Hours after former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided a second assassination attempt, NBC News’ Lester Holt fanned the flames of violence by blaming Trump’s “rhetoric” rather than the suspected would-be assassin, who once praised Holt.
United States Secret Service agents fired shots at a man on Sunday after they discovered him allegedly staked out in a bush at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach armed with a scoped “AK-47-style rifle.” A suspect was later apprehended by authorities and remains in custody.
This was the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life.
Within days of Trump surviving the first assassination attempt in July that left a father of two dead, Democrats and the media implored the nation to “lower the temperature” (while ignoring their own role in “stoking the flames of hatred against Trump and his supporters,” as my colleague Jordan Boyd points out). It was a short-lived plea, because the left returned to their assassination prep campaign playbook almost immediately, calling Trump the next Hitler, a “threat to democracy” and an “existential danger” to the country.
Keeping in line with his fellow propagandists, Holt took to the air on Sunday to blame Trump for the attempted assassination by linking him to unsubstantiated bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio.
“Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself,” Holt said. “Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in [Springfield] Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb
