Legacy media appear to blame Trump for second assassination attempt

Published September 16, 2024 1:28pm ET



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.”

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