UPDATE: The package sent to NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not a bomb, not related according to NYPD. However, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, another frequent target of TrumpScreed, was targeted with a device.

George Soros. Bill and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Former CIA director John Brennan (via CNN). Eric Holder.

These are the people we know of, as of 1 pm today, who were the intended recipients of explosive devices and some sort of white powder.

Every one of these would-be victims, personally vilified by President Donald Trump.

Soros started the Caravan and paid for anti-Kavanaugh protesters.

The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love!

Wasserman-Schultz rigged the system for Hillary.

“[Wasserman Schultz] worked very hard to rig the system. She worked very, very hard to rig the system. Little did she know that China, Russia, one of our many, many ‘friends’ came in and hacked the hell out of us. Can you imagine what they are hacking? I guarantee that we will find the 33,000 emails. Why did Hillary get rid of her middle name? Why did she? Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary Rotten Clinton. It’s too close,” Trump said in one rambling thought.

Brennan is “a stain on the country.”

He issued a warning to Holder when the former AG said being nice to your bullies is no way to win.

“He’d better be careful what he’s wishing for, that I can tell you. He better be careful what he’s wishing for,” Trump said in an interview with FOX & Friends on Thursday.

“They have to be careful with the rhetoric because it’s very dangerous what Holder says,” the president also said.

CNN is “fake news” and an “enemy of the people.” The Clintons are criminals. Obama is a foreign-born usurper.

Beating these themes like a drum since 2015 when he slithered down the escalator to announce his candidacy to paid-for crowds. Now, we have a slow-motion assassination attempt against more than a half-dozen of people Trump has personally vilified, getting his Nuremberg rally-style crowds to scream in rage, like the famed two minutes of hate in the Orwell classic “1984.”

Yet, the #MAGA heads claim this is yet another false flag. The people who earnestly believe that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta ran a child prostitution ring from a DC pizza restaurant can’t conceive that angry, hate-steeped rhetoric can cause an unstable person to act with murderous intent. It’s easier to believe that Middle Eastern terrorists would go to Honduras and walk 3,000 miles to sneak into the US so they can occupy Minnesota summer homes while their owners are wintering in Florida than it is to believe in the simple relationship of cause and effect.

At the moment, Trump’s only response to the attempted bombings has been a weak “ditto” to a Tweet by Vice President Michael Pence. As I write this, we are 15 minutes away from Trump going on the air to officially address these crimes before heading off to yet another red-meat slinging rally.

Anything less than a demonstrated acknowledgement that his hate-screed is a direct causative to the crime, the one we are talking about today and those yet to be committed in the name of Making America FEAR Again, will not be enough.

Republicans need to disavow — LOUDLY — the sort of rhetoric that causes this sort of intended violence. As long as they offer mealy-mouthed, mewling squeaks of “oh, my, violence is baaaaad…” — they must share in the blame for this and the violence that is almost certainly yet to come.

By The Portly Pundit

After four months in the belly of the right wing media beast, and after a full four days of hot showering, everyone's favorite Portly Pundit is once again weaving tales of progressive pulchritude on Breitbart Unmasked.

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