Pope Leo enters directly into the political dispute over the death penalty in the USA. He is against violence and therefore also against the war in Iran. But he says nothing about the violence exercised by the perpetrators. In the USA, paedophilic rapists are released by liberal judges, after which they commit new serious crimes. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants such a judge to be brought before the courts. In Oslo, Eirik Løkke sits in the studio and says that Trump is quick to condemn the violence that affects himself, but not that which affects others. Is he himself to blame for the attempt on his own life?

We live in a polarised age, and those with media power pour petrol on the fire. Even after a man attempted to kill Trump, Eirik Løkke comes into the studio to take Trump down and explain that he is the most hated president in history. Løkke himself gives several examples of why this is so. Perhaps Trump is to blame for the fact that someone is constantly attempting to kill him. That is how it sounds on NRK and from Løkke.

They do not belie themselves. Hatred of Trump is now the overarching theme in most Western media. One would not think that he is waging war to liberate the Iranian people and save the Jews from annihilation.

Everything is Trump’s fault is the slogan.

But Trump does not yield an inch. Now his administration will carry out death sentences by summary court-martial (standrett) and poison. Then the left goes ballistic, into a spin. Pope Leo is evidently on this passive-aggressive side in his condemnation of all war and the death penalty. Does he not know of all the violence that is allowed to pass in his home state Illinois? How is this condemnation of Trump compatible with being the good shepherd who defends the flock against the predators?

“The right to life is the very foundation of all other human rights,” said Pope Leo on Friday in a video greeting on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in his home state Illinois. “In this context, we affirm that human dignity is not lost even after very serious crimes have been committed.”

The Holy Father has publicly condemned the death penalty for two consecutive days, at the same time as the Trump administration is seeking to escalate and accelerate death penalty cases.

Trump and Pope Leo have been in conflict for several weeks now, and the American pope has also been critical of the president’s Iran war.

Pope Leo appeared to ease tensions with the White House by clarifying that he was opposed to war in general, not only the conflict in Iran, and that his comments about “a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war were not directed at Trump.

Vice President JD Vance, who is Catholic, thanked the Pope for his comments and said that the Trump administration would work to apply the moral principles of the Gospel in this “chaotic world”.

There are cases in the USA that are so outrageous that the death penalty will sooner increase than be abolished.

If Trump is to be held accountable, this must also apply to liberal judges. The Pope is silent. There are many judges like Tiffany Baker in the USA.

🚨 BREAKING: Governor DeSantis is calling for the IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT of Judge Tiffany Baker.

Judge Baker released a child rapist who was a KNOWN danger to society.

While out on bail, the rapist tortured and killed a 5 year old little girl.

Should she be impeached? pic.twitter.com/KGfv9IfffS

— DR POOL (@DRPOOLQ17) April 26, 2026

In the USA there are many judges who are on the side of criminals, not of the people. The European press does not cover this use of the rule of law (rettsstaten) to undermine it from within, but places the blame on Trump when he attempts to restore respect for law and order. Thus the judiciary is also made into an arena of struggle, and the people are left alone against overwhelming power. A great betrayal.

Trump’s fault

According to this logic, Trump is to blame for the attempt on his life.

Eirik Løkke commented on Nyhetsmorgen on Saturday on the assassination attempt in Washington and said Trump was the one who created anger, more than any other president. But why he creates anger, Eirik Løkke says nothing about.

Now the Department of Justice has brought 11 charges against the NGO Southern Poverty Law Center because they have misused the money they received from donors. They believed that SPLC would combat racial hatred and extremism. Instead, they used the money to finance far-right groups such as the KKK. There was not enough racism on the right, so they went so far as to finance it in order to demonstrate their own justification for existence.

The scandal concerning SPLC has been suppressed in Norwegian media. Instead, everything concerns Trump as a person. The Iranians are more sympathetic than Trump. Even when he is at war with a regime that has killed 40,000 of its own, it is Trump who must be exposed.

Is he not legally irresponsible?

Eirik Løkke says that Trump has a selective relationship to violence. He began his second term by pardoning the 1,500 who were convicted for 6 January. He called it the Day of Love, says Løkke. While the Democrats condemn the attempt on his life – Obama is mentioned – Trump is more selective. That the Democrats might have a need to condemn it because the would-be assassin politically stood on their side is not mentioned by Løkke.

Instead, Trump is discredited because his own relationship to violence is also “sick”. He is strongly opposed to political violence against himself, but he has problems condemning political violence in general. That is what Løkke says two days after Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. He omits all statements from Democrats who have called for Trump to be eliminated.

Løkke has presented a series of justifications for why Trump himself is to blame for the fact that someone is attempting to kill him.

NRK has been taken over by a faction that conducts active undermining of the USA’s standing among the Norwegian people. It is black propaganda from beginning to end.

The relationship to violence

What is central here is the progressives’ relationship to violence. Trump represents legitimate violence by virtue of being president by the will of the American people. But that will is not respected by the progressives. Their mandate stands above the people. Therefore Trump’s cause must be delegitimised. After an assassination attempt, sympathy accrues to the victim. But not in the case of Trump.

Løkke is therefore summoned by NRK in order to deprive Trump of sympathy.

He creates more anger than others. He attacks the press. He praised the 6 January demonstrators who “attacked police officers”.

The one who is selective is, of course, NRK and Løkke.

They systematically ignore all information that Obama orchestrated a coup against Trump after he was elected. The Director of National Intelligence has just made public a number of documents that demonstrate this. But Tulsi Gabbard is not a Director whom NRK recognises. They are entirely on the side of the “coup-makers”. For them, Obama is still president.

At the same time, they speak of Trump not wishing to step down. It is they who still consider Obama to be the rightful president. Therefore all information about what Obama did at the end of his term is ignored.

Projection

Instead, they project all their own attitudes onto Trump and attribute to him their own positions. This creates an entirely surreal universe, and after ten years it has had its effect on the population. Facts mean nothing. Everything that comes from the USA passes through a filter.

That the Pope also accepts this representation says something about the power it has. A person who is subjected to violence knows well what is happening, but the progressives ignore the most obvious connections.

They are to justify mass immigration, in which Catholic NGOs have also participated.

And then they claim that it is Trump who polarises.