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The day after an anti-Semite killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a week of political violence, NBC’s Sunday Today exploited the opportunity by trying to tie it all to President Trump. On top of that, the network suggested that the only hope to stop the violence was to send Trump a message at the ballot box by voting against him and the GOP.
After reporting on the anti-Semitic hate crime in Pittsburgh, NBC shifted over to complaining about Trump for not bowing to the man’s hatred. “On Saturday, he continued with his midterm campaign commitments despite that tragedy,” chided anchor Willie Geist, while White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell huffed about how the “President's response to this tragedy has been to speak extensively about all aspects of it while not giving up his midterm fight.”
Following O’Donnell’s report where she knocked Trump supporters for ‘reveling’ in Trump’s “combustible style” and Vice President Mike Pence for refusing “any suggestion the President's rhetoric stoked the incidents of terror seen this week”, Geist brought on Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd to share his “thoughts this morning on where we are in America.”
“Well, look, I mean, I think you can't help but see this. It's hard not to look at it and see that it is connected. We've seen this rise in sort of hot political rhetoric,” Todd said. “[W]e have a problem and we have a president who doesn't seem to believe he has a role to play in dealing with it.” It’s ridiculous that Todd would hit Trump for not believing he had a role to play when the liberal media had refused to acknowledge their role in all of this as well.
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