After what may be another attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, masked cowards waited outside the scene of the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting with signs calling for “all tyrants” to die.
You know who the real tyrants are? The ones who murder their political opponents. The ones who keep trying to kill the leader of the free world, and justify it by calling him a “fascist.”
They’re not just tyrants, they’re despicable terrorists.
TRUMP AND CABINET MEMBERS EVACUATED FROM CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER AFTER SHOOTING
Along with other members of the Washington Examiner crew, I was just feet away from the door the shooter attempted to breach. Everyone was horrified as shots rang out. We hit the ground, and I was lucky enough to come away relatively unscathed apart from being hit in the head with a chair someone flung in desperation.
That horror, that terror, was exactly what the shooter hoped to achieve, short of his likely goal of killing Trump. Earlier in the night, as the media walked into the Washington Hilton — where Ronald Reagan was shot over four decades ago — we were met with dozens of protestors yelling in our faces, accusing us of being complicit in a made-up “genocide” and calling Trump a pedophile.
Then after we heard gunshots outside the doors and were left to consider what was almost carried out in front of us, we were greeted outside by absolute scumbags holding signs glorifying the act. Of course, they were wearing masks.
The message from the Left is clear: if you have any association with Trump, you’re fair game as a target for terrorism. It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of journalists in attendance can’t stand Trump. I have been a Trump supporter for over a decade, but I have never been more proud to support him than I am today — even more so than after the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting.
We must respond to these cowards not by shrinking in fear, but through boldness. Like him or not, we must come together around our president and restore some level of decency to political discourse. One side labels their opponents as “fascists” and debates using bullets; our side must fire back with the same intensity — but without the violence.
Terrorists win when their attacks produce fear and compliance. Freedom wins when terrorism is met with defiant chants of “USA, USA, USA” — those chants broke out after the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting just as it did after the Butler attempt on Trump’s life.
My message to those losers outside the White House Correspondents Dinner is simple: You want to kill tyrants? Look in the mirror and see what you’ve become.