Multiple media outlets featured guests discussing the most recent attempt on former President Donald Trump‘s life, many of whom seemed to blame the former president for the political climate and the latest assassination attempt.
The second assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday comes two months after he narrowly survived gunfire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Both attempts have occurred as he runs for president again. In the wake of the latest attempt on Trump’s life, MSNBC’s Alex Witt predicted there would be a “political fallout” from this, prompting MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan to suggest that Republicans and Democrats ought to ask what they can do “to take the temperature down.”
“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?” Witt asked.
Jordan said she would love to see a unity moment between the two parties but that such a moment would likely be “fleeting.”
Witt’s questioning about the Trump campaign asking to tone down “the violence” comes after her network, MSNBC, platformed speakers, such as Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) in July, who have claimed Trump is an “existential threat to democracy.” Just before the second assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday, MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki featured Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who argued domestic terrorism in the country is real and that Trump is “the guy that stokes it.”
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.@JasmineforUS: “The problem isn’t the people coming in. The problem is this guy and his people here that are doing the bomb threats throughout the country. Domestic terrorism is a real thing, and he is the guy that stokes it.” pic.twitter.com/lNvNyqnxH2 — Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) September 15, 2024
NBC, meanwhile, featured anchor Lester Holt discussing the assassination attempt, saying it comes amid “increasingly fierce rhetoric” on the 2024 campaign trail. Holt argued that Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the former president’s running mate, are making “baseless claims about Haitian immigrants” in Springfield, Ohio, where there were bomb threats over the weekend.
NBC’s Lester Holt: