Hello America, I'm Mark Levin and this is Life, Liberty and Levin Saturday.
Well last week this time
there was an assassination attempt
on President Donald Trump.
It was horrific
and I must say
shocking because
literally 30-40 minutes before he went on that stage he called me.
He was in a great mood. He was cracking jokes. We were talking about a variety of things and he said, you know Mark,
You must mean a lot to me. There's 50, 000 people out there waiting, and I'm talking to you.
And it occurs to me,
and I've thought about this,
maybe we should have talked a little bit longer.
But that's the way it went.
And by this much,
by this much,
President Trump would not be with us.
It's really hard to stomach when you think about it.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, there's An issue I've been talking about on this network, on radio, on Blaze,
it's called dehumanization.
I've actually written about it in 2 books.
What is dehumanization?
Well, what's been taking place
against Donald Trump is dehumanization.
What am I talking about? The systematic,
relentless,
pervasive,
media, Democrat Party dehumanization.
That is
treating somebody like they're a non-human,
treating somebody like they don't deserve
to be treated with any form of respect whatsoever.
They've done this
repeatedly to many people. In fact, Joe Biden has led the way for his entire career.
Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas,
the Democrat Party, Alito,
Kavanaugh,
Netanyahu,
but the worst of it
has been saved for Donald Trump.
Endless, relentless,
repetitive.
Dehumanization
encourages violence.
Why else use it?
It involves the use of language, controlling language, psychological warfare, repetition,
thought control.
And this is something that
Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals talks about
Alinsky was a Leninist
and very interestingly
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were big Alinskyites
through much of their lives.
13th rule of Alinsky's rules, pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, polarize it.
These are totalitarian
tactics. They are extraordinarily dangerous.
Extraordinarily dangerous. The dehumanization
of Donald Trump, the lawfare,
even the statements in the indictments
are atypical,
over the top.
But ladies and gentlemen, this is something we've been talking about here for some time.
I want to remind you and then I want to address it more fully.
This is here on Fox,
April 1st, 2023.
Go.
The media Democrats and the Democrat Party and so forth, they've attempted to turn Donald Trump into a nonhuman.
In fact, they've attempted to turn you into non-humans.
You hear it all the time.
You and I are responsible
for
insurrections.
You and I are responsible
for racism
in a white-dominant society.
You and I just won't relent
to accepting
redistribution
of wealth, massive increases in taxes,
a bloated centralized government,
equity over equality,
transgendering
our
children,
critical race theory. We just are standing in the way of progress
and
Donald Trump
is standing in the way of progress too. And rather than the normal,
normal
American behavior, which is the debate
challenge,
that's not what Joe Biden and the Democrats do. Now look,
I'm not talking about one-offs
or
somebody making a statement they shouldn't have made. I'm talking about a campaign
to destroy the humanity of an individual.
And this is what the Democrat Party has become. This is what Joe Biden has always
done.
I'm not making a specific connection
between the assassination
attempt 1 week ago today
and this dehumanization
campaign, but I am saying
that it certainly is a major contribution
to an environment
that leads to violence.
When you keep calling somebody Hitler
over and over and over and over again, as I've explained here before,
when you keep claiming they don't have any
positive aspects in their character, that they are a danger,
that they're going to kill people, execute people, lock them up,
destroy democracy.
That has consequences,
unfortunately, that are predictable.
Here again, let's look, June 12, 2022,
on Fox.
Go. Now, as you know, there was
what was to be an assassination attempt on a Supreme Court
justice, Kavanaugh, Brent Kavanaugh.
Brent Kavanaugh
was turned into the enemy of the state by the Democrat Party, by the Washington Post,
by people bearing false witness,
and by others. Day in and day out,
Kavanaugh,
that was the goal to dehumanize
him, to destroy him.
That was the goal in the war against Clarence Thomas. It is now the goal against the Supreme Court, unless of course
the left controls the court, then it's independent, then you're to worship it, then they do movies about their justices.
But not now.
Not now because the left knows it's not gonna get all the decisions at once because it didn't win all the elections that it insisted on winning.
Mr. Kavanaugh's life and potential life as a family
were threatened just a few days ago.
Why were they threatened?
Well, among other reasons, the Democrat Party
and their media mouthpieces
said some things about this court and have said things about Kavanaugh.
This is a disaster,
what the Democrat Party is doing.
Reaching back to Donald Trump, this is what third world types do. This is what Stalin and the other genocidal maniacs have done.
That is, Try to take people who are out of political power and destroy them so they can never come back, so their voices can't be heard.
Smear the people who back them and so forth and so on. Yes, there's an overlay here.
Very quickly, I want you to listen to what Donald Trump said on January 6, 2021,
in relevant part.
Cut 1,
go.
We have come to demand that Congress
do the right thing
and only count the electors who have been lawfully
slated,
lawfully slated.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building
to peacefully and patriotically
make your voices heard. Today we will see whether Republicans
stand strong
for integrity
of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country. That is
about as
passive
a statement you could possibly make,
peacefully
and patriotically.
Does that sound like a man leading an insurrection?
No.
