Salena Zito suggests recent attacks are ‘unhinged from reality,’ not political

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Washington Examiner senior columnist Salena Zito blamed violent actors’ “mental break” for recent attacks against politicians.

Four days have passed since Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot. It’s been over two months since Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) Mansion in Harrisburg suffered fire damage and broken windows when an arsonist set fire to the residence in the middle of the night. Zito dismissed politics as motive enough for these separate suspects while on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom on Tuesday.

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