Joseph Farah complains in his June 24 WorldNetDaily column:
At what point does the left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome cross the line of criminality?
In criminal law, incitement is defined as encouraging another person to commit a crime.
Threatening the president is a felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. It consists of knowingly and willfully mailing or otherwise making “any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States.” This also includes presidential candidates and former presidents. The Secret Service is charged with investigating suspected violations.
There’s been far too much of this going since the day Trump was elected president – in fact, even before.
Celebrities seem especially susceptible to Trump Derangement Syndrome – probably because there is absolutely no price to pay career-wise. In fact, it probably helps. You don’t get the Roseanna Barr treatment if your venomous wrath is directed Trump-ward.
As usual, Farah has forgotten what he’s been doing for a living the past couple decades. We doubt Farah was concerned about Barack Obama’s safety when he peddled lies and fake news about the president for eight years. We also don’t recall Farah being offended when Ted Nugent effectively threatened Obama’s life in 2007 when he called Obama a “piece of shit” who should “suck on my machine gun”; not only has Nugent never faced any consequences for it, Farah effectively rewarded him for it a few years later by giving him a column at WND with Farah gushing, “Ted Nugent rocks!”
Farah then complained that “what we euphemistically call the ‘mainstream media’ … portrays Trump as a criminal, a Nazi, a white supremacist, an uncaring bigot, a let-them-eat-cake billionaire, a sociopath.” Farah apparently doesn’t remember that WND used most of those words to attack Obama, with the added slur of Antichrist.
Farah is so obtuse (perhaps strategically so) that doesn’t see he’s criticizing people for doing to Trump what he did to Obama. Unless he can honestly own up to — and apologize for — his role in creating the toxic political environment he now decries because it’s his guy being targeted instead of him doing the targeting, WND will never be taken seriously.