CNN Anchor Calls Trump Out Over Fox News Rant On Charlie Kirk Killing

CNN anchor Dana Bash called out President Donald Trump over his Fox News rant about the killing of activist Charlie Kirk, using a pointed example to counter it.

During a marathon interview on Friday’s edition of Fox & Friends, Trump was asked about bringing the country together in the wake of Kirk’s killing, and responded by defending the “radical right” and assailing the left.

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, Bash played the exchange and rebutted it by citing, among others, the Trump-inspired attack on Paul Pelosi:

DANA BASH: I just want to reiterate, this is on Fox, and he is being asked on Fox how do we come back together?

And his answer, Kristen, was throwing a rhetorical grenade on there. And I just, because facts are important here.

He is not wrong that there has been radicalization on the left. And anybody you talk to who is on the right, either an elected office or somebody like Charlie Kirk, they see it on their social media feeds, they hear it.

But it is also true for people on the left. They’re getting it from those on the right. And it has resulted in some pretty unfortunate violence.

Just one example, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, when a person went into their house, hit him on the head with a hammer after being there for a long time, he was later convicted.

He told the jury he believed the media was lying about former President Trump. We’ve heard that come from very high places in the Republican Party.

He posted links on his Facebook page to multiple videos produced by the MyPillow CEO falsely alleging that the 2020 election was stolen. These things have consequences on both sides of the aisle. Not just the political left.

KRISTEN HOLMES: Of course they have consequences on both sides of the aisle. I think, look, this is all the larger conversation that you guys are just having, which is how do you tone it down, as we heard from the Utah governor. And Donald Trump’s rhetoric this morning, talking about left radicals and that they’re a problem, is not the answer to toning it down.

Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.