New York Times best-selling author Michael Harriot is trying to squash right-leaning criticism of Trump’s would-be assassin by claiming the trigger man was just another “Dollar Store white boy.”
In a post to X dated July 14, Harriot suggested it is time to tell “both sides” to “tone down the political rhetoric.”
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He then went on to mock the right, saying, “Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in w/the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in CRT at Antifa University.”
Harriot concluded, “[The shooter] was just another random, Dollar Store white boy with an easily purchased semiautomatic light rifle BECAUSE IT ALMOST ALWAYS IS.”
In a post-attempted assassination Facebook post, Harriot wrote, “When are we going to do something about this white on white violence?”
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