'You Just Saw It': ABC Host Calls Out Mike Johnson For Playing Dumb About Video He Just Saw
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING House Speaker Mike Johnson played dumb when asked about Eric Trump’s suggestion that Democrats were to blame for an assassination attempt on his father at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “I didn’t hear all the comments, I don’t know the context,” said Johnson, who told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos that he “just saw the clip” of the former president’s son when it aired on the program. I think what they’re alluding to is what we’ve all been saying: they have got to turn the rhetoric down.” Trump — who along with his brother Donald Trump Jr. has blamed Democrats for being behind the attempted assassination of their father, former President Donald Trump, this summer — returned to the site of the rally over the weekend where he again tied the party to the shooting that killed one attendee. Johnson, who has endorsed Donald Trump despite his deadly coup attempt in 2021, latched on to a claim that Democrats have “incited” people through their rhetoric while dismissing talk of Trump being a “threat to democracy.” Stephanopoulos wasn’t having it and read Eric Trump’s remarks verbatim.
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