Acosta describes crowd reaction: He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat.

[kpete]

The disturbing part of Trump’s jokes about Gianforte was the effect on the crowd. I saw one young man in the crowd making body slam gestures. He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat. I talked to him after the rally was over. He couldn’t stop laughing.

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

1. Sick. Scary. Disturbing.

And he gets away with inciting violence against reporters.

[gratuitous]

32. No, no, no!

It's the angry liberal mob that's violent, not the calm, dispassionate white fans of our favorite president (Trump!).

/s

Why the media continue to give the Republicans a fair shake is beyond me. Remember, in addition to praising a Republican body-slamming a reporter, Trump also tweeted out that .gif showing him sucker-punching a guy with a CNN logo for a head. Note to the media: These aren't jokes. This isn't just kidding around. This is the Republicans telling you how they will soon be treating you. Khashoggi isn't just the latest extreme example. When the New York Times reports with a straight face on the latest plan to assign blame for Khashoggi, this is naked, rampant corruption and criminality.

Call it for what it is, or expect to see more violence against the media, like the Capital Gazette massacre. (And how has THAT little episode been allowed to fall down the memory hole?)

[Solly Mack]

44. Oh, yeah. Silly me. It's the "mob".

Exactly. Call it what it is.

[spanone]

2. I'm convinced trump high-fived someone over Khoshoggi killing.

fuck him

[bullwinkle428]

8. I said in another thread that he viewed this as a test case - haven't the slightest

doubt he fantasizes about having this done to his critics here.

[hatrack]

14. Next comes a journalist who IS an American citizen, murdered overseas . . .

Then a journalist and US citizen murdered here at home.

They'll just keep pushing it as far as they possibly can.

And why not? It's worked out fine for them so far, and it keeps the grift going, and the rubes will fucking eat it up.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. .

[calimary]

34. There are NO consequences for this horrid shit.

Until there are, this will continue. Wonder who the next victim will be?

[LiberalFighter]

56. Yep! There need to be consequences.

Before there are victims.

[Bradshaw3]

36. Spot on n/t

[Totally Tunsie]

45. That's a damn scary thought, but sadly you might be right.

[meadowlark5]

31. Trump wishes he could do it to anyone - poison critics and informants like Putin does

Kill journalists that write mean things about him. Of course he wishes he could do it. Exterminate whole swaths of the population that are against him or don't have any value like Duterte or al-Assad.

He's an awful, ugly excuse for a human. And if the media and press don't start reporting the truth and help take this asshole down, that is exactly what their profession will become. Only writing/reporting flattering things about him or risk, at the very least, jail.

[Hortensis]

9. I strongly suspect he blocked the standard warning to

Khashoggi that we always give when we intercept information about danger to them. You know, our previously longstanding standard practice based on decency and humanitarian concerns. We even have a numbered form for it.

[Trueblue Texan]

11. I think MBS told Trump he could impress him with murdering a WAPO...

...journalist and Trump loved the idea. He'll probably order more of those in exchange for a weapons deal.

[Mr.Bill]

47. I'm convince he ordered the killing and set it up. n/t

[AdamGG]

61. It's possible he high fived someone about it before it happened

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. Kick for exposure

Trump must be stopped.

[genxlib]

4. Clearly

This is because the Democrats lack civility.

[democratisphere]

5. drumpf supporters are mentally ill.

Sick!

[world wide wally]

10. That sums it up.

As Obama said, "Trump is just a symptom"

[Texin]

20. No doubt some are mentally ill. The rest are just sociopaths.

They are devoid of empathy and are sadistic. That does not make them insane.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

59. It doesn't qualify them as sane either !

[KentuckyWoman]

38. No they aren't

They are just mean ass selfish fuckers who hate.

it isn't a sickness. It's a putrid soul. Sickness you can treat. This you can't.

[DemocracyMouse]

51. If being in an information backwater equals illness, then most Americans are ill

Typo

[malaise]

6. The real MOB on display

egged on by their leader

[Ohiogal]

7. You nailed it.

[Achilleaze]

12. And republicans like to imagine that they are "christians"

They should get someone to read the Bible to them, and maybe get a clue sometime.

[catbyte]

17. No kidding.

[IMG][/IMG]

[CrispyQ]

27. LOL

[FiveGoodMen]

43. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will.

Jesus is just a brand name to them.

[maxrandb]

13. So Media...Why continue to enable him?

I swear to God, the media are like chickens covering Colonel Sanders rallies. I guess chickens have to be able to "see it from the side" of the fucking people that want to slaughter and eat them.

