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Trump’s Long Legacy of Inciting Violence

Mother Jones illustration; Tasos Katopodis/Getty It was no surprise. Instead, call it the October reveal. In the final days of the 2024 election,...

03.11.2024 20

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Trump’s Extreme Rhetoric Is Echoing in Threats of Violence

Donald Trump in silhouette Abaca Press/AP Donald Trump’s rhetoric during his 2024 campaign has been the darkest in modern memory. He has...

24.10.2024 5

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Trump Used Site of First Assassination Attempt to Boost Falsehoods

A supporter at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, PA, on Oct. 5 Jen Golbeck/AP Donald Trump has faced two assassination attempts in the past three...

07.10.2024 7

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Trump Amplifies His Dangerous Hate Speech Against Migrants

Trump speaks at a campaign event on Sept. 28, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. Morry Gash/AP For much of 2024, Donald Trump has used demagoguery...

01.10.2024 20

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Trump Seeks to Exploit Assassination Attempts for Political Gain

Alex Brandon/AP In the early afternoon on Sunday, a suspected gunman got within several hundred yards of former President Donald Trump at his golf...

17.09.2024 30

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A New Reckoning for Parents of School Shooters

Flags fly at half-staff outside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Mike Stewart/AP In the aftermath of the bloodbath on Wednesday at...

06.09.2024 4

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Project 2025 Backers Push Propaganda About the Trump Shooting

Mother Jones; Heritage Foundation; Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Just hours after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler,...

04.09.2024 10

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Trump’s Baseless Claims About the Assassination Attempt Are Dangerous

Mark Peterson/Pool/Getty Ever since the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the former president and his allies have promoted...

29.08.2024 5

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Trump’s Dangerous Campaign of Hatred Against Migrant “Invaders”

Mother Jones; Carol Guzy/ZUMA (2) On the morning of August 3, 2019, a 21-year-old man walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and opened fire with...

12.08.2024 10

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JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump

Vance introducing Trump at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024 Ben Gray/AP Campaigning in Atlanta on Saturday, Republican vice presidential...

05.08.2024 5

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Trump Allies Promote Conspiracy Theories About the Assassination Attempt

Mother Jones; ZUMA In the two-plus weeks since a gunman opened fire at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, some details have...

30.07.2024 10

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Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting

Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024 Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former...

26.07.2024 6

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Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt

At the 2024 GOP convention in Milwaukee Tom Williams/AP Since a 20-year-old gunman opened fire more than a week ago at former President Donald...

23.07.2024 6

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The Troubling Mystery of the Trump Shooter’s Motive

Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Photo/The Washington Post/Getty Five days after the horrific attempt on Donald Trump’s life at a campaign...

18.07.2024 20

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Trump Again Demonizes Migrants for “Poisoning Our Country”

Donald Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday night, where the two talked about the biggest topic in political media: Joe...

09.07.2024 10

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Trump Is Inciting Violence as the Election Approaches

Samuel Corum/Getty The public has long been accustomed to Donald Trump saying outrageous things, even when he appears to encourage political...

26.06.2024 8

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A Warning Label for Social Media Could Also Save Kids From Gun Violence

A boy and his father using a video game-style gun at the NRA convention in 2013. Johnny Hanson/ Houston Chronicle/AP On Monday, US Surgeon...

18.06.2024 3

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Why I Spent Two Years Investigating a Notorious Mass Shooting

Ten years ago, a 22-year-old murdered six college students in a suicidal rampage near Santa Barbara, California. Those students were Weihan Wang,...

16.05.2024 20

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School Shooter’s Mother Convicted in Historic Manslaughter Trial

Jennifer Crumbley testifies in an Oakland County, Mich., courtroom, Feb. 1, 2024 Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP In a historic decision on...

06.02.2024 10

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