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MSNBC Anchor Wonders If There’ll Be ‘Calls From Within’ Trump Camp to ‘Tone Down’ His Rhetoric After Second Assassination Attempt
Media-ite ^ | September 15, 2024 | Kipp Jones

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: alexwitt; arrestalexwitt; arrestandexecute; arrestnbctraitors; assassinationattempt; incitingsedition; msnbcwantstrumpdead; nbcsedition; wittwantstrumpdead
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To: Red Badger

Why? For speaking the truth? Trump’s the only one doing so.


21 posted on 09/15/2024 6:16:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

MSM: Quit trying to make us kill you!...............


22 posted on 09/15/2024 6:17:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

MSNBC Anchor Wonders If There’ll Be Calls for Women to Dress More Modest After They Are Raped.

This blaming the victim nonsense has to stop.


23 posted on 09/15/2024 6:18:59 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Red Badger

Alex Witt is a Trump assassination supporter.


24 posted on 09/15/2024 6:20:02 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger

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.


25 posted on 09/15/2024 6:21:45 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Red Badger
MSM: Quit trying to make us kill you!...............

Wow, wouldn't that be cool to watch a Heavenly fire take out these evildoers lock stock and barrel?

26 posted on 09/15/2024 6:23:23 PM PDT by EinNYC
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistani-iran-murder-plot-u-s-officials/

Arrest in plot to murder Trump


27 posted on 09/15/2024 6:26:27 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

Alex Whit is a pathetic fuck-head.


28 posted on 09/15/2024 6:27:06 PM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess. MSNBC thinks talking about inflation, the border or crime is “rhetoric.”


29 posted on 09/15/2024 6:30:43 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Red Badger

The liberal definition of the word rhetoric is stuff we don’t like you saying.


30 posted on 09/15/2024 6:31:34 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: All

MSNBC is a communist organization.


31 posted on 09/15/2024 6:31:38 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Dawgreg

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.


32 posted on 09/15/2024 6:33:00 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie ( )
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To: Red Badger
"They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they're not after me they're after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way."
33 posted on 09/15/2024 6:35:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: Red Badger

lol — how often have we heard that...


34 posted on 09/15/2024 6:36:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Red Badger

Trump has to tone down HIS rhetoric?!?!? Unbelievable.


35 posted on 09/15/2024 6:38:16 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Red Badger

Alex Whittless is braindead


36 posted on 09/15/2024 6:38:18 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Red Badger

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.


37 posted on 09/15/2024 6:40:35 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Red Badger

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.


38 posted on 09/15/2024 6:42:10 PM PDT by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: Red Badger

If anyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, it’s democrats. Such projection is appalling.


39 posted on 09/15/2024 6:42:24 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger

It’s like a rapist berating his rape victim for saying he’s a bad man.


40 posted on 09/15/2024 6:44:31 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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