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Actor Johnny Depp introduces his film The Libertine at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England, on Thursday.

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Voices in conservative media continued to criticize left-wing political rhetoric on Friday. The Federalists Mary Katherine Ham wrote that the events of the past week and the responses to them in the media and the Democratic Party showed that many on the Left and in elite institutions dont want to understand the other half of the country:

On Fox and Friends, Fox host Jeanine Pirro said that the Democratic Party had become a party of hate and destruction. I think its anti-American, she said. I really do. Im sorry. When you talk about, you know, killing the president, doing the stuff theyve been doing, its disgusting.

During the day, audio circulated of Nebraska Democratic Party official Phil Montag saying that he wished that Steve Scalise, who was seriously wounded in the June 14 congressional baseball shooting, was dead. This motherfucker, like his whole job is like to get people, convince Republicans to fucking to kick people off fucking health care, he said. I hate this motherfucker. Im fucking glad he got shot. Montag was fired on Thursday. [Nebraska Democratic Party chairwoman Jane] Kleeb deserves to be recommended for her clear stance against violence in political rhetoric, PJ Medias Tyler ONeil wrote. Both the Left and the Right should denounce it. In the Washington Examiner, Becket Adams criticized Kleeb for saying that rhetoric on both sides of the aisle needed to be toned down. After a politically-motivated assassination attempt carried out by an alleged left-wing fanatic, and after her own people have been caught celebrating and snickering over the near-massacre, Kleeb has the gall to pull the both sides card, he said. We're not sure what's going on in Nebraska, but it sounds like the states Democratic Party is in desperate need of a leadership overhaul.

Montags comments drew attention on Twitter.

So too did a joke Johnny Depp made Thursday night at the British music festival Glastonbury about assassinating Trump. Im not insinuating anythingby the way, this will be in the press and it will be horriblebut when was the last time an actor assassinated a president, he asked. I want to clarify, I am not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it has been a while, and maybe it is time. He later apologized.

The White House released a statement asking Depps colleagues to speak out against violent rhetoric. Those Hollywood elitists wont speak about it, of course, the Daily Wires Amanda Prestigiacomo wrote. Depp is a leftist and apparently advocating something with which they agree.

Multiple outlets applauded the news that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is the subject of a new probe by the Senate Judiciary Committee over her involvement in the Clinton email investigation. RedStates Susan Wright called the move well overdue:

Other conservatives rejoiced on Twitter:

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