Though not as bombastic as ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today still made their point Friday about how they viewed President Trump’s Thursday speech at the Republican National Convention, crediting him for his vivid retelling of Saturday’s assassination attempt and the tribute to the late Corey Comperatore, then knocking him for “riffing” and “repeating…grievances, conspiracies, and insults”.
Co-host Savannah Guthrie said in a tease that Trump gave an “emotional description of that attempted assassination” before throwing “fiery red meat” to “the party faithful” then later offered the same notes in tossing to senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson.
“[I]n many ways, it was also a tale of two speeches with the former President returning to the controversial rhetoric more familiar to his campaign remarks, even…