How many of you need to get chopped to bloody bits before you STOP with the "both-siderism" bullshit?

Look, just because a minority of crazy people decided to elect this orange shitgibbon, that DOES NOT mean you have to pretend that he's a real fucking president!

He's a fucking fraud and a con man. He's been a fraud and a con man his entire life. Maybe you should just report that, and stop trying to find some kernel...some fucking spec...some neutron size sliver of anything he says that would be of any worth.

[llmart]

15. +1000

[smirkymonkey]

18. Thank YOU!

Jeeze! Wake the fuck up, people! They are coming for you!

[happy feet]

29. This!

[MojoWrkn]

42. Yeah, WHY? Are you masochists? I could go forever

and NEVER see him or hear him again and I'd be happy! If you must report on what he says, you read it, stop playing clips of him! I believe CNN, NBC, MSNBC et al, are partly responsible for his election. They were so happy to have him on either live on by phone and look what that got us!

[sharedvalues]

55. Yes. Media, come on.

[uponit7771]

60. +1

[CrispyQ]

16. And the republican party has shown that they will back Trump no matter what.

They are now going to malign the character of Khashoggi in an effort to save Trump.

NEVER FORGET:

[RVN VET71]

24. Never will I vote for any Republican ever again

I voted for George H. W. Bush because Dukakis was an embarrassment and Bush Sr. was relatively moderate. I won't vote for any Republican after Trump-McConnell-Ryan-Boehner-Gingrich because the Party has shown itself to be run at the top by hateful and hurtful, soulless people out for power and money and damn the rest of us -- at least 98% of us.

We have to do whatever we can to expunge the Republican blight from our country. Either that, or we will all succumb to its abuses and excesses.

[dalton99a]

19. His use and abuse of journalists was well known - they should have boycotted his campaign

[RVN VET71]

25. Let me join the list of normal humans who have said

Fu*k that guy!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. Grandpa at his very finest.

[TheCowsCameHome]

39. I hope you trip on your oxygen tubes, Gramps

[hostalover]

53. What a jerk!

[rickford66]

30. Age or IQ ?

[Luka Boyd]

21. Enemy of the people

Some magazine or newspaper needs to have the balls to publish a front page headline or better yet a cover page with Traitrumps photo and a huge headline reading "The enemy of the people"

[mountain grammy]

22. Cheering a murderer. Why not?

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. Trump has harvested a crop of deranged vegetables.

Absolutely sickening.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

33. They probably wish they could dismember a journalist's body

They take their marching orders from up on high and these deplorables would want to kill journalists with impunity just like the saudis. Election day can't come soon enough.

[elmac]

35. when a mob boss gives odrers to his soldiers

its never straight out kill this, murder that, its through gestures, hints. The tRump crime family is as dangerous as any in this countries history.

[dlk]

37. The Fascists Have Arrived

[jalan48]

40. Our decades long slide into Fascism is reaching critical mass.

[Ilsa]

41. I wish a wonan would body slam trump. Ultimate put-down

for the misogynist.

[Grasswire2]

46. my jaw dropped

I thought at first read that Trump had made the throat slitting gesture to Acosta. That's next, I guess.

[bucolic_frolic]

48. to these type of followers Trump is like

a narcotic upper stimulant for their sadism and hatred these people are sick

[LS_Editor]

49. Stop fucking covering the rallies. Enablers.

You can't be a pimp and a prostitute, too.

[colsohlibgal]

50. History Tends To Repeat

Drumpf’s rallies look just about like Hitler’s rallies in the 30s.

We must take back the House at a minimum. About half or so of that evil idiot’s supporters are basically Nazis , the other half have taken leave of their senses.

Just think, those people cannot watch any of the late night shows, are hat all, as they should, rip that jerk to shreds. He shouldn’t be President he should be in jail or an Insane Asylum. And yet millions saw him as Presidential material.

[ProudLib72]

52. I have a cunning plan

Do not stop covering the rallies. But while you are covering them, focus on the assholerly that goes on. Do not pay any attention to what the Rump says or does, only his magats. Show the audience at home how despicable they are. Discuss their behavior with guest psychologists. Forget the Rump and turn this shit show around on THEM!

[lunasun]

54. ++Good midterm tv ads too. Airheads just think they are over patriotic no idea of the violent wishes

these trumpers have. Need exposure light on these cockroaches

[Oneironaut]

57. Trump rallies are essentially WWE events for people who think wrestling is real.

[the_sly_pig]

58. The only remedy is to either laugh at these clowns....

Or knock their effin teeth in for them. You can’t fix stupid.