Joe Lombardo is the current Clark County Sheriff in Nevada and he’s running for governor. He caught our attention last month when he said in a text that he’d like to see Brian Greenspun, the owner of the Las Vegas Sun, out of business. The horror doesn’t end there, though.
As we all learned from the Donald Trump administration, the most endangered minority of them all was journalists. Poor Jim Acosta of CNN would be pegged to cover Trump rallies where the crowd would break into chants of, “CNN sucks.” Reporters at these rallies all thought they were going to be killed. Acosta even got a book out of it: “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.” Yes, a dangerous time to tell the truth about the Steele dossier and the pee-pee tape and Trump having been a Russian agent dating back to the ’80s. So much danger!
(Speaking of Nevada, it was just this week that we learned of an elected official in Las Vegas being arrested in connection with the murder of a journalist. None of the tweets announcing the story happened to mention the elected official was a Democrat.)
So, with an actual murdered journalist on their hands, the Nevada Current’s Dana Resnick Gentry is reporting that Lombardo declined to denounce Trump’s normalization of attacks on reporters.
My post about @JoeLombardoNV declining to denounce Trump’s normalization of attacks on reporters has prompted hundreds of verbal attacks and physical threats. #irony
— Dana Resnick Gentry (@DanaGentryLV) September 10, 2022
You should just apologize. It was an insane thing to say – why double down on an obvious mistake? 🤷♂️
— Anthony Merra (@AnthonyMerra) September 10, 2022
A mistake to ask a sheriff running for governor if he denounces the normalization of violence against journalists? No thanks. I’ll keep asking.
— Dana Resnick Gentry (@DanaGentryLV) September 10, 2022
As a journalist, can you tell us when Trump normalized violence against journalists?
— PolitiChris (@PolitiChris1) September 10, 2022
— GOPPouncer (@Mellecon) September 10, 2022
🤡
— Abnjm (@Abnjm) September 10, 2022
— 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕪 (@AwwSilverback) September 10, 2022
Post them. All I see are comments saying you’re not a journalist.
What threats?
— The Durham Report (@TheDurhamReport) September 10, 2022
Please re-tweet the physical threats … if they exist.
— Two bricks short (@didthat1x) September 10, 2022
Please share screenshots so we have a fuller context.
— Jeff Yule or some derivitive there of (@jeffyule12866) September 10, 2022
Can you post the physical threats? Because the normalization of journalists as political operatives means I do not believe a word you say.
— John (@Opposed_Twin) September 10, 2022
— BarbieF (@Bringbackdisco5) September 10, 2022
Learn to code.
— Beady-Eyed Baldy (@UrDominator) September 10, 2022
— Phil Williams (@raiderphilwill) September 10, 2022
😂 Maybe it’s because Trump had nothing to do with some random other guy stabbing a reporter.
— Sean Sullivan (@IronmanSSX) September 10, 2022
Democrat murders journalist.
TRUMPPPPPPPPP
— havent snorkled in a while (@Glutton4Pnshmnt) September 10, 2022
A Democrat killed a reporter and you’re talking about Trump.
You’re doing great Dana.
— Mimi (@MadMimi3) September 10, 2022
It’s inappropriate and had nothing to do with this reporters death. It was a #democrat killing a reporter for investigation of his incompetence. You, showed your incompetence with that question.
— Charlie (@ctsterling2990) September 10, 2022
It was a stupid question. This had nothing to do with Trump. Unless Trump called the DEMOCRAT and told him to go kill the journalist. Doubt that happened. Your TDS is showing. Try being a journalist instead of a Democrat spokesman.
— BamaNicki (@bamanicky) September 10, 2022
Translation: I posted something embarrassingly partisan and now I’m being teased. #hacktears
— Paul Crowley (@PaulCro19858120) September 10, 2022
Will she write a column detailing all of the threats?
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Related:
Jim Treacher can’t help but notice something missing from MSM headlines about Nevada official suspected of murdering a journalist https://t.co/I7HyTDiEMb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 8, 2022