Medias shrug at assassins, race grifters exposed and other commentary

“It’s difficult to overstate how extraordinary it is to have two assassination attempts against a former president and presidential candidate coming within weeks of each other,” remarks Ashley Rindsberg at UnHerd.Sunday’s “aborted shooting raises questions” on the Secret Service’s “ability — and willingness — to protect Donald Trump.” “If this were a systemic issue” with the agency, “then why would Trump be the only candidate subject to not just one but two attempts?” Yet, “we have seen virtually no journalistic task forces” and “no searing investigations into the Secret Service.” Worse, “a precedent is being set where political violence against a candidate” who’s “been positioned by the media as an imminent threat to American democracy itself is met with a collective shrug.”“Pulsed microwave standoff attacks by Russian military intelligence operatives” caused traumatic brain injuries to his family, notes Mark Lenzi at The Hill — for which “the U.S.

government has paid my family more than $1 million.” The attacks “caused panic in Washington but have since been buried and the details withheld from Congress.” “The greatest disappointment”? The government “completely turned its back on me and my family.” “The American people have a right to know which country caused the injuries for which their tax dollars have compensated us.” Yet “the State Department and the Intelligence Community have gone to incredible lengths to try to silence me, to prevent me” from briefing Congress.Legislators “need to hear the truth to serve your constituents as they deserve.”“To see how debased ‘progressives’ have become, behold Robin DiAngelo stumping up 30 bucks in ‘reparations’ to an African-American gent,” snarks Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill of a scene “in Matt Walsh’s new film, Am I Racist?, a Borat-style mockumentary that sends up race grifters.” DiAngelo offered “a grovelling apolog...