GOP Rep. & MSNBC: ‘Trump Partially To Blame’ For Shooting
MSNBC hosts blame ‘heated rhetoric, fake news and conspiracies’
Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
June 15, 2017
A Republican Congressman appeared on MSNBC Thursday morning and claimed that the President is ‘partially to blame’ for yesterday’s shooting attack on a congressional baseball practice.
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who is a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, told the hosts of Morning Joe “I would argue the president has unleashed, partially, again not in anyway totally, but partially to blame for the demons that have been unleashed.”
Sanford then attempted to blame the shooting, enacted by an unhinged Bernie Sanders supporter, on Trump’s presidential campaign.
“The fact you have the top guy saying, I wish I can hit you in the face — why don’t you, and I’ll pay your legal fees…. That’s bizarre — we ought to call it as such,” Sanford said, referencing a tongue in cheek comment made by Trump during a campaign stop last year.
Sanford then complained that Americans at town hall meetings are acting “weird and different,” hurling abuse at each other because of Trump’s behavior.
“What I’ve said back home, some of these people have been frankly weird and different in a town hall meeting. I say what is going on. They’ll say look, if the guy at the top can say anything to anybody at any time, why can’t I?” The Congressman claimed.
“I was at a town hall meeting — it was at a senior center, at a retirement center — and what took place in terms of what people were saying to each other was like out of a movie, and so we’ve got to find a way to dial this back,” Sanford said.
Sanford then attempted to steer the conversation toward restricting free speech.
“I think we all need to look for ways to learn from what happened yesterday and to say, wait a minute, this is a pause moment. What might I do a little differently in the way I reached out to other members.” he said.
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