Indeed it could.

Black perp, white victim is, of course, the norm for interracial crime, but you’ll never, ever see it in the media.  This scumbag, though, shot a white girl on live television.  Then Tweeted about it.

That’s pretty hard to ignore (though our totally nonpartisan, completely nonbiased media will give it the ol’ college try — cue a zillion “gun control” stories).

If I were Trump, I’d get this — quietly, untraceably — to every friendly media operation I could.  I’d do my level best to make a martyr out of the girl.  Then, about a week from now, I’d fold the whole thing into a comprehensive “Law and Order” speech with the illegals.

[I’d also let it be known, nudge-nudge wink-wink, that while of course he deplores any kind of retaliation, the kinds of folks who tweet things like “two white people got killed…The world is becoming a better place” kinda sorta deserve it, and such actions — though they would surely be punished! — wouldn’t be punished too severely in his administration].

I think it’s starting, y’all.  Everyone could play this as a creepy weirdo loner snapping — which is 99.9% likely what it actually is — but it could easily go another way entirely.  Watch to see how much coverage this gets, and from where.

UPDATE: Just as I’m hitting publish on this, I see this at Ace of Spades.

One of my main contentions in these Trump posts is that the average American hates the media even more than they hate politicians.  Media people don’t recognize this, because they’re the dumbest critters in captivity… though to be fair, they’re not really looking at the commentary on their coverage; they’re only seeing ratings and clicks go up up up.

A large part of Trump’s appeal is that he tells it “like it is” (feel free to add as many asterisks as you think that needs)… as opposed to The Establishment, who tell nothing but ridiculous lies.

An even larger part of Trump’s appeal, though, is that he tells it “like it is” (ditto) to the media — who tell enough ridiculous, egregious, parsecs-wide whoppers every day to make the GOP look like paragons of honesty.  There is enormous power in being the first to articulate what everyone knows.  And everyone knows that:

• illegals are destroying our economy
• The Establishment profits from that
• The media and The Establishment are the same thing
• Both political parties look on average Americans with withering contempt
• and that goes 100x for the media
• who don’t even bother hiding it, because they think we’re too stupid to spot The Narrative.

If I were Trump, not only would I publicize this incident far and wide, I’d start screaming about gross media malfeasance, along the lines Ace writes in his piece.  “Why are you fanning the flames of race hate, media”?

At this point, I’m really starting to think he could win the White House in a landslide with just a few simple moves.