The foiled second assassination attempt on Donald Trump wasn’t uniformly treated as a serious security problem. We found major networks blaming Trump’s hot talk on migrants and pets for his own assassins. They blamed him for not toning rhetoric down — the flagrantly hostile networks!
Curtis Houck explains how Sunday unfolded. NBC’s Lester Holt made a rare Sunday appearance: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town.”
On ABC, Sunday anchor (and Kamala debate coddler) Linsey Davis opened the show with the Trump news, followed with this: “Springfield, Ohio on edge. Local schools are being threatened with violence and a college shuts…
