NewsNation host Chris Cuomo said Tuesday that the “left” is downplaying President-elect Trump's assassination attempt in hopes of using it as a reason for Vice President Harris' November defeat. .
“What I found absolutely appalling and outrageous was how unimpressed the left was that Trump was shot in the head,” Cuomo said in a video posted to his YouTube channel. he said.
The journalist said the group trivialized the July assassination attempt by claiming that the former president was “scratched in the ear” instead of being shot in the head.
“They say if you get a bullet wound in your ear, it's no big deal. I'm fine. I'm fine. No, no, that's crazy,” he told viewers.
President Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt in September. Mr. Cuomo had previously criticized the media's response to the incident at a golf course in Florida.
Cuomo said Tuesday that Democrats' response to the July incident on the campaign trail showed how out of touch Harris and her supporters are with the American people.
“If that had happened to Harris, you would have been talking about it non-stop for three days, about how we're in helter skelter mode or whatever it is. And yet it's the election that we lost.” “If I tell you that's why, you call me a bigot,” he explained.
Shortly after the assassination attempt on President Trump, Harris and President Biden issued statements condemning political violence. Still, Cuomo said it was ineffective.
“That's exactly why you lost the election. You're out of touch. You've lost the plot of how the majority of people feel. That's what you did.” he said.
“And that was a perfect example of that. That situation? Well, I guess it was just a teleprompter. I never would have evaluated it that way if I didn't wish that guy was dead.”
NewsNation is owned by Nexstar, which also owns The Hill.
