Fox News Panel Unanimously Condemns Trump’s Reaction to Rob Reiner’s Killing: ‘Beneath the Office’

The panel on Monday’s edition of Special Report on Fox News had a rare moment of unanimity in the wake of President Donald Trump’s response to the killing of film director Rob Reiner and his wife.

On Sunday, Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home. Their son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested in connection with the murders.

Rob Reiner was a prominent liberal activist and critic of Trump, who responded by accusing the director of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which, the president claimed, led to the Reiners’ deaths:

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!

Hours later on Special Report, Fox’s Howard Kurtz criticized the president for the comments and said Reiner “was a mensch.”

“Rob Reiner was a very liberal Democrat who had very strong criticism of President Trump,” Kurtz said. “And yet, I have to say,  that for the president of the United States to take this family tragedy in which both Reiner and his wife were killed and say that it’s because of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ I thought was well beneath him and beneath the office. And I think it would have been better if the president had made no comment.”

Bret Baier then played a clip of Reiner condemning the murder of Charlie Kirk in September.

“I unfortunately saw the video of it, and it’s beyond belief what happened to him,” Reiner said at the time. “And that should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable.”

Baier noted to Fox contributor Guy Benson that Trump has received “pushback” from other Republicans.

“As he should,” Benson replied. “There’s a time and place for politics and for trolling. A man being viciously murdered along with his wife, allegedly, at the hand of their own son, is not that time or that place. And for the president to have put this out the way that he did achieves nothing and reflects poorly.”

Baier then noted that Trump did not back away from his comments when asked about them in the Oval Office. The president responded by calling Reiner “deranged.”

“Trump has continued to double down on his comments despite hearing from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have been pretty clear in condemning the president’s tone,” replied Stef Kight of Axios. “And it is unfortunate to have the president of the United States taking a tragedy like this and inserting politics into a situation as sad as the one that led to the Reiners’ death, especially after the year we had, especially after political violence has been such a big issue this year. Whether it was the killing of the state lawmakers in Minnesota earlier this year to the killing of Charlie Kirk, this has been a conversation.”

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