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When Will Rageful Democrats Embrace Trump's Message Of Peace, Wonders Dumbest Law Professor Alive

Jonathan Turley explains how Democrats are REALLY responsible for heated political rhetoric.

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Campaign ads may soon leave your televisions, but that doesn’t mean Jonathan Turley is done trying to squeeze another 15 minutes of cable news fame out of this contest. The GW Law professor — though he seems to consider “journalism” as his current profession — has slipped one more hot take in under the wire before the polls close tonight. He has a new article at Fox.com, Turley’s patron in his quest for TV stardom, bemoaning the level of “rage” behind this election.

And by “rage” he means specifically AND EXCLUSIVELY “Democrats criticizing Trump.”

When President Joe Biden took the podium in his hometown of Scranton, Pa., to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, many expected a return to the “self-professed unifier” Biden from the 2020 election, particularly after his recent comments calling tens of millions of Trump supporters “garbage.”

Wow, what were the odds that Turley would be an Apostrophe Truther? Gotta be like 1-in-1, right?

Like any committed sycophant, Turley dutifully climbed on board with the theory that while an apostrophe is inaudible to most humans, he can personally hear the difference between “supporter’s” and “supporters” and can confirm that Biden said the latter. This pet theory of the right — and by this I mean a “pet” theory they devote special attention to and not a “pet” theory about migrants eating cats — only makes sense if you assume Joe Biden has no idea how subject-verb agreement works. Because when someone says “The only garbage I see floating out there IS…” they’re unlikely to be referring to “tens of millions.”

If so, they were disappointed when it turned out to be the “take him behind the Gym” Biden. Speaking through clenched teeth, Biden seethed that he wanted to “smack [Trump] in the ass.” Even with the Harris campaign alarmed over his costly gaffes, Biden clearly could not resist the rage. He is not alone.

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Oh no! A spanking? Political violence of the highest order, to be sure. Nothing could possibly compare to this threat of vicious buttwarming.

In the last week, Trump got his audience hyped up to imagine Liz Cheney staring down nine rifles:

In Trump’s defense, he wasn’t suggesting that he’d put the former high-ranking GOP congresswoman in front of a firing squad, but critiquing her hawkish foreign policy politics despite never serving herself. I dunno, maybe she has bone spurs.

But that doesn’t make Trump’s remarks any less of a violent, evocative image tailored for an audience that tried to hang Trump’s own vice president the last time he accused a Republican of disloyalty to Dear Leader.

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Plus the claim seems factually dubious.

On the heels of these remarks, Trump showed a lighter side while pointing to the bulletproof glass at his rallies. And by “lighter side,” we mean:

Speaking about the bulletproof glass positioned in front of his lectern, the former president said that for a bullet to hit him in an attempted assassination, a shooter would have to “shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.”

Turley wrote some disingenuous tripe about protecting the press less than a week ago (addressed here). Apparently his concern for his profession does not extend to telling the folks that stormed the Capitol that he wouldn’t mind someone killing the press corps.

But again, no comparison to a man about to turn 82 joking about a schoolyard fistfight.

Literally last night…

Also, who’s praising Penn State after Saturday? That might have been the most embarrassing sequence of goal line playcalling in history!

In any event, Trump continued:

We could go on and on pointing to the unhinged violent rhetoric from this guy that Turley steadfastly refuses to even acknowledge in an article about “rage” in elections. Remember when he told his followers he’d pay their legal fees if they beat up protestors? He ultimately refused after they took him up on it. Hell, if Turley thinks Kathy Hochul saying it’s “anti-American” to support Trump is bad — and it is the very example he opens his article with — then where’s Turley’s scolding of Trump referring to Democrats generally as “the enemy within?”

Again, we could go on but the Penn State-UFC Migrant Smackdown remarks form a poignant bookend to Turley’s pathetic polemic.

However, in flying to New York this weekend to join the Fox election coverage, I had a moment of real hope. I was driven to the airport by a man who told me that he was just months from his citizenship and how he and his wife were so thankful to soon be U.S. citizens. He came from a Middle Eastern nation where he long admired the United States for its freedoms, particularly the freedom of speech….

He then told me how confused he and his wife are by this election. They love the United States and cannot understand why people are so hateful and angry. “It is like they do not understand what they have here,” he noted.

Turley milks this anecdote to provide an illusion of gravitas to the piece. But you can’t begin to process the dissonance of juxtaposing this Horatio Alger, Shining City on A Hill bullshit in an article lifting up a candidate who used his office to kidnap migrant children for up to four years and now glibly talks about converting college football players into Ultimate Fighting Gladiators to brutalize immigrants for his amusement.

Trump literally imposed a ban on Muslim immigrants. Like, you know, the friendly man that Turley turned into a pawn to put a vaguely artsy frame on his MAGA agitprop.

Gee, why are people “so hateful and angry” muses the immigrant driver, pleasantly chatting with a law professor who spends his waning career offering pseudo-intellectual cover for a movement frothing at the mouth that migrants are eating all the dogs and cats.

If he only knew. Dude, the problem is coming from inside the car!

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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