Posted on 09/15/2024 6:01:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned Sunday whether former President Donald Trump and his campaign needed to tone down their rhetoric after the 2024 GOP nominee faced an apparent would-be assassin for the second time in three months.
Trump was playing a round and had reportedly just finished the fifth hole at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach when shots were fired, which were later confirmed to be from the scene where Secret Service agents engaged what the FBI is investigating as an assassination attempt on Trump.
At the time of the MSNBC discussion on Sunday’s Alex Witt Reports, the details were still not fully known and there was question whether Trump had been a target in the incident. Nevertheless, the conversation quickly went to the question of whether Trump’s rhetoric may have played a hand.
Witt asked MSNBC analyst and former Bush administration official Elise Jordan about the political implications ahead, to which Jordan replied that “heated rhetoric” has led to violence “on both sides of the aisle.”
“I think it’s just something that Democrats and Republicans have to be very cognizant about: What can we all do to take the temperature down?”
Witt focused on the idea that it is Trump’s rhetoric is what needs to be cooled, doubtfully asking whether he’d attempt to, or face calls from within to tone down his rhetoric.
Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because he’s gonna reach out to his supporters and say let’s take this down. We do not know the source of any gunshots or gunshots. We do not know who is responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100 percent confirmed from start to finish, how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of the former president?
Jordan replied that the July attempt on Trump’s life briefly cooled the temperature of the country. She said:
Remember back to the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life, where there was talk of a new tone and the Republican convention was, by Trumpian standards, muted. It did seem like he was trying to take it down a few notches, then by the end of the convention speech, we were kind of back to where we started. So I don’t know how long this moment of unity for the country where we come together and we say I don’t want any political opposition to be under threat of violence.
Jordan predicted any unity after Sunday’s incident might ultimately prove “fleeting.”
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
Why? For speaking the truth? Trump’s the only one doing so.
MSM: Quit trying to make us kill you!...............
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This blaming the victim nonsense has to stop.
Alex Witt is a Trump assassination supporter.
Unbelievable! He’s getting shot at and these evil morons blame him.
How about the fact that they demonize him 24/7??
They call him Hitler, Nazi, Racist, destroyer of democracy, dictator, crazy, liar and on and on. That type of talk could easily motivate one of their violent lunatics to do what they’re doing.
Wow, wouldn't that be cool to watch a Heavenly fire take out these evildoers lock stock and barrel?
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Arrest in plot to murder Trump
Alex Whit is a pathetic fuck-head.
Let me guess. MSNBC thinks talking about inflation, the border or crime is “rhetoric.”
The liberal definition of the word rhetoric is stuff we don’t like you saying.
MSNBC is a communist organization.
AMEN!
The media has convinced some voters, that he is what they report. He is a good man.. A giving person..
Such as, paying off a man’s house mortgage .. A man he met and a chance for Trump to help someone.. There are many instances where he gives.. And you font hear him telling the good he does.
If that woman wins, you all will be living in a country you wont recognize.
lol — how often have we heard that...
Trump has to tone down HIS rhetoric?!?!? Unbelievable.
Alex Whittless is braindead
When the left tells us to “tone” down the rhetoric that means they want our side to stop telling the truth about the destruction they’re doing to this country.
Babylon Bee is right, it now turns out that the blame for the assassination attempts against the former president is only his.
Let’s see what else MSNBC comes up with.
If anyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, it’s democrats. Such projection is appalling.
It’s like a rapist berating his rape victim for saying he’s a bad man.
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