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In an appearance on NBC’s Sunday Today, political director Chuck Todd made the allegation that President Trump seemed as though he was “rooting” for the violence tearing apart the country. But what went unmentioned was the fact he was making the very same argument that Democratic nominee Joe Biden had made just three days earlier. Unbeknownst to Todd, he essentially echoed Biden’s deputy campaign manager, who appeared on Fox News Sunday claiming Trump was “incit[ing] violence.”
Host Willie Geist teed up Todd to make his unfounded claim by huffing about how they had to cover the violence at all:
WILLIE GEIST: With people now literally dying in the streets, you hate to jump to the politics of this. But President Trump has made it a centerpiece of his re-election campaign, what we are seeing in the streets, the protests in the streets. He talked about it at length during his nomination speech Thursday night. And you'll be looking at it today, I know, on Meet the Press.
As we make the turn to the fall, what does this law and order, as the President, describes it, how does this play into the campaign?
“Well, obviously he wants to make it the diversion from focus on the virus. He wants this focus on the inner cities. He believes it's a way for him to have a political comeback here,” Todd began. “But I'll tell you, I think there is a ton of risk for the President politically.”
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