Liberals aren't having an easy time with Donald Trump's recent winning streak. One journalist for the BBC went so far as to call for Trump to be murdered after Supreme Court handed him a huge victory.
69-year-old David Aaronovitch, host of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room, called on Joe Biden to have Trump killed, suggesting Biden can do so legally in light of the Supreme Court's historic ruling on immunity.
“If I was Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security,” he wrote on X.
As the backlash started to come in, Aaaronovitch said he was only joking and the "far right" was triggered.
"There’s now a far-right pile on suggesting that my tweet about the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity is an incitement to violence when it’s plainly a satire. So I’m deleting it. If nothing else though it’s given me a map of some the daftest people on this site," he wrote.
The back end of Aaronovitch's original post calling Trump "a threat to America's security" sounds like an earnest statement, not a joke. In any event, it's a twisted thing to joke about.
Besides being deeply disturbing, Aaronovitch's "take" is profoundly unoriginal.
Many, many liberals reacted to the court's ruling with the same "joke" that Joe Biden can now legally murder Trump.
Some aren't cloaking their malice in irony. Orange Is The New Black actress Lea DeLaria went on a deranged rant demanding that Biden "take out" Trump, whom she compared to Hitler.
"Trump is Hitler, and this is 1940. Take him the f*** out," she said.
The court's own liberal wing wrote a pair of hand-wringing dissents claiming the Supreme Court had placed presidents "above the law."
Obama appointee Sonia Sotomayor directly invoked the scenario of the President ordering SEAL Team Six to take out political rivals.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, dismissed the dissents as "fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals." Roberts also accused the dissent of ignoring a more realistic danger of presidents prosecuting one another in a vicious cycle.
The court's ruling is widely seen as dashing any chance of Trump being prosecuted for January 6th before the election, so liberals are very angry to say the least.
The Supreme Court's ruling came days after Joe Biden imploded in his debate with Trump, sending Democrats into a panic.
