Charlamagne tha God Accuses Congressmen of Using Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Score Points’ Against Other Party: ‘It’s Disingenuous’
Charlamagne the God singled out a pair of congressmen that he believes are using the attempted assassination of Donald Trump for political gain.
Trump’s Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, came to a dramatic end when shots rang out and the former president was rushed off stage. The shooter — later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks — killed one rally attendee and struck two others. Trump was also grazed in the ear and received medical attention after being evacuated.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance blamed it on President Joe Biden’s campaign that “Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.” He claimed the attempted assassination was a direct result of that rhetoric.
Speak of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said his colleagues need to “turn the rhetoric down” and “turn the temperature down” in response to the shooting.
On Monday’s episode of The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne took issue with both comments because they fail to acknowledge Trump’s own history of inflammatory remarks.
“For [Johnson] and J.D Vance to make comments like that and not acknowledge the countless times Donald Trump has said things that have led to violence or could lead to violence, it’s disingenuous,” he said, “and 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.
“Real leaders would be using this as an opportunity to actually bring people together. Instead, you both are causing more division. You are causing more people, in this case Democrats, to be targets. Once again, you cannot make any statements about dangerous rhetoric that leads to political violence and division without acknowledging the words that have come from Donald Trump’s mouth and his social media.”
