In a tense interview with CNN on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. blamed the recent assassination attempt on his father, former President Trump, in part on the media for spreading a false story that radicalized his critics. He said there is.
In the Spin Room after the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate, Trump Jr. agreed with CNN's Caitlan Collins that the event was “civil,” and spoke with Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of , who also noted that he agreed. The CNN host then asked, “Should we see more of that on the debate stage with dads?”
Trump Jr. said, “You know what? I want to see that across the board.” “We've all heard about Trump Derangement Syndrome and seen what lies they've told…'I was a Russian operative, but Hunter Biden's laptop was completely destroyed. It was Russian disinformation.’ As it turned out, the opposite was true.”
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CBS News Donald Trump Jr. and CNN's Caitlan Collins after the Vice Presidential Debate.
“The media did that and created that environment in a big way. They radicalized the people who were going to kill my father. I've had to deal with that twice in the last two months. “I didn't,” he continued. “In the last two months, I've had to talk to five young children about someone trying to shoot their grandfather.”
Trump Jr. then said, “It didn't magically happen,” and accused the media of creating a “fake Russia scenario” to discredit his father.
“They held on to that idea for years, and even though it was disproved, they still kept going. You know, that environment wasn't just created by Donald Trump,” Trump Jr. said. spoke.
Collins countered: “Everyone wants him to be safe. No one wants threats against their life to happen, but you can't blame the media for those threats. There's no evidence.”
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Former President Trump was injured in an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The former president's son disagreed.
“When you allow someone to have a platform where you call someone 'literal Hitler' every day for nine years, that's what you create. Whether you want to believe it or not, that's a fact,” Trump Jr. said. Ta.
When President Trump narrowly escaped death in an assassination attempt in July, a bullet grazed the former president's ear and the gunman was a husband, father, and former fire chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Department.50 Killed Cory Comperatore, who was 18 years old. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, also seriously injured two other rally attendees.
Just two months later, on September 15, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was accused of pushing the muzzle of an AK-47 into a chain-link fence outside a place where President Trump was golfing in Florida. was arrested. No shots were fired at President Trump after the Secret Service spotted and opened fire on the potential gunman. The suspect fled and was arrested shortly thereafter.
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Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
