“MSNBC Anchor Predicts Trump Camp Might Face Internal Pressure to ‘Tone Down’ Rhetoric After Latest Assassination Attempt!”

MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned Sunday whether former President Donald Trump and his campaign needed to tone down their rhetoric after the 2024 GOP nominee faced an apparent would-be assassin for the second time in three months.

Trump was playing a round and had reportedly just finished the fifth hole at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach when shots were fired, which were later confirmed to be from the scene where Secret Service agents engaged what the FBI is investigating as an assassination attempt on Trump.

At the time of the MSNBC discussion on Sunday’s Alex Witt Reports, the details were still not fully known and there was a question whether Trump had been a target in the incident. Nevertheless, the conversation quickly went to the question of whether Trump’s rhetoric may have played a hand.

Witt asked MSNBC analyst and former Bush administration official Elise Jordan about the political implications ahead, to which Jordan replied that “heated rhetoric” has led to violence “on both sides of the aisle.”

“I think it’s just something that Democrats and Republicans have to be very cognizant about: What can we all do to take the temperature down?”

Witt focused on the idea that it is Trump’s rhetoric is that needs to be cooled, doubtfully asking whether he’d attempt to, or face calls from within to tone down his rhetoric.

Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because he’s gonna reach out to his supporters and say let’s take this down. We do not know the source of any gunshots or gunshots. We do not know who is responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100 percent confirmed from start to finish, how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of the former president?

Jordan replied that the July attempt on Trump’s life briefly cooled the temperature of the country. She said:

Remember back to the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life, where there was talk of a new tone and the Republican convention was, by Trumpian standards, muted. It did seem like he was trying to take it down a few notches, then by the end of the convention speech, we were kind of back to where we started. So I don’t know how long this moment of unity for the country where we come together and we say I don’t want any political opposition to be under threat of violence.