Jake Tapper: The Trump Administration Only Talks About Left-Wing Violence; They Do Not Talk About Right-Wing Violence
CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday said President Donald Trump only addresses left-wing violence in an interview with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).
TAPPER: So after the attempted assassination on then-candidate Trump last year in Butler, Pennsylvania, you called for the temperature to come down, for the political violence to stop. This incident against you and your family was in April. And since then, we’ve seen assassinations of Democratic politicians in Minnesota. We’ve seen the assassination of conservative — conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. And just from where I’m sitting as a journalist, I see a lot of political violence all over the map, left-wing against right-wing, right-wing against left-wing, people targeted for their faith, people targeted for their ideology. Sometimes the perpetrators, you cant even really discern if they are on the political map as much as just nihilistic. And — and yet, I have to say, the Trump administration only talks about left-wing violence. They do not talk about right-wing violence. I don’t even know whether the guy that went after you is left-wing or right-wing, because the antisemitism is so prevalent on both sides right now. But talk a little bit, if you would, about that, because we hear President Trump faulting the left for political violence, and yet you and your family are victims of it as well.
