Media, Democrats too quick to blame Trump for mail bombs, which will feed theories of false flag operation

Washington Times:

The list of people targeted with suspected pipe bombs reads like President Trump’s Twitter feed: Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Maxine Waters, George Soros, CNN, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Eric Holder and George Soros, all prominent Democratic critics of the president.

Democrats and the media swiftly blamed Mr. Trump for stirring up public anger against those top liberals, saying his constant mocking tweets and barbs at campaign rallies likely prompted an unstable person to mail the devices.

“The president, and especially the White House press secretary, should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that,” CNN President Jeff Zucker said.

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Others pointed out that neither party has a monopoly on civility and that leftists have been routinely confronting Republican officials in public with hostility and threats.

“We’ve seen calls for incivility from both sides of the political spectrum,” former FBI and CIA official Jeff Beatty said on CNN. “If people are keeping score at home, so far the only people who have had blood spilled are the Republicans.”

He was referring to members of the House Republicans’ baseball team, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was shot during practice in June 2017.
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At the White House, Mr. Trump called for civility and said federal authorities had started a major investigation.

“In these times, we have to unify,” Mr. Trump said. “We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.”

Team Clinton wasn’t buying it. Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines tweeted at the president, “This is on you.”
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This tells you something about the level of hate coming from the Democrat side of the aisle.   It also is significantly premature.  Reports are already coming in that the alleged bombs were non-functional.  In other words, they were an elaborate hoax, which the Democrats are too quick to exploit.  The timing is also suspicious since the Democrats have been on the ropes because of their abusive treatment of Justice Kavanaugh and their failure of leadership on the immigration crisis caused by more "caravans" of illegals being trucked in through Mexico while pretending to march for the cameras.  A forner FBI official who worked on the Unibomber case believes it could be a false flag operation.

The powder in the alleged bombs was described has harmless by law enforcement.