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"Deafening silence after Mormon church shooter not a 'transgender leftist' but a Trump supporter: the event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America. ...

Almost immediately, speculation swirled on Twitter, with far-right voices rushing to blame a Muslim or a 'transgender leftist,' their favored scapegoats after mass shootings. But early images told a different story:"

~ Erin Reed

#Michigan #MassShooter #Trump #Mormon
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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/deafening-silence-after-mormon-church

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"the truck rammed into the church flew two large American flags and bore an Iraq War veteran plate. The shooter was no Muslim, no trans person. He was a Trump-supporting combat veteran—a cisgender white man who fit the profile of so many American mass shooters.

Just like that, the story faded from the political radar. There were no calls in the aftermath to investigate Trump supporters as potential terrorists."

#Michigan #MassShooter #Trump #Mormon
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"No national conversations about the violent capacity of cisgender men. No discussions about whether white people who fly massive American flags on the backs of their trucks should have their guns taken away. No presidential proclamations casting suspicion on the identity of this mass shooter. Cisgender combat veterans will not spend the days after this tragedy fearing that their rights will be stripped away because of the actions of one man."

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"Investigators are still examining the motives driving Thomas Jacob Sanford, who opened fire on a Mormon church in Michigan, killing four people. Yet White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt quickly linked the killing to an alleged rash of anti-Christian violence."

~ Greg Sargent

#Michigan #MassShooter #Trump #Mormon #Trump #KarolineLeavitt
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https://newrepublic.com/article/201084/trump-press-sec-vile-new-effort-exploit-mormon-shooting-backfires

The New Republic

Trump Press Sec’s Vile New Effort to Exploit Mormon Shooting Backfires

As the White House works to take political advantage of the horrific mass shooting in a Michigan church, an expert on the religious right explains how this illuminates MAGA’s broader Christian nationalist project.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"Sarah Posner … explains how this all sheds light on a bigger story that we saw at play after Charlie Kirk’s assassination too. It’s that Trump and MAGA relentlessly inculcate a sense of persecution among their armies of evangelical supporters, to rally them for religious war against the Democratic, liberal, secular enemy within. Thus far, in this case, the facts aren’t cooperating."

#Michigan #MassShooter #Trump #Mormon #Trump #KarolineLeavitt
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"It was a tale of two media worlds. In the United Kingdom, the headlines on Monday morning told us that the killer who waged a deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan on Sunday was a Trump supporter. …

But back in the United States, not only was that fact not in the headlines--it was either ignored or buried in the article."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Michigan #MassShooter #Trump #Mormon #Trump #media
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/us-corporate-media-ignores-that-man

U.S. Corporate media ignores that man who waged deadly attack on a Mormon church was a Trump supporter

This fact was covered by international media but not US

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