Despite two assassination attempts, NY Times blames Trump for 'angry culture' that can lead to violence

The New York Times editorial committee pointed the digit astatine President Donald Trump connected Friday pursuing different incidental of deadly governmental violence.

In a caller editorial, the committee said Trump is the main idiosyncratic to blasted for America sliding into an epoch marked by governmental violence. 

"Although Mr. Trump has been a idiosyncratic unfortunate of this violence, helium besides deserves peculiar work for our aggravated culture," the committee declared.

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The New York Times editorial committee argued Friday that President Trump bears "particular responsibility" for the governmental unit successful America.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The header read, "The Nation Encourages Political Violence by Allowing It to Seem Normal." 

The Times published the portion days aft the deadly shootings that claimed the lives of Minnesota authorities legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and resulted successful the wounding of authorities Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, past weekend.

The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, was arrested connected Sunday pursuing a two-day manhunt successful Minnesota aft helium allegedly posed arsenic a constabulary serviceman and killed the Hortmans. The erstwhile day, helium carried retired a related onslaught against Hoffman and his wife.

Boelter was recovered with a cache of weapons, including astatine slightest 3 AK-47 battle rifles and a 9mm handgun, on with a manifesto that listed 70 names and addresses, immoderate of which belonged to different nationalist officials.

The Friday editorial argued that this latest politically motivated onslaught represents a "surge successful governmental unit during the Trump years" that has imperiled not lone American lives but besides our country’s corporate memory."

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Boards screen the doors and windows extracurricular the location of DFL State Rep. Melissa Hortman connected June 15, 2025, successful Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were changeable and killed. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The committee recounted respective high-profile instances of governmental unit that person occurred successful America successful the past decade, listing the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., successful 2017, the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, the onslaught connected erstwhile House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., husband, and the 2 assassination attempts connected Trump, arsenic portion of the "grim catalog of governmental unit successful caller years."

It declared that "Fear has go a information of beingness for politicians," elsewhere noting that "Democrats and Republicans alike person been the victims" of attacks driven by "demonizing comments" that radical "on some the firth and the near prosecute in."

The committee past blamed Trump for this, justifying the constituent successful stating, "He uses threatening connection successful ways that nary different modern president has. He praises radical who perpetrate unit successful his name, specified arsenic the Jan. 6 rioters, galore of whom helium has pardoned, contempt their attacks connected constabulary officers and others. He sometimes seems incapable of extending basal decency to Democrats."

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"Instead of calling Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota to explicit condolences astir the killings of 2 of his friends, Mr. Trump insulted Mr. Walz," the portion stated, adding, "It is nary coincidence that hatred crimes person surged, according to the F.B.I., during Mr. Trump’s decennary arsenic a ascendant governmental figure."

Other Democratic Party leaders person made the same argument astir Trump successful the days since the Minnesota lawmaker shooting. Figures similar erstwhile New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., pointed to the president erstwhile asked this week what has led to much convulsive incidents that look to beryllium politically motivated. 

The Trump medication has rejected these statements, with White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson telling Fox News Digital earlier this week, "Democrats are incorrect to exploit this calamity and blasted President Trump… President Trump – the subsister of 2 assassination attempts – is uniting the state done patriotism, prosperity, and success. Radical Democrats indispensable halt with their divisive, convulsive rhetoric."

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