There is no question President Trump has said despicable things about the media being an enemy of the American people and Milo declaring journalists should be gunned down confirms he is an excretion of a man.
But today's shooting at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland which claimed the lives of five journalists isn't about Trump and isn't about Milo. The person responsible for this act had a long standing grudge against the paper stemming from a 2011 article which had noted his conviction for harassing a woman. He would unsuccessfully file suit against the paper the following year representing himself in court. Tom Marquardt, the then publisher of The Capital Gazette, told Los Angeles Times reporters Matt Pearce and Richard Winton that the subject of the article was crazy enough to shoot up the paper. This man was enthralled with the 2015 Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris and the live execution of two journalists in Virginia by a former colleague also in 2015.
To be sure, today's tragedy makes both Trump and Milo's remarks all the more irresponsible especially Trump given his current position. They ought to be more circumspect in what they say. With that said, neither of them are responsible for what happened this afternoon in Annapolis.
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