Democrats and media pundits have linked former President Trump’s rhetoric to the second assassination attempt against him in the last few months and have called on Trump to lower the temperature.
“This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party,” Rep. Mickie Sherrill, D-N.J., told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Monday, accusing the GOP of attempting to “divide” and “enrage the population” through “false rumors and misinformation.”
The former president has blamed the assassination attempt on rhetoric coming from Democrats, specifically President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
CNN commentator Ana Navarro on Tuesday argued that Trump did not “get to be a very big part of the problem and then pretend that it’s just the other people on the other side who caused this.”
“Quit blaming folks until you decide to take a look at what’s coming out of your mouth,” “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said on Tuesday. She also argued that only Republicans were contributing to violent rhetoric.
“Let’s stop this both sides stuff because it’s not correct. It is not both sides. It is one clear side, and you can point to many, many reports, you can point to all kinds of stuff that’s been reported, you guys have to, you have to pull it back. This is not us or them. This is you got to stop doing what you’re doing, JD, and what you’re doing Mr. T [Trump], because you are not helping the situation,” Goldberg added.
The New York Times’ Zolan Kanno-Youngs joined CNN’s Dana Bash on Tuesday and said, “you have a former president who, yes, has been the target of apparent assassinations twice, but is also an instigator of political violence.”
NBC News’ Lester Holt, just hours after the assassination attempt, said the attempt on Trump’s life followed “fierce rhetoric” from the former president and his running mate, JD Vance.
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