why did the 2023 incident receive almost no coverage and the the incident this weekend receives wall-to-wall breaking news, push notification/headline coverage? what's different? who makes that decision and what are their motivations? who does that decision help?
People think you are somehow being absurd when you say MSNBC wants Trump to win because they have a couple primetime shows hosted by Maddow and Chris Hayes but their morning bloc is hosted by a former GOP congressman. NBC Universal's leaders are Republicans bsky.app/profile/buck...
Because Biden didn’t say a word about it, and Trump is milking it like the con man he is.
I’d guess the context of the Butler incident plus determined efforts by the Trump people and their surrogates to stoke outrage
You would think that there'd have been more attention paid, because of the novelty, to the 2017 attempt to kill Trump by flipping the presidential limo with a forklift.
Gregory Lee Leingang, 42, of Bismarck, pleaded guilty last month to using a forklift to try to kill President Trump.
I think that there are multiple answers here. The "innocent" one is that there was a recent (almost successful) attempt which generated HUGE engagement from the public. So another attempt get hyped because people are primed to just go "omg it happened AGAIN?!" There definitely is bias at play tho