On Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, CNN host Kasie Hunt had to calm her panel down after a conservative guest tried to blame President Joe Biden for the shooting.
A very emotional Bryan Lanza, an advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, was deploring the state of affairs that he believes led to the shooting, when he started to suggest Democrats are to blame for increased tensions.
"Listen, it's it's all sides. I mean, just a couple of days ago, we heard President Biden in a conference call with his donors saying we need to put a target on president Trump, or that he was going to put the target and president Trump," Lanza stated. "Listen, Sarah Palin was wrong when Gabby Giffords was an assassination attempt on her by putting the target of her and a bunch of other Democrats on the list and that sort of triggered somebody. President Biden was wrong talking about that language. The Washington Post is wrong, we're all guilty of this language. I'm guilty of that myself. I'm ashamed of it. You know, I'm shaking, I had to explain to my six-year-old son what an assassination attempt is."
"I had to explain that there are some people who use language and there are some people who are triggered whether it's the far-right or the progressive left that think the violence is the answer to where we are at this particular state," he continued. "Violence isn't the answer. I mean, I come from a rough neighborhood, violence only escalates. Like we need an off-ramp for this hopefully last night was the off-ramp. So we'll see what the convention brings up, but I think you're going to see a very, very defiant convention."
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"The guy, [Trump] was just, you know, he's been targeted," he added. "We've been talking about this, the leftists fantasizing assassinations. You've got a major donor from the Democratic Party, if not the largest donor Democratic Party saying, he proudly be a martyr taking out Donald Trump."
That led former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Karen Finney to interrupt with, "Let's be sure we be very fair about that."
"The language was very very — listen, there was an assassination attempt," Lanza shot back.
At that point, CNN host Kasie Hunt put up her hands and cautioned, " I would like to keep this as non-partisan as possible, okay? So we are going to stay in the realm of deploring the violence as you have."
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