Charlamagne tha God Hammers Trump After Shooting: ‘Solely Responsible’ For Violent Rhetoric in US
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The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne tha God claimed former President Donald Trump is “solely responsible” for the violent rhetoric that led to an assassination attempt over the weekend.
Charlamagne called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for partially blaming the rhetoric of Trump’s critics for the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
“Mike Johnson and J.D. Vance, please don’t act like Donald Trump is not solely responsible for creating this environment of political violence that he’s not even safe from,” Charlamagne said on Monday.
The radio host continued by calling the shooting a “teachable moment” for the country.
“What happened on Saturday was very real and it should be a teachable moment for us all. Because this is what happens when you have people in positions of power spreading the kind of dangerous rhetoric that Donald Trump has been spreading since 2016,” he said.
Charlamagne argued the shooting should be condemned, but Trump’s political rhetoric should be part of that conversation.
“We are all adults in this country, okay, big boys, big girls. We can condemn political violence and what happened to Trump on Saturday night and also talk about the dangerous rhetoric that Donald Trump has spewed that got us here,” he said.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vance blamed Trump critics painting him as “an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs” for the shooting.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” he wrote. “That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Today is not just some isolated incident.
The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 14, 2024
“When the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the republic would end, I mean it heats up the environment,” Johnson said meanwhile on NBC on Sunday.
Charlamagne on Monday also accused the Republicans of playing “campaign games” with their Trump shooting responses.
“It’s them playing campaign games. It’s them politicizing this situation because, of course, it is a presidential election year. They, like many politicians — Republicans and Democrats — are using this as an opportunity to score points on the opposition,” he said.
