FIVE YEARS AGO: When the Left Rampaged, the Lib Media Blamed Trump

It’s Donald Trump’s first summer back in the White House since 2020 and — just like five years ago — leftists protesters are raging in America’s cities and the liberal media are blaming… Trump. Earlier this month, ABC’s Mary Bruce scorned the President’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles as “a remarkable and unprecedented escalation” and evidence of his “eagerness to used armed forces to try and shut down protests.”

In another echo of 2020, there has been little bad press for the actual rioters; CNN and MSNBC described them as “peaceful,” “mostly peaceful” or “largely peaceful” a whopping 211 times just on June 6 and 7 — even as the mob burned cars, looted stores and hurled rocks and other dangerous objects at law enforcement.

It’s as if lazy reporters merely dusted off their scripts from five years ago. Back then, the ostensible reason for the protests was the murder in late May of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, but the demonstrations quickly became a violent vehicle for broader left-wing rage against Trump administration policies and the President himself.