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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T16:56:46.000Z",
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    "https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/12/wapo-gets-all-hand-wringy-because-people-are-suggesting-trump-needs-to-be-assassinated/"
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  "textContent": "submitted by Powderhorn to politics\n23 points | 2 comments\nhttps://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/12/wapo-gets-all-hand-wringy-because-people-are-suggesting-trump-needs-to-be-assassinated/\n\n> Let’s make one thing clear before I start digging into the Washington Post firing up its teapot-based Tempest Generator: I do not support the assassination of Donald Trump. I am understandably impatient with the “let nature take its course” progression we’ve observed so far, but I would not encourage anyone to expedite this process in bullet form.\n>\n> That being said, what the fuck is the Washington Post even doing here?\n>\n>> Peyton Vanest was fuming about President Donald Trump when he grabbed his phone and hit record. “Somebody should,” he declared, pausing for dramatic effect. “Somebody should, you know?”\n>>\n>> “If somebody knew what needed to be done, that person should probably just do it …” the 27-year-old progressive influencer continued, conspicuously not defining “it.”\n>>\n>> […]\n>>\n>> Vanest’s vague plea — posted 18 days before the third apparent attempt on Trump’s life in less than two years — is part of a social media trend that has twisted the idea of a presidential assassination into a morbid joke.\n>\n> The “vague plea” that opens this (is it an op-ed or what is it exactly?) article by the Washington Post gathered “3.2 million views.” The way these paragraphs flow together invite an inference that cannot plausibly be made: that people fucking around on the internet somehow led to the shooting (mostly of the shooter) at the White House Correspondents Dinner.",
  "title": "WaPo Gets All Hand-Wringy Because People Are Suggesting Trump Needs To Be Assassinated"
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