Times
Journo Calls for Assassination of President Trump
29
January, 2017
Times
columnist and author India Knight has called for the assassination of
U.S. President, Donald J. Trump.
During
a days-long invective against the newly inaugurated President, on
Twitter in which Knight called Mr Trump a “moron”, “mad”,
“needy”, and an “arse”, among other things, before telling
him to “shut up”, she mused “the assassination is taking such a
long time.”
The assassination is taking such a long time.
Knight’s
attitude is directly in-line with the British media class, many of
whom she has cheered on via Twitter over the last few days.
Watching
the joint press conference held by Mr Trump and the British Prime
Minister Theresa May, in which they heralded a rebooting of the
Special Relationship between their two countries, Knight retweeted a
post by Buzzfeed political editor Jim Waterstone which implied that
the American Secret Service were so incompetent that they couldn’t
understand the British conventional way of rendering dates into
numerical format (day-month-year).
British press corp is locked outside the White House because our birthdates were submitted in UK format and secret service don't get it. 
Another
from fellow Times journalist Hugo Rifkind highlighted that the
British press had use the question and answer session to call Trump a
racist and a liar.
Knight
herself also cheered on the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, who used her
question during the Q&A to attack Mr Trump in such a manner that
he was moved to respond, “That was your question? There goes that
relationship!”
Knight
tweeted “Go @bbclaurak! [Kuenssberg]” followed by “I love the
British press”.
Go @bbclaurak!
She
later re-tweeted posts from British journalists celebrating forcing
the Prime Minister to respond to demands from the British press pack
to condemn the President’s decision to pause immigration from some
Muslim-majority countries.
But
Knight’s opposition to Mr Trump – and in particular her call for
his assassination – has not gone down well with fellow Twitter
users.
Members
of the public tweeted back to call her a “horrible person” and a
“psychopath” for wishing death on anyone, while one person mused
that she was typical of so-called “tolerant” liberals.
@HeimishCon @indiaknight if the only way to get your way, involves murder, you might be a psychopath
Aidan
Mark
Others
noted that they had reported her Tweet to the authorities and to
Twitter. A number of people have been jailed in the past for tweeting
abusive messages; most notably studentLiam Stacey who in 2012 was
jailed for 56 days for tweeting racist comments while drunk – a
sentence which the judge said must be imposed due to the level of
“public outrage”.
Knight’s
comment comes days after a German newspaper editor suggested on
television that “murder in the White House” could be a way to end
the “Trump catastrophe”.
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