CBS' Margaret Brennan Mourns Trump Didn't "Lower The Temperature" After Getting Shot

Posted • July 14, 2024: CBS’s host of Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan, joined the network’s breaking coverage of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Trump at his Pennsylvania rally, where she was dismayed that a statement from campaign advisor Chris LaCivita might “escalate” Trump’s “us versus the system” rhetoric and that a statement from Trump himself didn’t lower “the temperature” even though once could make a solid case that it did. … Later, in the 9:00 hour, Costa reported on Trump's statement that should have made Brennan happy. The statement read, in part, “nothing is known at this time about the shooter who is now dead.”

In other words, Trump didn’t blame the left, leaving the door open for a “John Hinckley wants to impress Jodie Foster” type of explanation, but Brennan still wasn’t satisfied, “This was a traumatic event, no doubt for him, but I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation here.” (…)

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