MSNBC host Joe Scarborough raged at NBC News’ Lester Holt Tuesday for questioning President Joe Biden about his “bullseye” remark.
Biden called on former President Donald Trump to be put in the “bullseye” during a phone call that occurred one week before the attempted assassination on the former president at a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania. The president told Holt that using the word “bullseye” was a “mistake,” but that it referred to focusing on him.
Scarborough criticized Holt for asking the question “without any context” during his one-on-one interview with the president.
“But to ask that question without any context abut the politically violent rhetoric that Republicans have been engaged in for close to a decade now,” Scarborough said. “We could talk about Nancy Pelosi, we could talk about the assassinations of chairmans, joint chiefs, the hangings of Mike Pence, we could go on and on and on. And we could talk about it on both sides. Again, it’s a good question to ask about what he said in a private fundraiser. A good question to ask, I would’ve asked the same question. But to ask that question absent of any context seems to me to be you talk about a phony…moral relativism. It was just screaming throughout that part of the interview. I must say, I was shocked.”
‘A Phony …’: Scarborough Goes After Lester Holt For Biden Question About Trump ‘Bullseye’ Remark pic.twitter.com/JtcEStxq8C
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Reverend Al Sharpton denied that Biden has engaged in rhetoric that would lead to violence, and argued both sides must be against all political violence. (RELATED: Scarborough Noticeably Absent As Wife Spends 15 Straight Minutes Slobbering Over The Other Joe)
“Right, you speak out against politically violent rhetoric on both sides. You speak out against violence obviously on all sides and again, that’s why I say, it was an important question to ask even though he said it in a private fundraiser as opposed to standing before a crowd of Republicans and mocking Nancy Pelosi’s husband who was brutalized and almost killed,” Scarborough continued.
An assailant named David DePape broke into the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and beat her husband, Paul, with a hammer in October 2022. DePape told authorities he entered the home in an attempt to kidnap Nancy and force her to reveal what he believed to be a massive network of government conspiracy.
A gunman identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire into the Trump rally from the rooftop of a nearby building Saturday. The incident wounded Trump in the ear and killed a father of two, while a Secret Service sniper took down the gunman.
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