ABC News host George Stephanopoulos claims Donald Trump spread the “violent rhetoric” that led to his assassination attempt.
During Sunday’s episode of This Week, Stephanopoulos and international affairs host Martha Raddatz discussed the current political climate.
The 78-year-old former president survived the attempt on his life when the bullet narrowly missed him during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Raddatz addressed conspiracy theories that President Joe Biden was the cause of the horrific attack and pointed to a tweet from Trump’s vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance in which he claimed Biden’s rhetoric led to the attack.
“Of course, President Trump and his supporters also contributed to this violent rhetoric,” Stephanopoulos said, blaming Trump.
During Sunday’s episode of ABC’s This Week, Stephanopoulos (left) blamed Trump’s own “violent rhetoric” for the attempt on his life
The former president, 78, survived the attempt on his life when the bullet missed him by less than an inch on Saturday afternoon
“Absolutely, George,” Raddatz agreed.
She then gave examples of Trump referring to bloodshed in response to the allegations against him.
“We were just going back this morning to some of the things that President Trump has said. He warned in March of last year that he would face death and destruction if he were to be indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney,” Raddatz said.
‘Trump warned in January of chaos in the country if the criminal charges against him were successful, and of course he said in March, “If I don’t get elected now… it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”‘
Stephanopoulos clashed with the network after criticizing Biden’s performance in his post-debate interview.
Stephanopoulos got into trouble with the network after criticizing Biden’s performance in his post-debate interview
Stephanopoulos said he doesn’t think Biden can serve another four years after giving the president a post-debate interview
The host Biden was asked on a street in Manhattan whether he should resign and replied, “I don’t think he can serve another four years.”
The video quickly took hold on the Internet and prompted the longtime ABC News host to express regret.
“Today I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have done that,” he told Puck News in response to the video, which was originally posted on TMZ.
ABC News released its own statement about what Stephanopoulos had said.
“George was stating his own position and not the position of ABC News.”
