House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) rebuked the White House’s dismissal of Democrats referring to former President Donald Trump as a “threat” to the country, calling it “absurd” for the Biden administration to sidestep responsibility.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back against claims that President Joe Biden and other Democrats have been stoking political violence with repeated claims that Trump is a danger to democracy. The response was made two days after the former president survived a second assassination attempt in roughly two months.

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