And despite criminal investigations,
media investigations,
a corrupt January 6 Nancy Pelosi pull-up bureau that destroyed half the evidence that they had so you and I wouldn't get the facts.
Not a syllable,
not a word, not a sentence, not a paragraph, not a text, not an email, not a document,
not a video, not an audio, nothing.
Were Donald Trump ever
incited an insurrection,
ever,
which is why he was never charged with it, but you wouldn't know it listening to the media.
November 2023,
there were 2 dozen mentions of Trump and Hitler on CNN and MSNBC.
We have article after article.
Rachel Maddow compares Trump's speech to Hitler's rise.
Wow.
Joy Reid. Like Trump, Hitler was also viewed as
a clown.
Scarborough
likens Trump to Hitler.
Democratic Representative James Clyburn compares Trump to Hitler. The list goes on and on and on.
News Busters, Media Research Center, Morning Joe Can't Stop, Won't Stop Calling Fascist Hitler Trump a Threat to Democracy.
This is July 15th.
This is July 15th, a few days ago,
shortly after the assassination
attempt.
Joy Reid whines, media not calling Trump Nazi, Hitler enough, May 22nd, 2024.
I went online and I posted enough is enough, it's time for Comcast
MSNBC
to remove this woman,
who is the
racist of the racists,
who is the bigot of the bigots.
I would suggest that Joy Reid go ahead and visit,
Auschwitz,
visit 1 of the death camps,
walk through the death camps,
look at the gas chambers,
look at the mass graves,
look at what's there when you keep calling Donald Trump Hitler.
And then look at
the image of Donald Trump at the Western Wall
wearing a yarmulke,
and look at his Jewish grandchildren, and look at his Jewish daughter and his Jewish son-in-law.
And the people of Israel,
most of whom are Jewish,
love Donald Trump.
And yet, Joy Reid
won't stop calling him Hitler.
I wrote a book on freedom of the press in 2019.
In part here's what I said. Even the tone of the press and reporting on President Trump
has reached a level of evictive rarely seen in politics.
The president is repeatedly referred to or impliedly compared to a fascist dictator,
neo-Nazi,
white supremacist, racist, Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini,
and various news outlets and on media platforms
by their journalists,
paid commentators, and invited guests.
These unhinged and shameful characterizations
and rants are so numerous,
they're easily searchable
and profuse
on the internet. Here's a few examples.
When Trump goes out there and whips people up, it's like a Mussolini rally. And yes, that's what I said. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC.
It's our responsibility
to call out those times
when constitutional
norms are being challenged,
Those times when the President of the United States actually channels Joseph Stalin and calls the meaty the enemy of the people
Joe Scarborough MSNBC
Donald Trump talks like a racist thinks like a racist
makes statements like a racist
conjures emotions
that give succor and support to white supremacists and white nationalists.
Oh really? Michael Eric Dyson, MSNBC.
Our president is a disturbed person. He's behaving in ways that are simply inexplicable, " New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
The world witnessed a betrayal the likes of which we've never seen.
America's president sided with its enemy today, at the time CNN's Chris Cuomo.
The spirit of what Trump did is clearly treasonous. It's a betrayal of the United States. He threw our U.S. Intelligence services,
flushed them away, and he came off as being a puppet of Putin.
People are going to say there's the taint of treason around this White House. CNN contributor, at least at the time,
historian Douglas
Brinkley.
Well, if anybody's issuing demented words of violence and death, I would say it's the president of the United States. I mean, it's quite a past we've come to when the leadership of a country like Iran seems more stable and rational than the president of the United States, CNN analyst Max Boot. We got a guy, Trump, who gets up every morning and excretes the feces
of his moral depravity
into a nation he has turned into a psychic commode.
That's what he's done and he's a bigot in chief and a racist in residence.
Look at this mendacious,
relentlessly
lying, bigoted, ill-informed person that we have, MSNBC
political analyst
Michael Eric Dice. It goes on and on and on, ABC,
NBC, CBS,
The New York Times, The Washington Post.
I've been talking about this dehumanization
issue for decades. I wrote about it.
I talked about it on radio 2 weeks before the assassination
attempt.
You know, it's an amazing thing America.
It's an amazing thing what our media have turned into. I call it Al Jazeera
media,
a media that has defended Hamas
against Israel.
I call it also Pravda media,
a media that is loaded with
sympathies and support for Marxist elements in our government,
parts of the Democrat Party, it is awful, absolutely awful.
Are
they going to tamp it down? I don't think they are.
Until these big international corporations
that own CNN and MSNBC
and NBC and CBS and ABC,
until they start firing
some of the worst of the worst.
It's not going to tamp down. As a matter of fact, It's been a week since the assassination attempt on President Trump. And what do you hear them say?
Oh, look at that photograph. We're using that photograph too much where he's standing up after he was shot with his fist in the area and the American flag.
We're turning him into a martyr.
Oh,
he contributed
to his own shooting.
And it goes on and on and on. The poison in the American media
leeches out to the general
population, is relentless,
it is repetitive, it is pervasive.
They target people, they characterise people.