Why Trump & Vance Are Suddenly SILENT About This Church Shooting

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Over the weekend in Michigan, a gunman opened fire at a Mormon church. JD Vance and Kash Patel shared their thoughts and prayers – but nothing else, a stark contrast from the Charlie Kirk-induced haze of live-tweeted investigations and breathless declarations against left-wing and trans political violence. “Why would they not do that in this case?” Mehdi asks. “Could it possibly be because the shooter is not trans, is not an immigrant, is not a Mexican, is not a Muslim, is not leftist?”

In other autocratic news, Trump said he authorized deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, casting protesters as “domestic terrorists.” This comes as the president signed a directive identifying labels like ‘anti-American’ and ‘anti-capitalist’ as terror indicators – essentially criminalizing political views. “This is ‘war on terror’ on steroids,” Mehdi says. It’s not just Muslims anymore – it’s anyone who opposes Trump.

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