Tonight we heard, from NBC’s Lester Holt, the kind of papering over of a shocking act normally reserved for the initial outset of an Islamist terror attack: a declaration of ignorance over the motive that could’ve possibly possessed the individual to do such a thing, to wit: attempt to murder former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Watch as Holt lets that fly while speaking to a rally attendant:
NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
7/13/24
8:02 PM
LESTER HOLT: But you bring up a point. I think we all will be talking about it and that is, of course, that we don’t know what the motivation was for this, but it certainly comes at a time that we are all keenly aware of the deep divisions and the risk of political violence. Is it something you even thought about as you set out to attend this rally tonight?
It is true that there isn’t a…
