The Left's Assault on the President - AFSI

(and our Democratic Way of Life)

President Donald Trump: facing unprecedented attacks

We have had enough of the left's growing attacks against President Donald Trump. Their assaults against him and the democratic foundations of our nation have become real threats to our country. When (if ever) will they accept that he won the election fairly? If they don't like the results, they should prepare for the next election peacefully, legally and democratically.

We have seen too many violent and crude reactions to his presidency to believe that they are all "one-offs". Instead there is a real concerted effort to bring him down, including by the previous president and secretary of state, certain members of Congress, and of course, that leftist fifth column known as the mainstream media.

From internal leaks from Obama administration holdovers, from false accusations and innuendos about his personal affairs, from slams against his family - this has gone on long enough. He won the election fair and square, accept it and get over it.

How revolting when Madonna talks about blowing up the White House. How disgusting when faux-comedienne Kathy Griffin holds up a bloody severed head of Trump in one of her on-stage shticks. And of course, most recently, how pathetic when a New York City Shakespeare in the Park play portrays a Trump look-a-like as Julius Caesar, only to be assassinated in a violent melee on stage.

AFSI Goes on the Offense

AFSI's Co-Executive Director Helen Freedman penned a letter to the New York Post today, decrying the call for the assassination of Donald Trump in the Julius Caesar production in Central Park. And of course, there is no question that yesterday's shooting of Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in a baseball park is a result of the normalization of incendiary vitriol currently permeating our society, at levels perhaps never seen before.


Here is Helen's letter:


Letter to the Editor
The New York Post

Shakespeare in the Park, founded by Joseph Papp to bring the poetry and majesty of Shakespeare's plays to the public, has been hijacked to send the most craven and malicious messages to an unsuspecting audience in Central Park.

How dare the producers and director and all those involved with the Julius Caesar production in the park distort it to encourage the assassination of our democratically elected American President, Donald Trump? As an American, a former high school English teacher who taught the play many times, and a member of Drama Desk, I am disgusted and appalled at the politically venomous presentation of the "stabbing to death of a blond-haired, tie-clad Caesar."

I applaud Delta Air Lines and Bank of America for their principled stands in withdrawing support for the Public based on this disgraceful distortion of Julius Caesar. Other sponsors should follow suit.

Helen Freedman


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As a followup, here are several links to articles about this despicable Julius Caesar production:

'Julius Caesar' to continue despite mounting controversy

Political death threats becoming new, unsettling normal

The following piece in Arutz Sheva posits that the target of yesterday's shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise was actually President Trump himself, as the left is going all out in this open season on the President and all Republicans.
Trump was the real target