Donald Trump was shot in the ear on Saturday night, and the networks tried to be calm. But the opening was messy. The first bumbled headline at CNN.com was “Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls at Rally.” Other headlines didn’t say “shot,” just that Trump was rushed off stage after “popping noises.”
NBC anchor Lester Holt strangely insisted no one knew the shooter’s motive. But wait — we do know the shooter wanted to kill Trump.
But a spin did emerge. They insisted Republicans can’t blame Democrats for inspiring violence based on all their talk of Trump being Hitler, Stalin, Mao, the Covid killer, or any of that rhetoric.
Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan was anchoring for CBS and she was angry at Republicans for blaming Biden for his tone before the shooting. She lectured about anyone “drawing some connection to…
