Presidential historian and Monday CNN NewsNight panelist Tim Naftali suggested in the aftermath of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump that Trump made himself a bigger target by “using the rhetoric of the 30s.” Fortunately, New York Post reporter Lydia Moynihan and CNN commentator Scott Jennings were also there to recall the violent rhetoric and “bunch of lies” directed towards Trump over the past several years.
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Moynihan then recalled how, “none of this is new. And I do think there is a level of tolerance when it comes to violent speech about Trump since 2016. We had Kathy Griffin showing basically his head severed. There were people putting on Shakespeare in the Park plays where that they him as Julius Caesar.”
Amid crosstalk from the panel’s liberal members, Moynihan continued, “I think there's a level of violent rhetoric that has been directed at him, but that's happened for ten years.”
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