too intense” in our rhetoric when we’re simply saying the truth? Fuck that.
Vance deserves no apology he should be apologizing to people — and especially the Haitians — in Springfield.
And oh by the way — ht comments — Vance’s staff was specifically told by Springfield authorities that the entire pets story was bogus.
Smoking gun': Rage mounts after WSJ reports Vance knew Haitian pet story had no basis
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Springfield city manager Bryan Heck told the Journal that he told a Vance staffer "point blank" the claims were baseless on Sept. 9 — the same day the Ohio Republican posted the claim on X, where it remained as of Wednesday morning — and sparked a backlash from critics.
"A smoking gun," Ohio Capital Journal reporter Marty Schladen responded on X. "Despite at least 33 bomb threats, death threats against public officials, terror among Haitians — in a town in the state he represents — Vance kept saying it anyway."
The Wall Street Journal also reported that, on Tuesday, Vance's campaign gave them the name of a woman who claimed a Haitian had indeed taken her cat in August.
The Journal arrived Tuesday evening to find cat Miss Sassy had returned a few days later and her owner Anna Kilgore had apologized to her Haitian neighbors, the report showed.
So he’s a total shitheel.